A passenger ejected from and trapped under a car that rammed into a guardrail in the 2200 block of East Washington Street in Suffolk, Virginia (VA), was medevaced to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital late on the night of January 17, 2012. What caused the single-vehicle accident is not yet known because the driver fled the…
A Charleston, West Virginia (WV), man has a warrant out for his arrest after he fled the hospital after causing a car accident that badly injured another driver. The wreck took place at the intersection of Spring Street and Kenawha Terrace in St. Albans. According to the Charleston Gazette, the man made a left-hand turn…
It appears that the Italian subsidiary of Carnival Cruise Lines will be facing hundreds of personal injury lawsuits and wrongful death claims over the unexplained acts of the captain of the Costa Concordia. Capt. Francesco Schettino steamed the cruise liner to within about 300 meters of a small island, ripped a hole in the hull on…
A medical center in Minneapolis, Minnesota (MN), has reduced medical errors by simply making sure that pharmacists participated in the patient discharge process. Officials decided to seriously look at pharmacy errors after they spot-checked perscriptions for 37 patients sent home from the hospital over a 3-months and found errors in 92 percent of the medication…
A total of 10 elementary, middle and high school students went to hospitals on January 17, 2012, for treatment of injuries they sustained when the school bus carrying them crashed at the intersection of Highway 135 and East A Avenue in Easley, South Carolina (SC). The full details of the accident have not been reported,…