Posts tagged killed

• Markers in the Hampton River May Raise Boat Traffic and Increase Accidents, Residents Worry

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 11, 2011 11:40 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Hampton River in Virginia is popular with speedboat owners and Jet Ski riders, but new heavy wooden markers placed the water in the water after the City of Hampton dredged the boat channel have...

• Medical Malpractice Cap Increase Vetoed in VA, Victims of Doctors' Errors Suffer

  Rick Shapiro | April 01, 2011 12:15 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Virginia (VA) lawmakers, doctors, insurers and patient advocates hammered out a legislative proposal to modestly increase caps on medical malpractice awards in $50,000 increments from $2 million to...

• Sirens And Lights For Safety When Police and First Responders Run Red Lights

  Doug Landau | March 21, 2011 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Virginia General Assembly voted 137-1 passed Ashley's Law. Ashley's Law is named for teacher Ashley McIntosh, who was killed in 2008 in a crash involving a Fairfax County police officer who...

• Pedestrian Killed While Attempting to Cross I-264 Near Downtown Tunnel

  Emily Mapp Brannon | March 14, 2011 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Eighteen-year-old John Snowden III lost his life on I-264 while trying to walk from one side of the interstate to the other. The crash occurred near the Norfolk side of the Downtown Tunnel just...

• Head Injury Concerns Lead to Baseball Bat Ban for Virginia High Schools

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | January 16, 2011 12:28 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Starting this season, high school baseball players in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and every other city and county in Virginia (VA) will have to use wooden bats or aluminum bats engineered to...

• St. Patrick's Day DUI Checkpoints Nab 9 Drunk, Drugged Drivers in Virginia Beach

  Randy Appleton | March 19, 2010 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Virginia Beach Police took nine drunk or drugged drivers off the city's roads and interstates March 17. The date of the DUI crackdown, St. Patrick's Day, was significant, as the feast day of...

• Wheelchair-Bound Suffolk Woman Hit, Killed While Crossing Street

  Emily Mapp Brannon | March 15, 2010 12:24 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 64-year-old woman trying to power her wheelchair across West Constance Road near Suffolk West Shopping Center on Friday night, March 12 was struck by an SUV and died from injuries after being...

• Pit Bull Attacks Newport News Police Officer

  Randy Appleton | February 01, 2010 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call in Newport News, Virginia (VA), on Jan. 31, 2010, was bitten on the hand and arm by the family's pit bull. The officer had to shoot the dog...

• Workers lose their lives in the Construction trade

  Doug Landau | November 26, 2009 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  With over 6 million people in the construction trades in the United States, it is a significant sector of our economy, However, construction is also one of the most dangerous kind of work, with over...

• Wrongful Death Suit Reinstated in Virginia (VA) Against Parents Hosting Visting Teen

  Rick Shapiro | November 06, 2009 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Courts and juries can find adults who have temporary supervision or custody of children liable for injuries to those children even when the harm resulted from the actions of someone other than the...