Posts tagged accidents

• New Jersey Car Crash Kills 22 Year Old Man - Investigating Officers Nearly Hit By Drunk Driver

  Mike Ferrara | October 01, 2007 1:32 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It was a sad night for the friends and family of Franklin Foulks, of Chatsworth, NJ, when they learned he lost control of his 2001 Subaru, hit a pole, and died. Chatsworth is located in a rural section of South Jersey in the Pine Barrens. The incident was almost made worse when a drunk driver nearly hit the police officers who were investigating the crash. Fortunately, the officers...

• Niki Trunk Appointed to Trial Lawyer Board of Governors

  Mike Ferrara | February 06, 2007 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Congratulations to Niki Trunk on her appointment to the Board of Governors of the ATLA-NJ, The New Jersey Trial Lawyer Association. President Marc Saperstein made the appointment on January 1, 2007. Niki joins about 70 personal injury lawyers on the Board of Governors. ATLA-NJ is composed of 2500 attorneys who represent consumers who are injured by defective products, injured in car...

• 17 Year Old Killed in Car Crash - 5th Teen To Die This Year In Shelby County

  Mike Ferrara | August 31, 2007 9:18 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As the summer winds to an end, another tragic end to a young life. This time, a one vehicle crash took the life a a 17 year old Shelby County, TN teen. The 1997 Ford Ranger pick-up truck rounded a curve and flipped over. What makes this case sadder than most is that there was no drinking or drugs involved, only the young man's failure to wear a seat belt. I wonder how much emphasis was...

• One Killed, Two Seriously Injured in Car Wreck

  Chrissie Cole | February 05, 2008 1:53 PM | 0 CommentsTrenton, NJ Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A fatal car accident involving a car and sport utility vehicle claimed one life and seriously injured two others, on Tuesday.The accident occurred at 4:30 p.m. at the 800 block of Prospect Street near Pennington Avenue. Detectives from the city police department and Mercer County Prosecutor's Office were at the scene to investigate the cause of the crash.The car's passenger, a young unidentified...

• Another Teen Car Crash Death - We Must Stop the 123 Auto Deaths That Happen Each Day

  Mike Ferrara | July 07, 2007 2:27 AM | 4 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With the advent of Google News, it is possible to find all the car crashes that happen each day relatively soon after they occur. If you set your Google Alert for the words "car crash" or "auto crash" it will prove to be a horrendous experience. Every single day there are heartbreaking stories about those killed in auto crashes. The latest is a 16 year old rear seat passenger who died...

• Over 33 Die Every Week in Non-Traffic Car Accidents – Learn How to Keep Kids Safe

  Mike Ferrara | February 03, 2009 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released its first report on the prevalence of non-traffic vehicular accidents. The report, titled “Not-in-Traffic...

• Second Teen From Same High School Dies in New Jersey Car Crash

  Mike Ferrara | December 16, 2007 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The town of Moorestown, NJ, was ranked as the best place to live in 2005 by Money magazine. This week it suffered a horrible tragedy as two of its high school seniors died in separate car accidents one week apart. The latest happened Friday night when a car went over the center line of Route 38 in Burllington County and killed the teen, who was a passenger in the car that was struck. The...

• Child Booster Seats - Only Used by 7% of 20M Children Between Ages 4 and 8

  Mike Ferrara | November 12, 2007 12:08 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The prestigious Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm looked at 30,000 auto crashes involving children between the ages of 4 and 8. They found the 80% of these children were using adult seat belts and not booster seats. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found the fewer than 7% of the 20 million children between the ages of 4 and 8 used booster...

• Days After Atco, NJ Man Killed in Iraq, Two Die in Tragic Car Crash in Same Town

  Mike Ferrara | September 17, 2007 3:05 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The small town of Atco, NJ, is located in Camden County and is about 20 miles from Philadelphia. The town mourned the loss of one its young men in Iraq on Friday. Two days later, a New Jersey State Trooper, Robert Parducci, 27, of Atco, and his passenger Jennifer Kehril, were killed in a tragic car crash. A third passenger, Anthony Shendock, also of Atco, was critically injured and was...

• Woman Dies in Head-On Crash

  Christina Cole | February 22, 2007 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A fatal car accident took the life of one woman on Wednesday. She died at Cooper Hospital from injuries sustained in the accident, shortly after the accident occurred. The head-on crash happened at 3:20am at Erial Rd. and Deer Park circle. A 2003 Ford Comcast Cable truck and a 20000 Mitsubishi truck were involved in the crash.All passengers and drivers that were involved in the crash were not...