Washington DC Head-On Collision Kills Two
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney A head-on collision can affect even the most seasoned professional driver. In northwest Washington D.C. a wrong way driver has killed two people, reports police. The accident occurred on Canal Road near Clark Place early Friday morning. The at-fault driver lost control of his Jaguar. The vehicle slid across the road and [...]
January 18, 2011
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Firefighter Killed By Big Rig
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney When we hear in the news that a fire fighter has been killed, we expect it to be while in the line of duty, not in a car accident. So I was surprised and saddened to learn of the death of a Clifton Forge Firefighter, Mr. Ashley Weikle. Ashley [...]
December 6, 2010
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DWI/DUI Driver Kills Pedestrian
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney A man driving drunk in a box type truck first ran into a pawn shop and then into a pedestrian. I don’t think it would have mattered if this man was driving a Ford Focus, he would have still hurt people. Find out more. About the Editors: Shapiro, Cooper Lewis [...]
December 2, 2010
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North Carolina (NC) Police Fed up with Careless Truck Drivers, Create Operation Road Watch
By: Randy Appleton, Trucking Injury Attorney Aggressive driving and unsecured loads are just a few of the things that North Carolina State Troopers are trying to protect motorists from. Find out how they plan to do it. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
September 4, 2010
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Tractor-trailer Jackknifes into Van Filled with Disabled Passengers Killing Four
by Jim Lewis Although the roads and highways along Virginia’s I-81, I-64 or I-66 have not reported any recent bad tractor trailer accidents, there was one in Springfield, Ohio today. A tractor-trailer jackknifed on icy road conditions and slammed into a van filled with disabled passengers that were being transported. The big rig swerved into [...]
January 8, 2010
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Bereaved Albemarle County Family Awarded $5.25M in Tractor Trailer Death Lawsuit
by John Cooper An Albemarle County jury awarded a bereaved family $5.25 million for the loss of their precious 16 year old daughter who had been killed last year when a tractor trailer ran a red light and slamming into the car she was driving. The jury’s verdict was decided with only 3 hours of [...]
November 16, 2009
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Fatal Tractor Trailer Wreck in Newington, Virginia Kills One on I-95
by Emily Mapp Brannon The traffic on the northbound lanes of I-95 in Newington, VA was shut down last week when an accident involving a passenger vehicle and a tractor trailer caused the death of at least one person and injured two others. Officials have stated that a Hyundai and a tractor trailer were involved [...]
November 12, 2009
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Virginia Beach Man Killed as Passenger in Fed Ex Truck Roll-Over
by Richard N. Shapiro Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton It what can only be described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, tragically a passenger riding along in a Fed Ex truck was killed last week when the vehicle overturned on Fentress Airfield Road. Virginia Beach Police have identified the victim of [...]
October 7, 2009
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Deadly Tractor Trailer Crash on I-85 in Davidson County Kills Car Driver
In a manner not uncommon to most tractor trailer wrecks, one person has been left dead when an 18 wheeler smashed into the back of a car on southbound Interstate 85. According to authorities, it appears that the car had stopped in the southbound lanes near Exit 91 in Davidson County. The big rig crashed [...]
September 23, 2009
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Virginia’s Southbound I-85 Closed for 6 Hours after Fatal Tractor -Trailer Wreck
In a fiery big rig crash, a tractor-trailer driver was killed on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County and has been identified as an Arkansas man. The Virginia State Police identified the driver as Danny Ray Parks, 47, of Batesville, Arkansas. The victim, Bates, crashed his tractor-trailer into the back of another tractor-trailer causing a rear-end [...]
September 14, 2009
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