Automobile Accidents

• Clyde Dunlap Killed By Moose. Here's The Law...

  Ward Merdes | September 05, 2007 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The Dunlap family's insurance carrier will play an old trick on Ms. Dunlap - to avoid paying a dime.The Alaska State Troopers report that Clyde Dunlap, 88, died when his wife, Martha Dunlap, ran into a moose. It appears that Ms. Dunlap did not see the moose until it was too late. The legal import of this situation is twofold: (1) was Martha Dunlap negligent for not seeing the moose?; and (2) is...

• More on Highway Safety

  Joe Stanley | September 05, 2007 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsSyracuse, NY

  The recent tragic car truck crash on the New York Thruway shows what we have warned about in previous posts. High speed travel is dangerous and traveling late at night or early morning is even more dangerous. Take your time. Make sure you are awake. Better late than never is a very good saying.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Car and Motorcycle...

• Boy Saved After Plane Crash in Lake Erie, 2 Still Missing

  Jenny Albano | September 04, 2007 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsAkron, OH

  A plane crashed on the night of September 3 into Lake Erie, near Kelley's Island in Ohio. The plane held a 46 year-old man and his two sons. When the plane crashed, one of the boys was able to escape and was rescued by Chuck Herndon, who was on the lake in his boat that night. According to Herndon, the 7 year-old boy matter-of-factly stated, "'My father and my brother were killed in a plane...

• Toddler Killed in Stockton Driveway Accident

  Chrissie Cole | September 04, 2007 9:43 PM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA

  A tragic car accident yesterday claimed the life of a one-year-old Stockton girl while she was playing in her family's driveway.The accident occurred when the child's uncle, 36, moved his white suburban so he could wash it. As he backed out of the driveway, he felt like the vehicle hit something. He later told police he didn't see the little girl playing in the driveway.No arrests have been made...

• Toddler Dies In Hot Car

  Jane Akre | September 04, 2007 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Charges could be filed against a mother who took her toddler to her job and mistakenly left the girl in a hot car to die.It happened in Ocoee. The mother was supposed to take her 22-month old to day care. Instead she went right to her job at City Hall at 9 a.m. When she returned to the car about four hours later, the little girl was passed out in her car seat. She was pronounced dead at the...

• Cab Driver Shot in Face

  Ed Normand | September 04, 2007 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A cab driver picked up a fare near Universal, was directed to fake address, and was shot in the face. The driver is in the hospital fighting for his life in critical condition. Crime against cab drivers is a well known problem. In fact, drivers have been asking cab companies for years to offer protection. Simple measures like bullet proof glass partitions, panic buttons, alarms and cab cams...

• 2 Killed In Chicago Car Accident

  Jamie G. Goldstein | September 04, 2007 5:08 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A van driving on Chicago's Stevenson Expressway on Monday afternoon crashed after brake failure. The accident caused the death of two people, one a 17 year old girl and the other a man who was believed to be in his 20s. The crash occurred near County Line Road in Burr Ridge, Illinois around 12:15 p.m shortly after the van entered the expressway.The van was lent to a Chicago labor agency, and...

• Five Dead From Motor Vehicle Accidents in San Francisco Bay Area Over Weekend

  Claude Wyle | September 04, 2007 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Even before the Labor Day weekend was half over, it proved deadly for several people traveling on San Francisco Bay Area roads and highways. By Saturday night, a 61 year old man died in a motorcycle crash in Concord, when he rode into the Kohl's department store. On Highway 4, a motorcyclist was killed when he was thrown from his bike, landing inside the gates of a nearby storage facility. A 47...

• Annapolis Motorcycle Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | September 04, 2007 3:03 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A 25-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sunday in Annapolis. The victim was from Edgewater. He was driving his motorcycle in a construction zone when the accident happened. The victim tried to merge left from a right-turn-only lane on southbound Route 2 near Forest Drive, swerved back to the right when he saw traffic approaching from behind, and went off the road, past the...

• Robertson County Highway Crash Kills Four

  Shannon Weidemann | September 04, 2007 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  A van and a tow truck were driving towards each other on Texas 6 in Robertson County when they collided. Four people were killed and two were hurt in the car accident. The Department of Public Safety said the accident occurred as the van attempted to pass an 18-wheeler in a no-passing zone on Texas 6 near Hammond. The drivers of the van and the tow truck took evasive action but both swerved...