By 2013, Amtrak trains will leave from Harbor Park in downtown Norfolk, Virginia (VA), at 5 am and arrive in Washington, DC by 9 am. A return train leaving DC at 3 pm would pull into Norfolk by 7 pm. That’s the plan the passenger rail operator presented to the Hampton Roads Mayors and Chairs and…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s Virginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, Virginia Injuryboard blog in which she highloights findings from a federal study that revealed low-cost, “curbside” buses are seven times more likely to be involved in fatal crashes than are buses operated by, say, Greyhound.. This video…
The wheels on the bus go round and round. This nursery school song may have been sung by some of the younger elementary school students on a school bus in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) right before they were hit by a car. Most parents feel secure that their children will arrive safe at school when their children climb…
In his latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog site, my colleague John C. reports on three local school bus accidents within a single week of October 2011. John notes that the wrecks, which caused only minor injuries, serve as reminders to avoid driving when you’re seriously…
Questions about the training and qualifications of the pilot of a Colgan Air plane that crashed near Buffalo, New York (NY) in 2009, have been raised by attorneys in the course of wrongful death lawsuits brought by family members of the victims. Emails released by plaintiffs’ attorneys state that the pilot had repeatedly failed tests that…