Automobile Accidents

• Insurance Settlements and Health Care Bills

  Don Jacobs | April 01, 2008 6:37 PM | 0 CommentsVancouver, WA

  Read the fine print. Who hasn't heard that advice. Let's say you are injured in a collision. The other driver is at fault. Fortunately, they have insurance. You'd think the company would step up...

• Update: Liberty Bell Accident

  RLF Staff | April 01, 2008 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  In an update from yesterday's post about the Sunday night accident involving the caretaker of a Liberty Bell and Ten Commandments replicas, the driver of the historical display was apparently in...

• Motorcycle Accident Kills 63-Year-Old Man

  RLF Staff | April 01, 2008 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Taking a motorcycle ride with his son just after midnight this morning, a 63-year-old man died when he fell from his motorcycle. He apparently struck an object along Interstate 30 in Fort Worth. His...

• Teen Dies in Alcohol Related Car Crash(2)

  Linda Snyder | March 31, 2008 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  According to the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, police say two 18-year old men had been drinking at a party before the vehicle they were riding in rolled early Saturday, killing one and critically injuring the other.Neither was wearing a seatbelt and both were ejected. The passenger, Evan Kinnan, died in the one-car crash on Woodmen Road, and the driver, Craig Milos, suffered severe head...

• Justice Taylor's Legacy Lives On

  Tim Smith | March 31, 2008 3:30 PM | 0 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  Kreiner v. Fischer. A 2004 opinion by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Cliff Taylor that re-wrote Michigan Auto Insurance law as it was known up until that point in time. In that opinion, he literally re-wrote the legal standard that had been drafted by our legislature for individuals who had been injured in auto accidents. Back when the legislature enacted the Auto No-Fault Statute, individuals...

• Truck Toting Liberty Bell Replica Hit

  RLF Staff | March 31, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A man who regularly transports a replication of the Liberty Bell and the Ten Commandments stone tablets to the funerals of area veterans was injured Sunday night in a Dallas suburb when his truck was struck by a sport utility vehicle (SUV). He had apparently stopped on the westbound shoulder of a Highway 121 access road to strap the objects to the trailer when a suburbun hit the truck....

• Crash Leaves One Dead, One Seriously Injured

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

  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...

• South Carolina Man Dies in One-Car Accident

  Jenny Albano | March 30, 2008 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  A man from Geogetown County, South Carolina died in a one-car accident on Sunday morning, March 30.George Donnelly, 22, of Andrews was killed about 5:45 a.m. Sunday after his 1998 Camaro struck a ditch and overturned on S.C. 41 one mile South of U.S. 17 A, said a spokesman for the highway patrol. Donnelly who was ejected from the vehicle died of a closed head injury, said Georgetown County...

• Maine Senate gives green light to Ignition Interlock in hopes of controlling drunk drivers

  Don Briggs | March 30, 2008 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsBangor & Augusta, ME

  On March 27th, the Maine Senate gave full approval to the implementation of an Ignition Interlock program which would install breath analysis devices in the vehicles of convicted OUI offenders. The devices require drivers to breath into a miniature breathalyzer installed on the dashboard, and, if the driver's blood alcohol percentage is above the programmed limit (usually .02% -.04%), the...

• Two Teens Die in Oregon Car Accident

  Jenny Albano | March 30, 2008 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Two teenagers from Roseburg, Oregon died on Friday, March 28 after the car they were riding in swerved off the road, hit an electrical pole, hit a tree, and then flipped over. The 15-year-old driver, Jacob Gonzales, of the 1995 Toyota Camry is in serious condition after the car accident and another passenger was already treated and released from the hospital.Gonzales failed to negotiate a...