Imagine coming home to find you have no home. That’s what happened when a log truck ran off the road around 9:15 a.m., and into a house at Sherrill’s Ford Road in Salisbury, North Carolina (NC). The owners came home to find their home uninhabitable and their poor cat wedged between a dresser and a wall. Fortunately for the cat, firefighters were able to free it. But imagine the kind of injury or death that could have occurred had the family been home.
The accident was caused by a car driving on the wrong side of the road. The head on collision forced the truck off the road, through some grass and into a retaining wall. The truck also hit a parked car in the driveway.
The truck slammed through a screened-in porch attached to the house and crashed into a corner bedroom. There is about 20 feet section of wall missing on the side of the house.
The highway patrol has cited the wrong way driver of the car with driving left of center. Rowan Communications said the log truck driver was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. The driver of the car was also injured and taken to the hospital.
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Rick Shapiro has practiced personal injury law for over 30 years in Virginia, North Carolina, and throughout the Southeastern United States. He is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (ABA Accredited) and has litigated injury cases throughout the eastern United States, including wrongful death, trucking, faulty products, railroad, and medical negligence claims. During his three-decade career, Shapiro has won client appeals before the VA Supreme Court, VA Court of Appeals, NC Supreme Court, SC Supreme Court, WV Supreme Court, TN Supreme Court, and three times before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, underscoring Shapiro’s trial achievements. In addition, he and his law firm have won settlements/verdicts in excess of $100 million. His success in and out of the courtroom is a big reason why he was named 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” in railroad law in U.S. News & World Report's Best Lawyers publication (Norfolk, VA area), and he has been named a “Best Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” by those peer-reviewed organizations for multiple years. Rick was also named a “Leader in the Law, Class of 2022” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly (total of 33 statewide honorees consisting of lawyers and judges across Virginia). And in September 2023, Rick was selected as a recipient of the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) 2023 President’s Award. Although many nominations were submitted from across the country, Rick was just one of eight attorneys chosen by the prestigious National Board which certifies civil trial attorneys across the U.S. Rick was also recently named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly 2024 Virginia’s Go To Lawyers Medical Malpractice. The attorneys awarded this honor are nominated by their colleagues and chosen by a panel from the publication.
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