Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Liability and The Rear End Auto Accident Collision

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2005 5:36 PM | 1 CommentPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Most people have heard that rear-end collision type auto accidents are the fault of the driver who hits the person in front of them. In almost every case that is true. But why?The general rule of the common law forbids creating unreasonable risks of harm to others, which is Oregon's formulation of negligence law. In most automobile collision cases, the specifications of negligence include...

• Car and Train Collide Because of Text-Massaging Driver

  Jenny Albano | October 18, 2007 2:14 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Oregon man crashed into a freight train on Tuesday, October 16 at around 2 a.m. The driver, Robert Gillespie, and the crew on-board the train were not seriously injured.Gillespie told rescue workers that he was using his cell phone to send a text message while they were trying to release him from the demolished vehicle. He has been charged with drunken driving and careless driving. It is...

• Two Teens Die in Oregon Car Accident

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

  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...

• Oregon Auto Insurance Policies

  Staff Writer | December 16, 2005 10:45 AM | 1 CommentPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Oregon's Financial Responsibility Law requires that all automobile insurance policies have certain provisions. They fall into three parts: (1) liability, (2) uninsured/ underinsured motorist, and (3) personal injury protection.Liability policies pay for the consequences of the insured's negligence. Basic driving errors like failures of lookout, speed, and control, and failure to obey traffic...

• Woman Struck by Police Car

  Christina Cole | February 19, 2007 7:34 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman is in critical condition at OHSU Hospital after she was hit by a Beaverton police officer's patrol car on his way to help another fellow officer.Police are yet to release the name of the officer that has been put on paid administrative leave pending an investigation by the Washington County Crash Analysis Reconstruction Team. The woman was walking with her brother across Tualatin Valley...

• 2 Portland Women Die in Car Wreck

  Christina Cole | February 13, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two Portland women were killed and a third injured on Sunday when their vehicle was hit by a car that was traveling the wrong way on Interstate 5. According to Oregon State Police, the women were members of the Eugene Symphony and were on their way home from rehearsal. The driver of the car going the wrong way on the interstate has been arrested on manslaughter charges and is currently being...

• Man Dies after Crashing into Farm Vehicle

  Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 10:57 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man died after the car he was driving smashed into the back of a farm truck on Highway 6. The man died from the severe injuries sustained during the car accident.The man was traveling west on Highway 6, at approximately 6:45am when the accident happened, Oregon State Police say.The Toyota 2-door car crashed into the back of a westbound Oregon Road Runner hay squeeze (a farm implement.) He told...

• Hit & Run Crash Injures Man

  Christina Cole | February 03, 2007 11:27 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Portland man is recovering from serious injury after, police say, another driver collided into his vehicle and then left the scene of the accident.The driver of the SUV left the scene which seriously injured a Portland man, say police. Sergeant Brian Schmautz with the Portland Police said police responded to a 2-car crash just before 3:00am on Saturday.Fire crews arrived on scene to find...

• Jarrett Jack Injured in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 13, 2007 9:22 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Jarrett Jack, Portland Trail Blazers guard, suffered from a concussion in a car accident on Friday and he won't be playing in tonight's game against Sacramento.Jack was in a car accident outside the team's practice facility in Tualatin, Oregon. He was taken to the hospital for observation and diagnosed with a concussion. It has yet to be announced how much time Jack will miss.

• Motorcycle Accidents Increase

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A middle-aged Canadian man died on Labor Day when his motorcycle struck a car near the Oregon coast. In Central Oregon, a middle-aged couple from Aloha suffered injuries when their Harley Davidson collided with a Jeep.The incidents were the latest in what has become a sharp, if little-noticed, rise in the number of motorcycle accidents in Oregon.More than 550 motorcyclists were killed or injured...