Randy Appleton has decades of experience practicing personal injury law. He has handled complex injury lawsuits in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
A Virginian is facing charges after a drunk driving crash that killed two Lancaster County, Pennsylvania men. The 30 year old man was charged in Pennsylvania with two counts of vehicular homicide while DUI and other charges related to a Sept. 10, 2017 crash on…
The SUV driver who hit and killed an infant in a stroller in Lansdowne, Virginia in a crosswalk was sentenced this month to a year in jail. The sentence was the maximum that the 47 year old Leesburg man could receive under state law. Prosecutors…
Approximately 16 students were taken to the hospital in Gilmer County, Georgia on Jan 22 when their school bus flipped onto its side in a one-vehicle accident. The sheriff’s office in Gilmer County stated that the accident occurred on Yukon Road after 3 PM. The…
Judge John Hatcher in Fayetteville, West Virginia gave the harshest sentence possible under state law on Dec. 28 to a young woman who was driving under the influence of drugs when she killed a married couple on June 18, 2015 near Glen Jean, West Virginia.…
What happens in fatal car wrecks? Like most other states, North Carolina has a wrongful death statute. Under this law, an experienced attorney can provide a family compensation for their loss. Direct economic losses in wrongful death cases are compensable. These items include funeral and…
Two people were fatally injured in a crash that shut down Route 340 in Crimora, Virginia on November 26. The Virginia State Police reported that a Toyota 4Runner was going south on the highway when it crossed the center line and slammed into a Ford…
A tractor-trailer driver that was blamed for a deadly truck crash that killed a woman from Spotsylvania County, Virginia will be charged in the accident. The Virginia State Police reported this week that the 62-year-old truck driver from Georgia will be charged with involuntary manslaughter and…
A 20-year-old woman in Fort Wayne, Indiana who allegedly was drunk when she drove a boat that spun out of control on Lake Gage in July, will face a criminal trial in 2018. Dominique M. Effinger, 20, will be in court from May 21-25, 2018…
The I-264/I-64 interchange in Hampton Roads, Virginia is the busiest in the Hampton Roads area, and the second-busiest in the state. It also has the highest number of recorded accidents for 2017 in Virginia. Specifically, the point where I-64 eastbound merges with I-264 is where…
A 23-year-old man from Poquoson, Virginia was released from the hospital on Oct. 11 and was charged for a September 17 DUI crash that killed his passenger. The Virginia State Police reported that the deadly DUI crash happened at 3:30 AM on I-64 eastbound near…
Loudoun County, Virginia police are looking for a driver that fled the scene of a fatal crash in Virginia on Oct. 18. At six am that morning, police officers responded to an apparent one-vehicle accident at Pebble Run Place and Overland Drive in Loudoun County.…
An involuntary manslaughter charge has been filed against a woman in Stafford County, Virginia after she drove the wrong way on US 17. The Virginia State Police reported that the 29-year-old female driver was driving south in the northbound lanes of US 17 near Richlands…