Google “drunk driving statistics” and one of the first hits you’ll get is a summary of federal data that states that in 2009, “an estimated 10,839 people … died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32 percent of all traffic deaths.” Add in the number of U.S. traffic fatalities caused by people…
Only the good die young, although not true in every situation it certainly rings true for Jazmine Foreman, a vivacious young woman who had just graduated with honors from Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) only days before a terrible car accident took her life. As a Virginia personal injury attorney, as well as…
Norfolk Southern has begun construction on its new $95 million rail facility in Birmingham, Alabama (AL). According to Inside Business, the Birmingham Regional Intermodal facility is the first stop along Norfolk Southern’s 2,500-mile Crescent Corridor, which runs from Louisiana to New Jersey and New York. The 316-acre site will serve as a transfer station where…
A toddler girl who fell from a fifth-floor balcony at Sandcastle Oceanfront Resort Hotel in Virginia Beach, VA, died in June 2011, according to the Virginian-Pilot. The girl, whose family lived in Staunton, Virginia, fell from a balcony when she was playing with an inflatable toy while two adult relatives supervised. The toy became wedged…
A teenaged cheerleader was seriously injured in a Virginia Beach, VA, drinking and driving crash. The 18-year-old driver has been charged with DUI and illegal possession of alcohol following a crash on June 16, 2011, in which his car ended up hitting a tree alongside Revere Drive in the Salem Woods community of Virginia Beach,…