Automobile Accidents

• Automobile Passenger Rights

  Jeremy Thurman | March 07, 2008 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  As a personal injury attorney I foolishly assume that people know they have a claim when they call or even are hurt in an accident. This foolish assumption has recently been eroded. I was recently discussed with a member of my church the rights of passengers of an automobile who were hurt in a train accident. Sometimes people fail to realize that if they are in an individual's care that is at...

• Dallas Resident Charged with Intoxication Manslaughter

  RLF Staff | March 07, 2008 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A Dallas man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter of a 70-year-old Garland man as the result of an automobile accident in Dallas Thursday, March 6.Continue Reading....In what Garland police call a non-weather related accident just before midnight Thursday, March 6, 29-year-old Raymond Martinez of Dallas has been charged with intoxication manslaughter of a Garland man.According to...

• Personal injury, workers' compensation discussed in new web video

  Anneke Kurt | March 07, 2008 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys Chuck Boyk, Mike Bruno, and Dale Emch have posted videos to give practical advice to people who may be searching for answers on the web. Because our office believes knowledge is power, the attorneys have ventured deeper into cyberspace by posting the video clips on our firm's website to provide information about a variety of injury topics, including car...

• Rangers Third-Baseman Suffered Neck Injuries in AZ Accident

  RLF Staff | March 07, 2008 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Minor neck injuries kept Texas Rangers third-baseman Hank Blalock out of the Spring Training lineup for the March 4 game against the Diamondbacks. Blalock's vehicle, a Cadillac Escalade, was rear-ended at an intersection early afternoon Monday, March 3, as he and his wife Misty and 3-year-old son Trey were returning from lunch. Though airbags did not deploy and the family was taken to the...

• Hit and Run Driver Kills Tampa Man in Wheelchair

  Shannon Weidemann | March 07, 2008 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A man in a wheelchair was killed by a hit and run driver in Tampa on Sunday. The pedestrian accident happened at Main Street and Rome Avenue. He was hit by an unidentified pickup truck. The victim was hit by a brown Ford pickup truck that ran a red light, and they say the driver was trying to avoid another car when they hit the wheelchair. After the crash, they say the driver never...

• Heavy Rains Cause Two Semi-Tractor Accidents

  Sandy Grinnell | March 07, 2008 8:53 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Two tractor-trailers crashed in unrelated accidents at the same overpass on I-4 in Winter Park last night.At about 11:30 pm a semi lost control on the Wymore overpass and crashed into the guardrail. The tractor ended up hanging over Wymore Road. There were no reports on the condition of the driver, but it took workers serveral hours to clean up the fuel spill.Then at 3:30 am another...

• Teenger Credits Seatbelt for Saving His Life

  Sandy Grinnell | March 07, 2008 7:54 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  At least one young man heeded the seatbelt warning and feels that deed alone saved his life. Reportedly the 18 year-old from the Panhandle of Florida was driving across the Pensacola Bay on Three Mile Bridge Monday. A gust of wind thought to be 30 to 35 miles per hour hit his SUV as he changed to the outside lane. The young man said "The whole drive the car was shaking because the winds were...

• Make Sure That Windshield Is Clean

  Rob McKinney | March 07, 2008 7:14 AM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Snow and ice are predicted for Middle Tennessee this weekend. Make sure your windsheild is free from anything limiting your ability to see. A driver in Nashville , Tennessee did not clean his windsheild and a young boy went to the hospital with a broken leg. Clarence Hawkins failed to clear the dew from his windsheild and struck a young boy walking to school. Mr Hawkins told police he...

• I-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus

  Eddie Farah | March 07, 2008 12:59 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won.The two vehicles were traveling southbound on I-95 just beyond International Golf Parkway.Four people were in the car. All were injured and taken to Flagler Hospital. There is no word on their condition.Everyone on the bus was okay except they couldn't get the...

• Insurance Adjuster Being Unfair?

  Ward Merdes | March 06, 2008 7:01 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  After a motor vehicle wreck in Alaska, many folks try to deal with insurance adjusters on the phone. The problem is that insurance adjusters are trained to always say "No." It's in their blood. Don't feel bad when they tell you "No" - or if they tell you that your injury "just isn't worth that much..." It doesn't matter how badly you are hurt - if it's a head injury, broken / fractured bones,...