Our Virginia personal injury law firm offers the following information as a public service. Single-vehicle accidents involving animal darting across a highway do not provide grounds for lawsuits. At the same time, animals in the roadway can set the stage for rear-end collisions, sideswipes and head-on crashes. In the interest of keeping everyone safe, we share what…
My Virginia Beach-based personal injury and wrongful death law firm colleagues and I have been slowly updating the hundreds of blog posts, articles and case results on our website. One thing we’ve noticed is how so many posts repeat the same terms when describing what a negligent or reckless driver did to cause a crash….
A two-vehicle crash on the interstate through James City County, Virginia (VA), left one woman dead, another innocent person hospitalized with injuries and one of the drivers facing several criminal charges. The deadly rear-end collision happened shortly before 9 pm on March 27, 2021. State police say the stage for the fatal wreck…
A case that sadly highlights the need to the question whether a person who survives a car crash with injuries can file insurance claims against a driver who died occurred in Franklin County, Virginia (VA). According to news reports, a woman ran off the side of the highway, overcorrected and slammed into an oncoming pickup…
Records compiled by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles show that 124 pedestrians died after being struck by a car, truck or other motor vehicle during 2019. Nearly half (61) of those deadly collision happened while the pedestrian was crossing the road, and one-quarter (34) occurred while the pedestrian was crossing at an intersection. The…