This was almost the case yesterday when on a dare from some friends, a young boy sprinted across a lake near Kempsville’s Chatham Hall Park in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA). His older brother chased after him but the ice broke, plunging the boys into freezing cold water. They had just minutes before hypothermia would…
In his latest post to our firm’s Portsmouth Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog, my colleague John C. notes that a hit-and-run driver took the life of a man walking along Victory Boulevard on January 4, 2011. As John notes, “a pedestrian has no protection against a car, truck or SUV.” EJL
A chair lift at Sugarloaf Ski Resort, located in Maine, derailed causing eight people to fall to the ground and suffer serious injuries. The chair lift, Spillway East, was 35 years old and scheduled for maintenance improvements, according to The Virginian-Pilot. Some of the injured individuals were children. Five chairs fell in all. Fortunately, the…
A Friday morning New Year’s Eve explosion inside an auto parts plant in Blacksburg, Virginia (VA) injured four contract workers, including two who face potentially life-threatening injuries, reports The Virginian-Pilot. Our thoughts go out to the injured workers and their families. I’m sure they were expecting to finish a hard day’s work and then enjoy…
Most boating accidents are avoidable or preventable, at the very least. So I was surprised to hear that a York County man drowned early Monday morning in Poquoson, Virginia (VA) after the boat he was in capsized. According to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission , the victim was duck hunting with another man on the…