Road Rage Driver Sentenced
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney These days, road rage seems to be an every day occurrence. Tractor-trailer drivers often bear the brunt of it from impatient or angry motorists. This time the road rage was more than angry words. An angry driver rammed a pickup truck with his vehicle on Interstate 70 in January, [...]
December 6, 2010
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Virginia Truck Driver Receives Compensation For Injury
By John Cooper, Personal Injury Attorney Many times when we hear of a big rig accident we often assume the truck driver is at fault. Sometimes truck drivers can also be victims of other’s negligence. In this case a hard working truck driver was in a crash that involved another tractor-trailer. However, the at-fault driver [...]
November 15, 2010
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The Steps We Take to Build Your Personal Injury or Wrongful Death Case
Our firm has been asked to look into what initially appeared to be a mysterious death or loss of life in a commercial truck accident. Sometimes, family members have only suspicion but not much hard evidence. They ask us to uncover the truth about what caused the accidental or unexpected death of their loved one. [...]
June 28, 2010
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Truck Tire Smashes into Minivan Killing Driver in Henrico County
By Rick Shapiro, Virginia Truck Wreck Lawyer If there was any doubt about the level of risk we all face while sharing the highway with big rigs and other large commercial trucks, the recent accident in Henrico County, Virginia (VA) illustrates what can happen when something goes wrong with a large commercial truck. A big [...]
May 24, 2010
Tags: 18 wheeler, accident, attorney, big rig, Henrico County, I-64, Shapiro, tire, truck, trucks, VA, wheel base, wreck, wrongful death Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics One Comment
One Dead in Virginia I-495 Tractor Trailer Accident
By John Cooper, Truck Accident Lawyer Elizabeth P. Lyman of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (MA) was driving her Plymouth Voyager on Interstate 495 (I-495) when she decided to pull off the side of the road at the Springfield interchange in Fairfax, Virginia (VA), according to wusa9.com. Tragically, she would never make it to her destination. A tractor [...]
April 13, 2010
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Trucks Need to Watch Out for “Brake”down
By Richard N. Shapiro, Attorney Poorly adjusted brakes are one of the leading causes for major commercial truck wrecks in the United States. Our firm recently blogged about a trucker getting seriously injured after their brakes failed on U.S. Highway 52.Unfortunately, the trucking industry doesn’t appear to take this safety issue seriously since defective brakes were the [...]
January 16, 2010
Tags: accident, attorney, brakes, crash, defective, injury, Shapiro, statute, truck, trucker, wreck, wrongful death Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
