In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard, my colleague John C. notes that safety concerns have increased as Old Dominion University has grown to nearly 25,000 students, faculty members and other staff. Keeping students in dorms safe must be a priority for school officials, John writes.EJL
Two people were killed in a mid-air crash involving a private medical helicopter and a small airplane near Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport in Augusta County in Virginia State. The occupants of the helicopter did not suffer any injuries and there were not any patients onboard the helicopter. However, sadly, the two occupants onboard the small…
An emergency beacon that came loose from its mounting and antenna may have cost former Sen. Ted Stevens and four other passengers their lives in a plane that crashed in rural Alaska in August 2010. The National Transportation Safety Board announced this finding on January 5, 2010. At the same time, the board recommended that…
Lucky passengers on an Amtrak train are back on track after a collision at a North Carolina railroad crossing sliced apart a stuck tractor-trailer rig. Police say the truck got stuck on the tracks Tuesday in Kings Mountain, about 30 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina (NC). Officers tried to notify Amtrak, but were too…
This was almost the case yesterday when on a dare from some friends, a young boy sprinted across a lake near Kempsville’s Chatham Hall Park in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA). His older brother chased after him but the ice broke, plunging the boys into freezing cold water. They had just minutes before hypothermia would…