Labor Day Weekend highlighted poor driving in Virginia (VA). 13 people were killed in car accidents, nearly double the number killed in 2008, according to WSLS. In addition to the high death toll, nearly 10,000 speeding tickets were administered along with over 2,500 reckless driving citations, 90 drivers arrested for impaired driving, and over 800…
Pitt County resident Ronnie Lee Battle was walking down Memorial Drive and Gum Road in Greenville on a summer day last Sunday when he was suddenly struck by a car. The injury he sustained would later kill him. Trenette Rankins, 28, was driving the vehicle that struck him dead. Battle would be pronounced dead the…
When two Virginia (VA) state police cruisers were struck on Monday, my colleague Jim Lewis wondered whether the state’s new law requiring drivers to slow down or change lanes to give police and emergency workers safe room to work was doing enough. Check out his post on the Norfolk Injuryboard. About the Editors: Shapiro, Washburn…
On August 9, 2009, tow truck driver, Andy Craig Starmer, was hooking up a car to his truck around 8:24 p.m. He was on the shoulder of I-64 when he was hit by Charles Burns, who was driving a Mitsubishi Raider. Starmer was outside of his truck when he was killed. Burns was taken to…
Many states–notably North Carolina (NC) and West Virginia (WV)–permit victims of alcohol-related car accidents and injuries to sue bars and restaurant which served the person who became intoxicated. A unique application of liability under what are commonly known as “dram shop laws” was recently upheld in northern New York (NY). In essence, an appeals court…