Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• 17 Year Old Latest To Die in Tragic New Jersey Auto Crash

  Mike Ferrara | March 31, 2008 11:21 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Another Springtime - another tragic teen driver death in New Jersey. There are over 8,000 teen deaths each year from auto crashes. They begin to pick up as the weather gets nicer and the teens take their friends for rides. Interestingly, alcohol and drugs are not major factors in these deaths. Rather, the inexperience and distractions that come from teen driving are the primary...

• 100 Kids Died in 2006 in ATV Crashes - An Underreported Horror Story - The Time Is Now To Ban ATV's.

  Mike Ferrara | February 20, 2008 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Imagine an American child dying a needless death every third day of every year. That is the latest statistic on ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) deaths in 2006 as reported by the Consumer Products Safety Commission. These 100 child death cases do not include another 455 adult death cases in the same year. Imagine - 555 deats blamed on ATV crashes in a single year. If that wasn't bad enough,...

• 7 Year-Old Dies in One Car Accident

  Jenny Albano | February 19, 2008 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A seven year-old girl died after a car crash that occurred on Monday, February 18 at around 12:30 P.M. The crash took place on the New Jersey Turnpike and injured the girl's mother and sister.Marianne Duffy, 38, of Chevy Chase, Md., was southbound on the highway in Mercer County, near Exit 8 in East Windsor, when she lost control of her car around 12:30 p.m. Monday, said state police Sgt....

• 23 Year Old New Jersey Man Indicted in Drunk Driving Death Case

  Mike Ferrara | February 18, 2008 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When a bunch of young adults go out to drink on a weekend and then decide to drive, the consequences can be devasting to them and to their victims. Everyone knows you must not drink and drive. The problem stems from the fact that when you are drunk, you may not remember that rule. That is why the designated driver rule is so important. Also, bartenders and servers must NEVER serve...

• 28 Year Old Sentenced to 18 Years in NC Car Crash

  Mike Ferrara | January 25, 2008 12:57 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It was a hot summer afternoon in July, 2004. Bill Carawan, 28, and his two brothers, Len, 20, and Jason, 26, along with a friend, were out for a ride. It was estimated that Bill's Mustang was going 113 miles per hour when it struck a Toyota driven by Emma Roof, 65, of Kure Beach. She was killed and her husband Ralph was seriously injured. The three passengers in Bill's car were killed....

• New Jersey Senate and Assembly Pass New Wrongful Death Bill - However Governor Corzine Vetoes It

  Mike Ferrara | January 17, 2008 1:11 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The New Jersey Senate and Assembly passed changes to the state's 130 year old Wrongful Death bill. The bill then went to the Governor's desk for his signature but he refused to sign it. Under New Jersey law, his failure to sign the bill had the same effect as a veto and the bill died. It will be reintroduced again in the next session of the legislature that began last Tuesday. ...

• New Year's Eve Tragedy - Mom and Four Children Killed by Drunk Driver - It's New Years Eve: Don't Drink and Drive

  Mike Ferrara | December 31, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Imagine. A mother and her children are on an interstate in their minivan, obeying the traffic laws. Coming in the opposite direction is a 24 year old drunk driver whose blood alcohol reading was three times the legal limit. This tragedy played out on an interstate near Toledo, Ohio. The brother of the drunk driver said "he wasn't supposed to be driving, but somehow he left and now he...

• 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...

• 2 Killed 48 Injured Every Week After Being Backed Over - Legislation Urgently Needed

  Mike Ferrara | December 06, 2007 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In the U.S. at least 50 children are backed over every week. Forty-eight of those children are treated in hospital emergency rooms and at least 2 children are killed every week because they can not be seen. Australia has recommend cameras to be installed on all vehicles; but legislation in the United States simply asks for a rear visibility standard to be set. There are two weeks remaining...

• The Ferrara Law Firm, L.L.C.

  Staff Writer | December 04, 2007 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Since 1972 The Ferrara Law Firm, L.L.C., a New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer, has protected the rights of people who have been seriously injured by unsafe products, careless doctors and dangerous workplaces. Mr Ferrara is one of the leading New Jersey personal injury lawyers. In additon, he was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America, and Best Lawyers in New Jersey and New York. ...