Police reported yesterday that a third person died after being hit by a suspected drunken driver last week in Austin during the South by Southwest festival. Austin police spokeswoman Veneza Bremner stated that twenty-six-year-old Sandy Thuy Le died from injuries she sustained when she was struck early last Thursday outside…
An Indiana family is suing a parasailing company that provided equipment to their daughter in Panama City Beach last summer. The daughter, seventeen-year-old Alexis Fairchild, suffered serious injuries on July 1, 2013, when the rope that was tethering her and her friend, Sidney Good, to a boat snapped. After the…
A University of Iowa pharmaceutical lab is facing an unusual personal injury lawsuit in California that has already cost the school thousands in legal fees and will likely cost it many thousands more. The state of Iowa is paying a Los Angeles law firm around $500 per hour to fight…
Greyhound Lines, Inc. is facing a federal civil lawsuit brought by three passengers aboard a company bus that flipped over and crashed in Ohio in September. The three passengers who brought the lawsuit are Winston-Salem, NC resident Tyrone Allen, Detroit resident Rayvar Williams, and Halladay, TN resident Lorianne Stevens. The…
Two men were hit by a bus at the Omni Station in Miami earlier this month. A forty-four-year-old man and a seventy-four-year-old man, accompanied by his twelve-year-old grandson, were on their way to a Miami Heat basketball game when the two men were hit by a bus at the driveway…
A bicyclist traveling in Broward County was critically injured Tuesday when he was struck by an automobile and caught in the car’s smashed rear window. The alleged driver of the vehicle, twenty-seven-year-old Axel Inostroza, continued driving for two miles after the bicyclist became stuck. Once Inostroza arrived at his townhouse…
Two road workers in Tampa were struck by a car last Tuesday in the early morning hours while working along Tampa’s Dale Mabry Highway. The workers are now recovering from injuries sustained in the accident. A silver car driving down the highway veered off the road, jumped a curb, and…
A jury awarded $32 million this week to the family of a Southeast Texas couple involved in a fatal crash caused by a pizza delivery driver in August 2012. The jury determined that the pizza chain was partially responsible for the accident by not enforcing a policy that delivery drivers’…
A Los Angeles man was arrested on suspicion of murder after he allegedly got into his vehicle Saturday evening and proceeded to drive onto Venice Beach’s pedestrian-only boardwalk, plowing down crowds as he accelerated. An Italian woman on her honeymoon was killed in this seemingly intentional hit-and-run and at least…
Four vehicles were involved in a crash Wednesday afternoon in suburban Lake Worth, leaving a ninety-one-year-old woman in critical condition. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Nelda Dupere, a Royal Palm Beach resident, was transported via Trauma Hawk to Delray Medical Center. The sheriff’s crash report revealed that…