Posts tagged pedestrian

• Road Kill: Pedestrian Accidents Often Result in Wrongful Death

  John Cooper | November 06, 2009 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When a pedestrian gets hit by a car or truck, the injuries are typically quite severe, including broken bones or even the death of the pedestrian. The pedestrian has the right of way in Virginia if...

• Halloween Safety at the Forefront After Clermont Child Struck by SUV

  Angela Pulido | November 03, 2009 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Halloween ended tragically for a Central Florida family, when eight year old Mitchell MittyTrompeter, a third-grader at Clermont Elementary, was struck by an SUV and killed while crossing Highway 50...

• Pedestrian signs erected in Virginia Beach (VA) after pedestrian's death

  Jim Lewis | November 03, 2009 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A week after pedestrian Arnold Lee Jones was killed in a tragic accident on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, city officials have erected pedestrian signs on the busy road. Eight signs have been...

• Teen Dead After Being Hit by a Pickup Truck in Spartanburg County

  John Cooper | November 02, 2009 6:22 PM | 5 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Viktoria Vasiliye Melnik was walking along the northbound lane of Highway 357 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina (SC) when her life came to a tragic end. A 1980 Ford pickup truck, driven by...

• Local Pizza General Manager Killed By Passing Vehicle

  Mike Bryant | October 31, 2009 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Thursday night, a the general manager of Sammy’s Pizza was hit and killed as he was on Interstate Highway 94. He hit the side of a semitrailer that swerved to avoid hitting him, according to...

• Why might a pedestrian not realize a garbage truck is backing?

  Steve Lombardi | October 31, 2009 2:08 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  When we receive real life examples of how personal injury accidents occur sometimes we post them as a Q&A. In this instance see how easily you can become victimized by injuries in which you had...

• Chicago Woman Pedestrian Struck by Distracted Driver

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2009 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  I love downtown Chicago. Over the past two years I've spent several weeks at the Guest Quarters and walked every morning to De Paul's conference center for classes. But really I've been following...

• Halloween Horror: Trick or Treating Leads to Higher Incidences of Pedestrian Traffic Accidents

  John Cooper | October 30, 2009 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Halloween is all about ghouls and goblins, dressing up, eating some delicious candy, and maybe even enjoying a scary movie. But there’s a truly terrifying aspect Halloween few people seem to...

• D.C. Woman Pedestrian killed by Metrobus

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2009 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...

• What Should Be Done to Curb Jaywalking?

  Sandy Grinnell | October 28, 2009 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When police try to enforce jaywalking laws, it's often a cause for a lot of verbal bashing by the anti-government, anti-establishment types and even some city officials. See what happened last July...