Posts tagged auto accidents

• AARP Offers Safety Courses for Senior Drivers

  Michael Lewis | November 08, 2011 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsWinston-Salem, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  How often do you hear of seniors getting in car accidents? I hear of it too often and thanks to the latest efforts by the AARP, there’s help for them. The AARP has decided to offer safety...

• Rainy Day Driving Tips

  Michael Lewis | October 12, 2011 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsWinston-Salem, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We can all appreciate a rainy day because of the refreshing qualities that it brings. Driving in the rain, however, can be very dangerous, so avoid it if you can. You may even consider yourself a...

• Holiday season means drunk drivers-look out!

  Emily Mapp Brannon | December 07, 2010 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  With the holiday season comes many of the festivities that make this time of year so enjoyable for many of us. Over the next few weeks, there will be countless holiday office parties, gatherings...

• Recent Study Finds Triad Interstate Traffic Less Congested than Raleigh and Charlotte

  Lawrence Egerton | March 22, 2010 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Driving in through the Greensboro, North Carolina metro might not be as bad as you think, despite the fact that Interstates 85 and 40 both run right through the heart of Guilford County. Though...

• British Woman Sentenced to Jail in Texting-While-Driving Fatality

  Pierce Egerton | November 02, 2009 8:54 AM | 3 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While awareness of the texting-while-driving epidemic is growing, the United Kingdom is one of the few countries that are aggressively prosecuting people whose texting causes tragic accidents on the...

• Defendant claims fainting is valid excuse for the death of five children

  Brent Adams | March 09, 2008 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Is a driver liable if he passes out at the wheel and injures someone? The answer in North Carlina is: it depends.A driver is obligated to operate his vehicle as a reasonable prudent person would do. If he fails to act in that manner and if someone is injured by that failure, that driver is responsible for all injuries that resultIf a driver has absolutely no reason to believe that he may be...

• Successive Auto Collisions: Difficult To Get An Adequate Avard

  Brent Adams | February 23, 2008 11:36 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A big nightmare for plaintiff's lawyers is having the burden of trying to get an adequate award for a victim of two successive traumatic events (usually arising out of two separate automobile collisions).It is difficult , if not impossible, to sort out the degree of harm caused by each collision separate and apart from the other traumatic event.It is unusual for the two separate claims to be...

• Sever teenagers and one adult killed in "a death trap on wheels".

  Brent Adams | January 17, 2008 11:16 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the Bathurst, New Brunswick traffic accident that occurred on January 12 involving the death of seven high school basketball players and one adult passenger, it was discovered that the passenger van used by the team has long been banned from the transportation of public school students in a majority of the U.S. and some provinces in Canada. The 15-seat Ford Club Wagon's design made it...

• NEGLIGENCE RESULTING IN DEATH OF MOTHER AND SON NETS $900,000 SETTLEMENT

  Brent Adams | January 11, 2008 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A mother in her twenties and her six year old son were killed in a motor vehicle collision which occurred when the defendant truck driver backed a semi tractor-trailer from his driveway into the roadway in front of the mother and her son.A mother in her twenties and her six year old son were killed in a motor vehicle collision which occurred when the defendant truck driver backed a semi...

• Pickup Truck Slams Into Back of Loaded School Bus

  Brent Adams | October 10, 2007 11:00 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Approximately 25 students in the Coats-Erwin middle School in North Carolina sought medical attention after the bus in which they were riding to school was rear-ended by a pickup truck.The collision occurred near Erwin, North Carolina on Red Hill Church Road near the intersection of Ash Avenue at about 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10, 2007.The Dunn, North Carolina Daily Record reported that...