This month we discussed a new report about the dangers of oil company trucks – and how oil the oil industry’s lack of safety regulations is leading to high numbers of traffic accident fatalities and injuries across the country. Let’s take a closer look at why oil trucks keep causing accidents in Virginia: Fatigue. Oil…
A truck heading north on Virginia Route 8/Riner Road in Montgomery County, VA, slammed head on into an SUV and another truck. The accdent near the junction with Smith Creek Road sent three people to hospitals, with one victim being taken to the New River Valley Medical Center and the other two being flown by…
The number of catastrophic traumatic brain injuries among United States high school football players broke records in 2011 according to a recent report.
A rear-end collision on I-64 in Albermarle County, Virginia (VA), near the town of Keswick left one person dead and three others injured. According to WVIR-TV NBC 29, the vitims were in a Subaru Outback when a Lincoln Town Car hit them from behind and forced their vehicle off the road. The impact sent the…
A jury awarded $78.5 million to a mother whose 3-year-old son suffers from cerebral palsy. Jurors determined that faulty diagnostic procedures at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center inear Philadelphia caused the boy to be deprived of oxygen during labor. Evidence presented during trial indicated that the mother-to-be arrived at the hospital with signs of complications, and…