The next time you have car trouble and are forced to pull over on the interstate, remember this: The side of the road is a corridor of danger that even trained police officers and emergency personal avoid at all costs. Recently, a woman was killed while attempting to change a flat tire on the High Rise…
In his latest post to our personal injury law firm’s Virginia Beach Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro takes state and local governments to task for enacting and upholding laws that place arbitrary statutory limits on the monetary damages they must pay to injury and wrongful death victims when the governments are at fault for…
A husband and wife and their 8-year-old son were enjoying a ride in their Toyota Avalon sedan when tragedy struck. The driver of a Toyota pickup truck swerved into their lane on Vint Hill Road near Route 652 in Fauquier County, Virginia (VA), and slammed head-on into the family’s car. The child and his mother…
A pedestrian was enjoying a morning walk with his dog when his life came to a sudden end. Investigators have determined that the vehicle responsible for the deadly crash was traveling westbound on Lynnhaven Parkway when it went off the road and hit the pedestrian, a 40-year-old native of Virginia Beach, VA, according to wtkr.com. The…
Mining, which incldes oil drilling, has long been considered one of America’s most dangerous jobs. It appears to be getting even riskier. As a study on 2010 workplace safety by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, major disasters at a coal mine in West Virginia (WV) and on board a Gulf of Mexico oil…