A white cross near a railroad crossing is a silent reminder that a victim of a railroad accident lost their life. Regardless of who was at fault, the driver for not obeying traffic signals or the railroad for an unsafe or poorly maintained crossing, the…
Shortly after a small plane crashed just yards from a house in Louisa County, Virginia (VA), on the night of April 11, 2014, officials reported that mechanical failure likely brought down the Cessna U206G Stationair. The pilot and passenger aboard the aircraft suffered injuries requiring…
Congress is working this month on the next surface transportation reauthorization. Consequently, a large coalition of public health and safety groups, law enforcement, truck drivers and truck crash victims are descending on Capitol Hill this week to oppose increase to federal truck size/weight limit
A wheel reportedly came loose from a pickup truck and crashed into an SUV on Interstate 64 (I-64) near Montrose Street entrance ramp in South Charleston. The driver of the SUV had to be cut out of the vehicle after the wheel crashed into his…
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. What happens when a doctor fools patients into thinking he is a competent doctor not once, not twice but at least half a dozen times? The terrible answer is several lives lost, several…
In the movie, Stand By Me, there is a famous scene where four boys try a short cut and walk out on a railroad track over a ravine. This proves to be a mistake as the oncoming train almost runs them down. Sadly this fictional…
A year after Marianne Karth lost her two daughters in a car-tractor trailer crash, the Rocky Mount, NC mother is pushing for new safety rules for trucks across the US. Karth was driving on I-20 in Georgia last May, when she had to stop for traffic…
Medical malpractice caps are arbitrary and unfair. These caps restrict how much an innocent victim can receive in a case where a physician’s preventable mistake results in the death of a patient. Fortunately, the Florida Supreme Court recognized how unfair and flagrantly unconstitutional these caps…
Talk about a rough ride. Passengers that were on the Chicago Transit Authority railroad line train got a rude awaking when their train derailed and crashed through a barrier and up an escalator at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The cause of the railroad accident hasn’t been…
Driving on a winding mountain road can be nerve wracking, every turn brings the chance that you might lose control. This is why when you encounter difficult driving conditions you should be focused and drive as slow as you need to keep a safe speed. …
The NY Metro North Railroad, the second biggest commuter railroad in the US, has allowed safety to deteriorate significantly while pushing to keep trains running on time. This resulted in a lax culture of poor inspections, bad training, and overuse of cell phones by employees,…
Almost 1,000 people have filed suit against Medtronic, a spinal implant manufacturer, and they’re expecting many more. The morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) product, Infuse, used in spinal surgeries, has been wrought with claims of cancer, sterility in men, and unwanted bone growth. The implant is a…