Automobile Accidents

• Supreme Court Ruling Means More Rights for New Jersey Auto Accident Victims

  Mike Ferrara | December 19, 2009 9:22 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  The term “verbal threshold” is confusing to a lot of people. Essentially, when there is an auto accident in a state with a no-fault insurance law and someone is injured, invoking the...

• Toyota Recall: Time Magazine Suggests Recall Will Not End Sudden Acceleration Problems

  Brett Emison | December 04, 2009 11:31 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO

  An article in Time magazine suggests that Toyota's massive recall will not end the controversy over the Toyota sudden acceleration defect. But critics complain that Toyota was slow to acknowledge...

• Drunk Driver Hit's Patrol Car

  Mike Bryant | November 28, 2009 11:00 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Thanksgiving morning, State Trooper Sam Catlin was making a drunk driving stop along Highway 52 near Rochester. A speeding car being driven by a Rochester woman hit his sitting patrol car. The...

• Man sentenced in Williamsburg DUI crash

  Emily Mapp Brannon | November 28, 2009 7:52 PM | 2 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Mark Schneider will spend a year in jail after drunkenly hitting pedestrian Irene Carson last Christmas Eve, a Williamsburg-James City County circuit court judge ruled this week. Schneider, 39,...

• Pedestrian Accident in Phoenix brings up Personal Injury Question

  Christy Thompson | November 24, 2009 2:00 PM | 2 CommentsChandler, AZ

  On November 18, 2009 at approximately 3:45pm MST, an Arizona pedestrian was struck by a car in the Cave Creek, Phoenix area. To date, no witnesses or cameras have been able to concretely confirm...

• Guilty Verdict Sends Message to Both Drivers and Cyclists: Calm Down!

  Mark Williams | November 15, 2009 10:24 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A retired emergency room physician was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury for injuries he caused to two cyclists when he deliberately stopped short in front of them on a canyon road leading up to...

• I-35 Automobile Accidents - Barrier Cables Can Prevent Deadly Car Accidents

  Jeremy Thurman | November 12, 2009 11:17 AM | 2 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  The other day I read fellow I-35 Blog Pack and Injuryboard member Mike Bryant’s blog entitled “I-35 Collision Kills Two.” Mike discusses a tragic accident that occurred in...

• The First 8 Things to do After an Auto Accident

  Bret Hanna | November 08, 2009 6:17 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Auto accidents are a fact of life and knowing what to do when you are involved in one is critical. Of course, doing anything at all assumes that you are physically and mentally able to do so. If you...

• New Data Contests NHTSA Findings, Exposes Real Danger of Vehicle Power Windows

  Janette Fennell | November 05, 2009 1:31 PM | 2 CommentsVoices

  Research released today by KidsAndCars.org shows injuries to occupants in vehicles equipped with power windows to a number in the tens of millions, in sharp contrast to estimates by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that put the number at less than 2,000...

• Toyota Sudden Acceleration: Case Is Not Closed

  Brett Emison | November 04, 2009 2:04 PM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO

  The New York Times and ABC News are reporting that the matter of the Toyota sudden acceleration problem is not yet resolved. In fact, according to the New York Times, Toyota's recent press release...