Virginia police officers have pulled over drivers they thought might be drunk only to find the person wasn’t intoxicated, but texting. In 2010 traffic courts in Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach handled 77 cases in which drivers were ticketed for texting while driving cases, according to an analysis of Virginia…
According to a new report released by the Washington Examiner, the number of alcohol- and drug-related traffic accidents has significantly dropped in Virginia over the past five years. In Maryland, the number of drunk driving accidents stayed about the same, while the number of DUI crashes in Washington DC went up slightly. What has Virginia…
In a new posting on the Norfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton Injuryboard my colleague John C. looks at a new study that aims to find out more about distracted driving. The University of South Florida is trying to sign up more than 3,000 people to put cameras in their cars to study their driving over more…
Even as an experienced Virginia personal injury attorney there are still some news stories that elicit an audible response from me as I read them. This was one of those stories. Three children were injured in McDowell County, Virginia (VA) when a coal truck smashed into the church bus they were riding on. How in the…
The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 sets the standards for ensuring that interstate truck and bus drivers meet licensing and safe-driving qualifications. The 25-year-old law also provides authorities for taking unsafe and unqualified commercial drivers off America’s highways. As a Virginia truck accident attorney, I’ve recently seen a jump in the number of…