In April 2018, leading pharmacy trade magazine Drug Topics published a feature titled “Your 10 Worst Pharmacy Mistakes.” One pharmacists wrote about directing a parent to give a child a teaspoon of an opioid-infused cough suppressant instead of 1 milliliter. The mistake resulted in the…
The manufacturer of the motorized room partition that killed a nine year old boy in Alexandria, VA stated this month that the product was working properly at the time of the accident. The boy was killed after he was crushed between a wall and a…
A 21 month old girl whose mother died while crossing a street in Florida during an illegal street race passed away in late May. The little girl was being pushed in her stroller by her mother across Bayshore Blvd. in Tampa when both were hit…
A tow truck driver suffered serious injuries in the early morning hours of April 15 when a car on I-395 outside Washington DC lost control and hit him as he was attending to a disabled vehicle. Virginia State Police said the tow truck driver was…
A teenager in Bedford County, Virginia is fighting for his life after a May 6 car accident. A family member of the 18 year old reported on social media that he is in a coma after he and six others under the age of 21…
New data out of Virginia shows distracted driving in the Commonwealth was the major cause of 26,123 car accidents in the state in 2017. This means approximately 20% of all crashes in the state are caused by a driver looking at a smartphone or being…
A federal judge in Martinsburg, WV awarded $7.1 million recently to a woman and her young daughter in a medical negligence lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged the child suffered serious brain damage because of improper treatment during child birth. A 26 page bench trial order found…
A fatal accident between two tractor trailers on April 5 is being investigated by the Virginia State Police. News reports state the crash happened in Smyth County on I-81 when one truck going north did not brake for traffic that had slowed in a work…
A fatal drunk driving crash happened on the evening of April 8 in Greenville, South Carolina. The South Carolina Highway Patrol stated the deadly accident happened at South Pleasantburg Drive at Augusta Road. Troopers stated a 1999 Toyota was going north on South Pleasantburg and…
There have been three traffic accidents in Morgantown, West Virginia this year involving cars and pedestrians, and one of them was fatal. This has put Morgantown law enforcement on high alert. According to Chief of Police Ed Preston in Morgantown, everyone who is driving and…
A blown car tire turned into a chain-reaction pedestrian crash involving an ambulance on the interstate through Louisa County, Virginia (VA). The reported details indicate that the driver of a second car deserves blame for the wreck, but the completed police report will draw close…
Two people in West Virginia were killed Saturday night in a wrong-way crash on I-77. The married couple were hit in their vehicle at 5 PM on I-77 south in Kanawha County. The other driver was identified as a 77 year old female from Kentucky.…