A nightmare scenario played out in real life on April 9, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NC). According to police and witness accounts, a woman driving a Nissan Pathfinder hit a pedestrian near the intersection of North Cleveland Avenue and E. 25th Street then drove on for almost 3 miles with the man trapped under the…
“Distracted driving awareness” reads like an oxymoron, but nothing a driver does behind the wheel is more important than recognizing and minimizing things that take his or her eyes and mind off the road. Distractions for drivers have been listed often enough that everyone should know talking on a cell phone, texting, eating, reading a…
If you’re texting, you’re not driving. This is the message put out by The U.S. Department of Transportation about the dangers of distracted driving. A visually shocking new video shows exactly what happens when a driver takes their eyes off the road. According to the DOT, 27 percent of distracted drivers in fatal crashes are…
The name is a mouthful, and the suffering caused by the condition can last a lifetime. With car and truck crashes being a leading cause of myofascial pain syndrome, it’s little wonder that my personal injury and car accident lawyer colleagues and I have become very familiar with the problem. As the video below describes,…
A disturbing hit-and-run pedestrian car accident that occurred recently in Newport News, Virginia (VA) reminds us that walking or jogging along the road can be dangerous. In this case the car accident seems to be intentional, the driver slowly followed the woman then turned and hit her, but most times it is not. In many…