According to a new study more than 20 percent of patients who sought a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic – known as one of the country’s premier medical institutions – had been misdiagnosed by their primary care physicians. Getting a Second Opinion The study, which has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in…
A 56-year old man from St. Louis, Va. was killed last week when a tractor-trailer plowed into the motorcycle the victim was driving. The fatal crash occurred at the intersection of Carpers Pike (Va. 259) and Northwestern Pike (U.S. 50) in Gore. According to details released by law enforcement, the truck driver, a 58-year-old New…
A female pedestrian died from injuries she suffered in an early morning crash in Hampton, Virginia (VA). The at-fault driver fled the scene of the fatal wreck in the 400 block of Woodview Lane, and police are asking anyone who knows him or the whereabouts of the 2008 cream-colored Dodge Charger he was driving to…
A crash between a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle near Richmond, Virginia (VA), left the motorcyclist dead. The fatal collision happened near an entrance to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens on Lakeside Avenue in Henrico County a little after 6 pm on April 9, 2017. Investigators did not release details on the cause of…
Mechanical failure is a leading cause of truck accidents in this country. According to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), one of the most common – and deadly – type of mechanical failure that occurs in truck accidents is brake failure. In one study conducted by the DOT,…