A 42-year-old Birmingham, Alabama woman has been arrested and charged with murder for her role in a suspected DUI crash in 2016 in Dora, Alabama. The woman’s name is Rebecca A. Watson and she was booked into jail on Sept. 18. She has been charged…
DAn allegedly drunk driver had a blood-alcohol level more than four times above the legal limit when he killed a woman in a Greenville, South Carolina crash, according to state trooper Jonathan Bridges in court. A toxicology report found that the driver, Scott A. Henning,…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) blasted a South Carolina law last month that has made dash cam videos a required piece of evidence in DUI cases. MADD thinks that faults and errors in the video making process are leading to plea deals that result in…
Labor Day weekend marks the end of the summer and a return to school. According to AAA, Labor Day also marks the end of the “100 deadliest days” for teen drivers. Statistics show that the 100 days between Memorial Day in May and Labor Day…
A family in Riverview, Florida is mourning the loss this week of their three-year-old girl who was killed in a car-pedestrian accident near their home on Aug. 22. The media reported that the mother had walked their eight-year-old son to the bus stop. She was…
A new law in Pennsylvania is starting this month that will require using technology to prevent drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel. Lawmakers say that more anti-drunk driving laws will be passed as well. It is hoped that this getting tough on drunk driving…
Every day in the United States, nine people are killed and more than 1,000 are seriously injured in car crashes caused by distracted drivers. Many safety advocates believe the number is much higher because many drivers don’t admit they were using their cell phones while…
Four people died in a two-car crash on US Highway 411 in Loudoun County, Tennessee on Aug. 27, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported this morning. The fatal, head-on car accident occurred on Greenback near Cope Road in Loudoun County at 7 pm on Saturday. A GMC…
As a Virginia dangerous drug attorney, I have tracked the tragic consequences of the overprescribing and illegal sale of powerful prescription painkillers for more than two decades. Doctors, dentists and pharmacists who did too little to limit access to medications like OxyContin (oxycodone) and Vic
A 23-year-old man in Charlotte, North Carolina has been charged in a fatal DWI crash that killed a man on July 21. The DWI crash occurred at 1:45 AM on North Tryon Street in Charlotte. The Charlotte police stated that the man was driving his…
For the third time in two months, a driver got onto a major highway near Annapolis, Maryland and went in the wrong direction, then slammed into oncoming traffic. This time, two people died in a July 25 wrong-way crash on Route 50 near Annapolis. This…
A North Carolina woman was killed in a golf cart accident in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 27. According to the North Myrtle Beach police, the golf cart accident happened at 6 pm when the driver of a Toyota Camry swerved off the…