Archive for the ‘car wreck’ Category
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Good article in the Houston Chronicle today about how the recent bus wreck tragedies in Texas, Nevada and Mississippi have brought bus safety to the forefront of the politicians in D.C. and Austin. Among other things, there are bills being floated that will require buses to have seatbelts for passengers. That sounds reasonable and somewhat of a no-brainer. I would also suggest that bus carriers be required to carry vast amounts of liability insurance, something on the order of $25 million or thereabouts. Because when a tragedy occurs like the one we just saw in Sherman, dozens of lives are affected and I’ll bet there will be little - if any - insurance to help compensate victims.
One striking statistic in the Chronicle article is that in the past six years, 52 people have died in passenger bus accidents in Texas. That is appalling.
As an aside, Chronicle writer Clay Robison has had some great articles in the past exposing the plights of injured consumers. Tip of the hat to Clay.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Actress Sandra Bullock and her husband were involved in a head-on car wreck last Friday night in Gloucester, Mass. Apparently the woman driving the car that hit their SUV was arrested and charged with DUI. Bullock, her husband and their driver were not hurt.
3 observations:
- Her husband is named Jesse James.
- My father-in-law, an Austin attorney, defended a building contractor in a suit brought by Bullock over some work on her home on Lake Austin. Said she was very nice in person.
- Gloucester is not pronounced “Glahwo-chester,” as I was once rather-rudely told by someone from that part of the country. As I recall, it rhymes with “oyster” or something like that.
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Jerry Seinfeld was in a harrowing rollover car wreck but was unhurt after the brakes on one of his vintage cars failed.
Seinfeld was driving alone when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat BTM stopped working Saturday evening, East Hampton Town Police Chief Todd Sarris told the New York Post. Seinfeld tried the emergency brake, to no avail, and then swerved to keep the car from careening into an intersection, Sarris said.
The two-door sedan flipped over and came to a stop just yards from the highway, Sarris said, adding that the comic’s maneuver “probably avoided a very serious accident.”
The comedian took the crash in stride. “Because I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do,” Seinfeld said. “It is not something I plan to make a habit of.”
(I didn’t know Seinfeld was 53…)
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Three men died when their car hit a parked 18-wheeler in Grapevine early Sunday morning. Police report that that truck was parked legally.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Tragic car wreck on Sunday in Roanoke left three dead, including a toddler. Apparently a driver tried to pass in a no-passing zone and hit another car head-on. Sad stuff.
FWST story here.
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Attorneys from the Fort Worth personal injury law firm of Laird & Cummings, P.C., are reminding everyone who may be traveling on interstate highways to stay safe and smart this holiday season.
Families traveling north to celebrate the holidays with love ones this year should be particularly aware of weather-related dangers on the roads. Take precautions, and check the weather before you leave.
“The difference in road conditions can be very tricky for drivers who aren’t used to driving on icy roads or in severe weather,” says attorney John Cummings, partner in the Fort Worth personal injury law firm of Laird & Cummings, P.C. “When you combine bad driving conditions with the fact that tractor trailer drivers are trying to make it home for the holidays themselves, you can see the dangerous combination.”
Nearly 5,000 people were killed in crashes on U.S. roads involving large trucks in 2006, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The National Transportation Safety Board and other respected highway safety research groups have found that nearly 40 percent of big truck crashes are due to fatigue. Studies show that extended periods without sleep can slow reaction times by as much as 50 percent, which is the same as having a .05 percent blood alcohol level.
Laird & Cummings, P.C., is a Fort Worth, Texas, personal injury law firm that represents individuals and families in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, products liability and business litigation.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Bizarre car wreck in Dallas left one person dead today. Seems an SUV going one way lost control and hit a concrete median, causing a piece of concrete to break off the median and strike the driver’s side window of a car coming from the other direction. Killed the driver of that car. Story here.
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
WATERBURY, Conn. - Attorneys say the family of a Madison teen killed nearly six years ago in a car accident is to receive an $18.3 million settlement. Seventeen-year-old Tim Orefice was killed in Guilford on Jan. 25, 2002. The teen’s car was hit by a Guilford Texaco tow truck driven by Jason Secondino. Secondino, Guilford Texaco, and the company which leased the truck to Guilford Texaco, were all sued in the case that went to trial in October at Waterbury Superior Court. A lawyer says the settlement was reached on the day before closing arguments. An attorney for the family says the award came years after the Orefice family proposed a $1 million settlement that the defendants refused.
Obviously, that jury must have seen some baaaaad evidence and the plaintiff’s lawyers were ready to put on a whale of a closing argument. Wonder if it was the defendants or their insurance company who decided to refuse the earlier offer?
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