In his latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury blog, my colleague John C. registers his interest in a proposal to build a unique public transportation system known as personal rapid transit in the city. The system would feature pod cars running along raised tracks. A primary advantage that…
In a 2009 interview with the New York Times, Virginia Tech biomechanical engineering professor Stefan Duma shared this fact: “More pregnant women die in car crashes than in birthing complications.” Duma explained that steering wheel impacts with the larger-than-normal abdomens and chests of woman carrying children account for a majority of the traffic crash fatalities….
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI’s) received in accidents can make life difficult in ways that you never imagined. Suddenly, tasks you once did with ease are difficult, if not impossible. You may even need additional help in your daily life when you suffer these types of injuries. Since 2007, the Alexandria Veterans Affairs Medical Center in…
The Point Pleasant Register reported that a West Virginia (WV) DJ was injured in a two-vehicle crash on the morning of Friday, January 28, 2011. The accident occurred on Ohio 7 in Kanauga, Ohio at approximately 5:45 am. Radio personality Tom Payne sustained severe injuries. Payne is the morning DJ for WBYG-FM in Point Pleasant, WV….
While traveling on the highway, my client, then 33 weeks pregnant, was involved in a chain reaction car wreck because of a distracted driver. My client was in the middle of the reaction and as a result of the impact she went into early labor. Her son was born seven weeks early and he was…