Last weekend’s stormy weather resulted in hundreds of car accident calls for the Virginia State Police. Falling temperatures led to frozen roads, causing more than 500 crashes on Virginia roads. The beginning of the snowy and icy season often leads to an increase in car…
A Williams & Connolly senior attorney in Washington DC has sued the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority for $50 million, stemming from a Metro station head injury that he claims left him unable to work. The attorney claims that he has not been able to…
One person died and two others were hurt in a rear end crash with a dump truck in Virginia Beach on Dec. 29. Virginia Beach police stated that the dump truck accident happened at 10 am in the 2800 block of Princess Anne Road in…
A 22 year old woman died in a single car accident in Centreville, Virginia on Dec. 22, and a man was charged with DUI for allegedly causing the accident. The alleged DUI driver was speeding in the southbound lane of Ordway Road in Centreville at…
Two people were killed and more than a dozen other victims were injured in a grisly tractor trailer accident in Baltimore when a gas tanker skidded on the icy road and exploded. The fatal truck crash happened early Saturday morning on Interstate 95. Bad weather…
A man in North Carolina who had two DWI convictions on his record was arrested this week for a head on drunk driving crash in Concord that killed a woman and severely injured her passenger. Lydia Christine Velasques died when the alleged drunk driver, John…
Federal law requires hospitals to report any serious injury which was potentially caused by a medical device to the manufacturer of that device within 10 days the injury occurred. Hospitals are also required to notify both the manufacturer and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Richmond, Virginia residents whose lives have been shattered by drunk drivers met on the evening of November 21 to remember their loved ones who have been killed on Virginia’s roads by drunk drivers. Some of the families meet each year under Christmas lights at Lewis…
Two people died in a crash with a tractor trailer on Route 58 West in Suffolk, Virginia on Dec. 1. The Virginia State Police stated that the driver and passenger were driving on Route 58 West when a tractor trailer did not stop at a stop…
Just a day before their Thanksgiving break, a bus holding 35 children crashed into a tree in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Nov. 21, killing six elementary school children and leaving 24 others with injuries ranging from non-life threatening to serious. Local police immediately placed the bus…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) recently ranked the 50 state’s DWI or DUI laws in an annual survey. It concluded that Mississippi has the toughest overall drunk driving laws, and Maryland and Nebraska also come out on top. The report judges the adequacy of each…
The Virginia State Police stated that there was a deadly two car crash in Augusta County VA on Oct. 11 on Route 11 and Stagecoach Road. The police reported that a Toyota 4Runner was driving north on Highway 11 when it drifted into the southbound…