Posts tagged car accidents

• Teen Dies in 4-Wheeler crash on Glenn Highway

  Mike Schneider | July 27, 2007 12:46 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Anchorage youth lost control of the four-wheeler he was operating at about mile 155 of the Glenn Highway. It slid onto the Glenn, and into the path of another vehicle. Despite wearing a helmet, the young man later died of his injuries. All in the other vehicle were belted. They were treated and released. The fatal crash occured last Friday.For more information on this subject, please...

• Driver in Ketchikan Fatality Won't Be Charged

  Jane Schneider | November 19, 2007 12:46 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The driver, Robert Elliott, 39, of a "Ketchikan Duck Tour" vehicle won't be criminally charged as a result of a pedestrian collision that took the life of Californian, Myong S. Thayer last summer. Thayer stepped in front of the vehicle while it was stopped on the dock. She was standing in its blind spot. She died at the scene of the serious injuries she sustained when the vehicle was moved...

• No Seat Belt Worn by Driver In Fatal Crash

  Jane Schneider | September 14, 2007 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Tuesday, 9/11/07, the non-belted driver of a vehicle that crashed into the woods at mile 108 of the Seward Highway was found dead in his vehicle. The results of toxicology tests are pending. Alaska has a mandatory seat belt law.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

• Young Driver Causes Brain Damage: Leaves Scene

  Mike Schneider | July 23, 2007 12:05 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A sixteen-year-old driver with no more than a learner's permit tried to enter the Seward Highway from Brayton drive. Other drivers tried to avoid him. The crash that followed left a young woman with brain damage. The young driver left the scene but was later located. The law required that those driving on a learner's permit be in the company of an adult licensed driver. The sixteen-year-old...

• Why You Need Uninsured Motorist Insurance

  Ward Merdes | February 07, 2009 7:37 PM | 1 CommentFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After twenty years representing people who are injured and killed in motor vehicle wrecks, I've learned a thing-or-two. The most important one - for you - is to buy the right automobile insurance....

• Crash Leaves One Dead, One Seriously Injured

  Jane Schneider | March 31, 2008 12:32 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  3/9/08 at 8:30 p.m. witnesses reported that Marie Niemeic was westbound in the eastbound lanes of O'Maley Road between the Old Seward Highway and C street. The head on collision she caused with Ashley Goldman left Goldman seriously injured and Niemeic dead. Goldman will need a good attorney to help her through the legal maize.Unless Niemeic's insurance company voluntarily pays its liability...

• Crash On Glenn Highway Kills Three

  Jane Schneider | January 14, 2008 12:37 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Allan Chase Sr., 71, His wife Sophia, 68, and their granddaughter, Melissa Pike, 16, all died of their serious injuries suffered in a three-car crash, about a mile north of the Parks Highway intersection, Saturday. The crash was caused by Joshua Swigart, 26, of Anchorage, who, like his passenger, was uninjured. Swigart's pickup crossed the center line and sideswiped the Chase vehicle, causing...

• Driver Dead of Injuries In Sterling Highway Crash

  Jane Schneider | January 07, 2008 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  David Chapman, 43, was northbound on the Sterling Highway near mile 85 when his vehicle fishtailed on the icy road when he attempted to stop for a vehicle in front of him turning west. He slid into the oncoming lane and was hit by a southbound tractor trailer. Chapman was pronounced dead at the scene. Unless the turning vehicle stopped abruptly and without warning, there is little Chapman's...

• Driver Dead After Losing Control on Knik-Goose Bay Road

  Jane Schneider | January 04, 2008 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Just before 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Kathryn Gilgus was Northbound on the Knik-Goose Bay Road. She lost control on an icy curve and was hit head on by a vehicle driven by Richard Tingstad of Wasilla. Gilgus died of her injuries. If Tingstad was seriously injured, he could use the help of an experienced personal injury attorney. He could claim the limits of Gilgus' liability coverage. If he...

• Head On Crash Takes Life on Kenai

  Jane Schneider | December 07, 2007 12:06 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Late Saturday night Ashley Falgout, 63, was driving Northbound on the Kenai Spur Highway close to its intersection with Thunder Road. 46 year old Frances Yost was driving Southbound, crossed the center line and caused a crash that killed Falgout and sent Yost and her 16 year old female passenger to the hospital.Falgout's survivors have a wrongful death claim against Yost that can be asserted by...