An early morning crash in Elizabeth City, North Carolina (NC), on Valentine’s Day 2022 left a pedestrian hospitalized and a driver facing felony charges. The collision happened near the intersection of North Hughes Boulevard and Beech Street. Elizabeth City Police responded to the scene at 6:15 am and found a 30-year-old pedestrian in the roadway…
A tractor-trailer operator from Suffolk, Virginia (VA), died after his truck was struck by a car and ran off a rural highway in North Carolina. The deadly head-on collision happened at around 5:45 am on February 9, 2022. When troopers with the NC Highway Patrol responded to the scene of the crash near the interchanges…
A head-on collision in Perquimans County, North Carolina (NC), left a 71-year-old man dead and the other driver facing felony charges. The deadly crash happened east of the town of Hertford on the afternoon of January 17, 2022, and State Highway Patrol investigators believe drug or alcohol use played a role. Emergency personnel responded to…
Distracted driving is a major threat to road safety and there is no bigger distraction than cell phones. Far too many people are texting behind the wheel of a vehicle and the results can be disastrous. At Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp, we represent victims who have been injured in car accidents caused by distracted drivers….
A 29-year-old Virginia woman was killed over Labor Day weekend in an Outer Banks boating accident. According to a spokesperson from N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Law Enforcement, the incident happened around 2 p.m. in Hatteras Inlet near the ferry dock on the north end of Ocracoke Island. The woman was in a rented boat that…