Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Virginia (VA) Cities May Be Responsible For Injuries

  John Cooper | September 18, 2007 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Authored by: John M. CooperAs a personal injury attorney practicing in Hampton Roads, Virginia (VA), I am all too aware of the special rules that apply to injuries caused by a city employee. Under some circumstances a city employee can be held responsible for bad driving or other negligence, but sometimes a special law called sovereign immunity prevents the injured person from making a claim...

• Stunt Plane Pilot Crashes and Dies Before Air Show

  Jenny Albano | September 08, 2007 1:11 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Friday, September 7, a stunt plane crashed just hours before an air show. The pilot was practicing his stunts when the plane crashed; the pilot did not survive.Jan Wildbergh, the flight leader with the Skytypers Air Show Team, died following the crash at the Oceana Naval Air Station.The pilots in the show had just finished their routine and were landing when the last plane, No 6, crashed. A...

• One Woman Is Dead After A Collision With A Mack Truck

  John Cooper | August 23, 2007 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Authored by: John CooperThe driver of a Toyota Camry was confirmed dead at the scene by Norfolk, Virginia (VA) police officers Monday morning after her car collided with a Mack truck hauling dirt. The accident happened at the intersection of 27th Street and Llewellyn Avenue. Reports indicate that the trucked which was headed west on 27th Street, pushed the car that was southbound on Llewellyn...

• Fairfax, Virginia (VA) Man Paralyzed for Life in Accident

  John Cooper | July 11, 2007 2:14 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to a published article in the Virginia Lawyers Weekly, on December 27, 2005 at 3:45 am, Jerome Stewart of Fairfax County, Virginia (VA) was in an accident that left him a quadriplegic. A garbage truck, owned by Potomac Disposal Services of Virginia LLC, collided with Stewart's 1990 Jeep Cherokee while he delivered The Washington Post. His spinal cord at level C5-C6 was...

• Seatbelts Reduce Death and Serious Injury in Car Crashes

  John Cooper | June 27, 2007 9:00 AM | 1 CommentNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In May, 2007, another annual click it or ticket campaign occurred. The Virginia click it or ticket program is trying to improve statewide safety belt compliance which is currently 78.6%. The goal for Virginia (VA) is to get the rate of people wearing their seatbelts up to 82%. North Carolina (NC) has been ahead of Virginia (VA) on seatbelt usage, having a rate of 86.7% of its motorist...

• Head restraint systems in some minivans perform poorly

  John Cooper | June 22, 2007 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently looked at 6 different minivans and found that those in the Ford 2006 Nissan Quest, the 2005-2006 Toyota Siena and the 2004-2006 Mazda MPV among others failed to give efficient head support in the event of a whip lash injury. The test measured the effects of rear end collisions at relatively low speeds and found that the necks of the test...

• Virginians can't sue bar over drunk driver

  John Cooper | June 13, 2007 3:34 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There is a law in Virginia (VA) called the Dram Shop Law that provides immunity to bar owners and other commercial establishments who serve alcohol to a patron who ends up harming someone on the road as a drunk driver. The same immunity protects individuals who throw parties in their homes even when they knowingly serve too much to drink to an intoxicated person who kills someone with their car....

• Hampton Roads, Virginia (VA) is one region regarding injury law

  John Cooper | June 11, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For some folks in Tidewater, Virginia (VA) it is a matter of pride that they are from Portsmouth, Virginia (VA) v. Newport News, Virginia (VA), v. Smithfield, Virginia (VA). When it comes to car wreck cases though, it makes no difference whether your injury lawyer works in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, or Suffolk, Virginia (VA). The key is to get the best auto accident attorney available. In a...

• Seven motorists died in 2 crashes in western Virginia

  John Cooper | June 05, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to recent published reports from the Associated Press, a Georgia family had 4 people killed when their car went off Interstate 81 near Salem, Virginia (VA), and overturned. According to the Virginia State Police, the wreck occurred in the early morning hours. These 4 highway fatalities happened only a half a day after 3 other people died in a head on collision in Bedford County,...

• Motorcycle and Bicycle Injuries Among the Worst

  John Cooper | May 19, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the Virginian Pilot on Sunday, May 13, 2007, there was a piece that a 22 year old motorcyclist was killed in a wreck. The accident happened in Norfolk, Virginia (VA) on Saturday and the young man died in a local hospital the next day. The driver that hit the motorcyclist has not been charged and the cause has not been determined.Our firm, Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton, P.C.,...