A 73-year-old man from Franklin, Virginia (VA) was standing by his Ford Taurus on Interstate 95 (I-95) early in the morning (around 4:15am) on March 15 when a terrible accident occurred. Another car drove by and slammed into both the Taurus and the 73-year-old man, according to Tidewaternews.com. If that wasn’t bad enough, the at-fault…
Rain and darkness may have contributed to a fatal pedestrian accident in Suffolk in which an SUV struck a woman using a wheelchair to cross a busy street. My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon notes in her latest post to the Norfolk Injuryboard, however, that other factors may have played roles in the accident. Drivers are…
Lara Reid and Lana Barringer, the wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) were seriously injured in a major car wreck on Interstate 95 (I-95). Mrs. Reid suffered a broken neck, broken back and broken nose, according to justicenewsflash.com. Both Mrs. Reid and her daughter received medical treatment at Inova Fairfax Hospital…
The Daily Press on March 12, 2010, posted an AP article titled “Tenn. Man Stopped for Suspected DUI for 10th Time, Tells Police, ‘Do What You Gotta Do’” to the Weird News section of its Web site. Ha hah ha. Right? Wrong. Clicking over to the fuller local report of this shocking incident published by…
A Circuit Court Judge ordered Jim Lentz, president of the U.S. side of Toyota and Yoshi Inaba, CEO and chairman of the car company to appear for depositions. Both Mr. Lentz and Mr. Inaba recently appeared before Congress to testify about the sudden acceleration problems found in many of their most popular cars including the…