Randy Appleton has decades of experience practicing personal injury law. He has handled complex injury lawsuits in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Twelve football players and several coaches who survived a bus crash in North Carolina are suing the church that operated the bus. The lawsuit filed last week stated that Sandy River Baptist Church in Chester County NC did not maintain the bus and its tires…
An 18 year old woman was riding in the back seat of a friend’s Toyota on Oct. 2 when the driver ran a stop sign and slammed into another vehicle. The accident occurred in Frankline County NC at Pilot-Riley Road. A witness said the car…
The family of a Wilmington NC man who was struck and killed by a distracted Domino’s driver in May 2016 filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the pizza company. On the same day that the pizza delivery driver pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter…
A family from Missouri had been saving money for months to take their daughters to Disney World, but a tragic car crash during the vacation killed the parents and seriously injured their daughters in Florida. The parents had just wrapped up a visit to Disney…
A bus driver, two football players and a 10 year old died after a bus carrying a junior college football team from South Carolina crashed on US Highway 74 near Hamlet NC. The North Carolina State Police stated that the left front tire blew on…
A 79 year old woman from Columbia in South America was enjoying a vacation in North Carolina in late August when she was killed in Charlotte by a drunk driver with several DUI convictions. The elderly woman from South America was in a car with…
Automation and budget-cutting have led many freight and passenger railroads across the United States to cut crew sizes. As a logical result of such staff reductions, many of the largest trains moving along the nation’s rails have only a single engineer in the locomotive—even those…
Three people died on Aug. 14 in a single car crash in Raleigh NC at the intersection of Highwoods Blvd. and Poplarwood Court. The state police stated that the driver was under the influence of alcohol and swerved and overcorrected, veering off the left side…
State and local law enforcement in North Carolina arrested 1,729 suspected impaired drivers during the annual Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s Booze It & Lose It – Operation Firecracker enforcement campaign of June 24 through July 4. At least 1,600 were suspected drunk drivers, and 125 were…
The son of a Kansas state legislator died last weekend while riding a 168-foot high water slide at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. The water slide allows riders to reach speeds of up to 70 MPH. While it is not known yet if the boy was killed…
A 24 year old musician from St. Helena Island, South Carolina was on his way home from a show and was killed by an allegedly impaired driver who was going the wrong way on the road. The man died of blunt force trauma at the…
The North Carolina House earlier this summer passed a bill that would increase drunk boating penalties to the same as drunk driving. The bill is being called Sheyenne’s Law, which is named after a 17 year old girl who was killed in 2015 by a…
