I recently settled a case involving a pregnant woman who was in a car wreck. As a result of the car crash, my client delivered her baby about seven weeks early. The newborn had to remain in the hospital until he reached 36 weeks of development. It appears the baby is doing very well. However, there is…
Easy to miss in news of wars, natural disasters and budget crises in countries around the world was an announcement from the National Highway Transportation Administration that deaths from car, truck and motorcycle accidents reached an all-time low during 2010. The 3 percent year-to-year decrease in fatal traffic crashes to 32, 788 was the fewest…
In his latest post to our firm’s Eastern Shore Virginia Injury Attorneys Blog, my colleague Kevin Duffan reports that two brothers who lived on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (VA) lost their lives in a head-on collision on the Chincoteague Causeway on Va. 175. The driver and passenger in the other crash involved in the…
In her latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car Accident Injury Lawyers blog, my colleague Emily Mapp Brannon reports on a crash on Route 17 in Gloucester, Virginia (VA), that sent four SUV drivers and one car driver to the hospital with injuries. Emily notes that while investigators have not announced the cause…
A car has plunged off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia (VA), the first time such a crash has occurred on the structure in five years. After a full day of looking by air, by boat and under water, searchers found the vehicle that plunged into the Chesapeake Bay and recovered the body of its…