Automobile Accidents

• Traumatic Brain Injury...The Unseen Harm

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  After a wreck, traumatic Brain Injury often goes undiagnosed in the Emergency Room. The doctors are worried about broken bones and other serious injuries and often overlook the most serious injury of all, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Every year, one in five hundred Americans have a TBI.Not long ago, unlike a broken bone or a herniated disc, most TBI was invisible. This made this type of case...

• Car Crash Not Always Driver's Fault

  Drew Dixon | February 21, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  There were nearly 6,420,000 auto wrecks in the United States in 2005. Of those 6,420,000 wrecks more than 2,900,000 people were injured and 42,636 people were killed. That means that every ten seconds someone in the United States is involved in a car wreck. Most often those wrecks are the result of driver negligence due to the driver's failure to obey traffic laws, use of a cell phone, or use...

• Too Many Buses Are Crashing

  Frank Bailey | January 09, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Recently a bus crashed in Arkansas killing three passengers. The bus which was headed to Dallas, Texas and coming from Milwaukee. The driver had been driving straight for seventeen hours without sleep. There were forty-six passengers on that bus when it crossed the grassy median 12 miles east of Forrest City, Arkansas at 10:10 p.m. on November 25.The bus struck a pickup, killing its driver,...

• Tornado Bus Driver Likely Under the Influence

  Drew Dixon | January 07, 2008 12:21 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  The investigation, into the November 25th, 2007, bus crash that left four dead, has lead authorities to believe that Tornado Bus Co. Inc. driver Felix Badillo Tapia was under the influence of amphetamines at the time of the accident. While it is unclear whether or not the amphetamines were prescription, police believe Tapia had acquired the amphetamines in Mexico. In addition to having found...

• How to Make Our Highways Safe

  Frank Bailey | January 04, 2008 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The cause of the Tornado bus crash that killed four on Interstate 40 near Forrest City Arkansas is still unclear, but new facts point to driver fatigue. Police have now confirmed the driver was on amphetamines, a drug used to stay awake. Police have also learned that the Tornado Bus Co. falsified records by listing a co-driver, when the co-driver was actually off duty and in El Paso, Texas at...

• Tornado Bus Line Wreck-Justice Makes a Beginning

  Jeanie Oliver | January 04, 2008 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  The passengers and families of the dead in the November Tornado Bus Line wreck can begin to hope for justice. Information was released yesterday, January 3, 2008, that announced that the driver of the bus, Felix B. Tapia was being charged with four counts of negligent homocide.Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division were granted a warrant for the driver when...

• Car Accident and Curvy Roads in Arkansas

  Drew Dixon | January 02, 2008 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  There is a reason Arkansas adopted the state motto "The Natural State." Arkansas roads traverse hills and mountains which provide travelers opportunities to enjoy scenic views while driving to their destinations. However, with these hills and mountains come curvy roads that require drivers to pay particular attention to safety for themselves and others. Recently a Harrison man was killed and...

• Tornado Bus Accident is Truly a Bad Storm for Victims

  Sach Oliver | December 28, 2007 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  The U.S. Department of Transportation found that the Tornado Bus Driver driving in the November 25th accident on I-40 near Forest City had been driving too many hours. Too many hours means the Tornado Bus Company disregarded the passengers' safety. Too many hours means Tornado Bus Company is responsible for four deaths from the accident. Companies like the Tornado Bus Company should be held...

• Connective Tissue Injury and the Trial Attorney

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  In the past it was thought that connective tissue injuries resulting from a rear end collision did not ever heal. Now new evidence suggests that Chiropractic treatment combined with good nutrition can support healing in some cases.Often victims of rear end collisions have neck pain associated with headaches within the first few hours following a wreck. Allopathic physicians like those found in...

• TODDLER SURVIVES SIX-VEHICLE COLLISION IN ROGERS, AR

  Sach Oliver | December 18, 2007 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  On Friday, December 14, 2007, a six-vehicle wreck on South Eighth Street killed Jerred Dubose, 18, of Springdale and Melinda Yates, 18, of Lowell. Their son,18-month-old Bryson was airlifted to Arkansas Children's Hospital, where he was in critical condition. On Saturday, his condition was upgraded to fair. Three others were injured and taken to local hospitals in the wreck. Rogers police...