Roanoke Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Automobile Accidents

Medical Examiner pronounces man dead - except he is not. Charlotte North Carolina - man is in a serious car accident, and county Medical Examiner pronounces him dead. Problem is the man is still alive, and does not receive proper medical care for life threatening injuries.This is almost as odd as something out of a CSI episode - except its true, and someone is now living in a nursing home...

I know how blessed I am that I have never been in a serious car accident... but I know from working with families that have had such an experience, that they can be devastating. Bills. Bill Collectors. Missed Work. Appointments. Missed activities, vacations, employment opportunities. The list goes on and on - and while most of the time there is sufficient insurance to cover the damages, we...

Why do we see too many teenagers killed on our highways? There cannot be a greater loss than the unnecessary death of a child or young adult...and it has happened again in Southwest Virginia!The Roanoke Times reports today that, LeAndra Milliner, a 16 year old Shawsville girl died Tuesday afternoon, October 2, in a single car accident. LeAndra was a junior at Eastern Montgomery High School...

A 16-year-old high school student at Covington High School was killed in a single-car accident on Wednesday. The victim was a passenger in the back seat and he was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. Investigators think the 17-year-old driving the car was speeding, and detectives estimate he was going about 85 MPH on the Hot Springs/Covington exit. The speed limit for the...

Two teenagers from Cana, Virginia were killed after riding in the bed of a pickup truck. A third victim was killed after not wearing a seatbelt in the cab of the truck. The truck was being driven by an underage and unlicensed driver. The car accident happened on Sunday in Hillsville. The accident occurred on Virginia 690 in Carroll County, about two miles north of the North Carolina border....

A semi-truck making an unsafe lane change on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County hit a car. The truck accident was during the evening rush hour and caused a traffic slowdown. The driver of the car was taken to a local hospital to be treated for her injuries. The driver of the truck switched from the right lane to the left lane and, in doing so, struck a 2005 Pontiac Vibe. After striking the...

A car and a semi-truck where involved in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 77 in Carroll County. The accident happened on Friday morning and caused many traffic delays. It happened in the southbound lanes at mile marker 20, north of Hillsville. Witnesses told authorities that a car traveling too fast ran up under a tractor trailer. Both vehicles wrecked and caught fire. Both drivers of...

A graduating senior from Giles High School was involved in a single car accident after her graduation ceremony. The 17-year-old girl was driving by herself to a party when she hit a tree. "We arrived and she had struck a tree," Compton said. "It's not known what happened. A deer could have gone out in front of her, or she could have been dialing a cellphone. It's unknown and under...

A 69-year-old man from Falls Church, Virginia has been charged with misdemeanor death with a motor vehicle following. The charge stems from a car accident in which his 65-year-old wife was killed. He was driving on Interstate 95 when he struck a camping trailer that was on the shoulder of the road. The trooper said he did not believe heavy winds played a factor in the crash. The estimated...

A Roanoke County man was killed in a single car accident on Tuesday April 10th. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital to be treated for her injuries. Police say it happened around 10:42 when a car ran the stop sign at Rome Drive and Crumpacker Drive. The car went straight through the intersection, hit an embankment and overturned.Both people in the car were wearing their seatbelts....

A man drove into a utility pole along Plantation Road in Roanoke, damaging the pole and shutting down traffic on both sides of the street January 18th.The car was in the northbound lane when the driver lost control, drove into and through a yard, and finally hit a utility pole. Work crews needed to repair the pole and were on the scene for several hours. The driver of the car was not seriously...

Nicholas Edward Janney, age 25, was in a car that drove off the road and the vehicle flipped. He died and the other person in the car suffered life-threatening injuries.The accident was on Loch Haven Drive in the 2500 block. Amber Michelle Keith, age 19, was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Police report that neither Janney nor Keith was wearing seat belts. They are not sure who...

A New Mexico jury has awarded nearly $11,000,000.00 in damages against Allstate Insurance Company to an Albuquerque lawyer because they ruined her legal practice. Allstate Insurance Company had routinely hired Suzanne Guest, an Albuquerque lawyer, to represent the company in defense of personal injury claims; however, when Guest and Allstate were sued by two people she had injured, the company...

An article published at Insure.com by Joe Fray has raised serious questions regarding the insurance industries' practices in valuing cars that are total losses under automobile collision coverage. Instead of using widely and publicly available data such as the Kelly Blue Book and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Guide, insurance companies have largely gone to private...

Last week, a 15 year-old child was struck by a car while crossing Route 11, south of Buchanan, Virginia. The child had been let off of an activity bus from his high school which was stopped there with its lights flashing while the child crossed Route 11, which at that location was a four-lane, 55mph highway. The problem was that it was 6:30 p.m. and it was dark and the high visibility that our...