After a Minnesota man driving a 1996 Toyota Camry crashed into and killed a driver and two passengers in another car in 2006, the man was sentenced to eight years in prison for vehicular homicide. The man has maintained since the day of the accident that his car unexpectedly sped up as he travelled up…
A study conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed glass cockpit technology has not significantly improved the safety of small airplanes, according to avweb.com. The advent of glass cockpits occurred in the 90s when LCD panels were favored over traditional panels with manual instruments and controls due to apparent increases in efficiency, reliability,…
In her latest post to the Virginia Beach Legal Examiner, my colleague Emily Mapp Brannon notes with sadness that a student at Kempsville High School student died in a DUI accident early in the morning of March 7, 2010. The driver behind the wheel in the single-car crash was another teen. Emily discusses the terrible…
Killing three teen girls, a train struck them on a Melbourne, Florida bridge where they had little time to react and nowhere to go in order to get out of its path. This is certainly a tragic accident that should not of happened. Although we did not know the girls involved in this railroad accident,…
A Temple University student, who was also the co-captain of the university’s Bhangra dance team, lost her life in a car accident over the weekend when she was ejected from the backseat of a van. Kammini Rajoopath, 21, and her dance team were headed to a competition in Durham, N.C. Fellow dancer Bilal Badruddin, 20, was driving….