Health, Safety & Personal Injury Law Blog
June 22, 2022 • Auto Accidents,Charleston WV Crash
One Person Hospitalized After Head-On Crash in Charleston, WV
CHARLESTON, WV — At least one person was hospitalized after a car accident in the Charleston area of Kanawha City. The auto accident happened around 9:00 a.m. on June 21 at the intersection of MacCorkle Avenue and 31st St., SE, near Charleston’s CAMC Memorial Hospital. Online photos confirmed Kanawha Metro’s report that it was a…
read moreJanuary 27, 2021 • Auto Accidents,Big Truck & Bus Safety,WV Trucking Accidents
Large Truck Accident Injuries and Deaths on the Rise in WV — But Why?
CHARLESTON, WV — From 2009 to 2018 the number of large truck and bus accidents increased 70 percent, and there are now over 121,000 such accidents per year. UPDATE: In 2019 (the most recent truck crash data from NHTSA), large truck crashes killed 5,005 people and injured about 159,000! If everyone knows truck accidents are…
read moreNovember 19, 2020 • Auto Accidents,automobile safety,Pedestrian Safety
Investigators Say SD Attorney General Distracted in Fatal Pedestrian Crash
Dangers of Distracted Driving: Real Life Example About 6,000 pedestrians are killed each year in traffic crashes in the U.S. That’s about one pedestrian death every 88 minutes. Distracted driving causes many of these fatal crashes despite the fact that most states have enacted laws to reduce distracted driving, including bans on cell phone use…
read moreJuly 10, 2020 • Auto Accidents,Car Accidents
Crash Reconstruction Finds Fairmont, WV Cop Drove Twice the Speed Limit in Fatal Crash
Eight months — that’s how long it took for Steven Gene Santini’s family to find out that maybe his driving wasn’t the cause of his horrific death. The crash that killed Mr. Santini occurred in July of 2019 in Fairmont, West Virginia. Santini was only a block away from his home when a Fairmont Police…
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