Posts tagged motor

• Woman Drives into Walnut Creek Market

  Shannon Weidemann | September 25, 2007 6:21 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman driving a car drove into the Martinez Family Produce Market in Walnut Creek on Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the car was not hurt in the car accident. A 10-year-old boy was injured. He was in the market at the time of the accident. The driver, 68, of Walnut Creek, was driving a loaned 2007 Lexus RX 350 when she failed to negotiate a right-hand turn into the market, struck a...

• Hoping to Reduce Auto Accidents: Cell Phone Use Banned for Teenage Drivers

  Claude Wyle | September 25, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  That's it. The California Governor has signed into law a ban on teenage use of cellphones and texting and laptop computers while driving. In an effort to reduce distraction behind the wheel, and the resulting motor vehicle collisions, teenagers are now forbidden from using these devices while driving a car. The law will take effect on July 1, 2008. We are all hoping this new law will remedy a...

• Tragic Car Accident Claims the Lives of Three Small Children

  Chrissie Cole | September 24, 2007 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three children were tragically killed in a car accident today, when the Ford Expedition they were driving in crashed with a Chevy Truck, driven by an off-duty Sheriff Deputy, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).The Expedition driven by the mother, 26, of Visalia, was traveling north on Road 172, according to an officer at the scene. The driver of the truck, 27, of Exeter, was...

• Auto Crash Involving School Bus

  Rick Patterson | September 23, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Traffic accidents are never good, but when a school bus is involved it can be particularly awful. So many young children can be exposed to harm. In Greenburgh, New York, one person had to be hospitalized after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a school bus on Route 100C. Fortuntily, there was only a driver and one student on board the bus at the time of the incident, a...

• South San Francisco Woman Suffers Brain Injuries in Hit and Run

  Claude Wyle | September 22, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A South San Francisco woman was struck by yet another hit and run driver while walking her dog this last Tuesday. The dog was killed and this woman suffered severe brain injuries. Although she is expected to survive this pedestrian accident, she will have to live with the day to day nightmare of serious head trauma. Some people in a following car chased the hit and run driver, but have yet to...

• Two Die in Car Crash

  Susy Owen | September 21, 2007 6:51 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In San Antonio Texas, two people lost their lives when they were involved in a head-on Collision on Loop 410. The incident involved an 18-wheeler and a concrete truck on the city's southeast side. The truck driver blew a tire, which caused him to loose control of his vehicle. Once the tire blew the concrete truck crossed the median at which time it crashed into an 18-wheeler. There was a third...

• Big Rig Crash On San Mateo Bridge Injures Drivers and Pedestrians

  Claude Wyle | September 21, 2007 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  In yet another bizarre crash involving multiple trucks, three people suffered major personal injuries, including the driver of one of the trucks, a passenger in another truck and someone standing on the shoulder who was hit by flying debris. The truck accident on the San Mateo Bridge happened when one big rig truck rear-ended another truck that was parked on the shoulder. The third big rig then...

• San Francisco Hit and Run Auto Accident Fatality

  Claude Wyle | September 20, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 70-year-old woman was killed and another person suffered serious personal injuries in a three-vehicle hit-and-run collision which happened at about 8:30 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Gilman Avenue and Jennings Street. in San Francisco. Anyone with information about this hit and run accident is asked to call the San Francisco police Hit and Run detail at (415) 553-1641 or the Confidential...

• Report of Three Injured on Pershing Avenue

  Larry Knapp | September 20, 2007 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsStockton, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Stockton is a busy place and it's not unusual for motor vehicles to come in contact with each other causing injury to the occupants. Certain arterial roadways have a hirer volume of traffic and thus a higher likelihood of injury or death. Pershing Avenue and Pacific Avenue are excellent examples of these high volume arterial roadways that have a higher likelihood of car crashes. Its...

• Center for Constitutional Litigation Scores Major Victory

  Randy Walton | September 18, 2007 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on September 14 declared the Graves Amendment unconstitutional. That amendment had given immunity to automobile rental agencies for harm caused by their vehicles. The legislation has been a source of concern for the clients of personal injury law practitioners because it allowed owners of vehicles to rent or lease their cars without...