When I drive around Hampton Roads, Virginia, I am amazed at how many cars are stopped in the road blocking up traffic. A recent personal injury case reminded me how a car obstructing the highway can lead to disaster. A stalled vehicle on U.S. Route 58 caused a tractor-trailer to swerve into another lane to…
In his latest post to our personal injury law firm’s Virginia Beach Injurboard blog site, my colleage Randy Appleton looks at a novel approach to identifyin poor drivers and correcting their mistakes behind the wheel. A doctor in China has spent nearly 30 years studying why some drivers are better than others. Read more about…
A nine-months-pregnant woman survived a car collision in Maryland (MD) only to see her baby born stillborn the next day. The mother was driving a Saturn on July 15, 2011, when the collision occurred at around 11:15 pm, in Towson, Md, CockeysvillePatch.com reported. A passenger in the Saturn sustained non-life threatening injuries. They were both…
This week alone, there have been two different fatal single-vehicle accidents around the Williamsburg, Virginia (VA) area. The newest one occurred on July 15, 2011. This time, the accident was caused when a tire that blew out causing a truck to flip while it towed a camper. The driver and father of the family died and his wife,…
Police are investigating a crash in July 2011 that left one person dead and two injured in Suffolk, VA, when the car fled after an officer tried to stop it for a traffic violation in the 1500 block of Holland Road, according to he Virginian-Pilot. One of the car’s passengers, a 36-year-old Franklin, Virginia woman,…