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I hope this case reminds all of us who have one too many at a bar or at dinner, that there are serious consequences for the harm you cause. This 24 year old man was at a bar celebrating New Years. ...

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One of the most devasting injuries seen in auto wreck cases are those who become quadriplegic. The standard dictionary definition is a paralysis of the arms and legs, but it is much much more. For...

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When it comes time to renew your insurance policy stop and think about what you are doing Are you renewing because you have always done business with a certain company The times are changing and...

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Spring is here and with it the continuing tragedies of teens killed in auto accidents The latest sad story is the death of a popular 17 year old New Jersey student A good kid a football player...

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Many clients who have been harmed as the result of the fault of others are finding out how bad Medicare can be. Those who have brought valid auto crash, medical malpractice or construction site...

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Another Springtime - another tragic teen driver death in New Jersey. There are over 8,000 teen deaths each year from auto crashes. They begin to pick up as the weather gets nicer and the teens take their friends for rides. Interestingly, alcohol and drugs are not major factors in these deaths. Rather, the inexperience and distractions that come from teen driving are the primary...

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Oklahama was the latest location of recent grade crossing deaths. Three died in two separate grade crossing incidents on the same day in collisions with Union Pacific trains. The dead were teenagers Josh Ertle and Jennifer Gordy who were killed trying to drive around a grade crossing and Jason Checotah, 29, who tried to cross at a closed intersecton. Both incidents happened in broad...

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Imagine an American child dying a needless death every third day of every year. That is the latest statistic on ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) deaths in 2006 as reported by the Consumer Products Safety Commission. These 100 child death cases do not include another 455 adult death cases in the same year. Imagine - 555 deats blamed on ATV crashes in a single year. If that wasn't bad enough,...

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When a bunch of young adults go out to drink on a weekend and then decide to drive, the consequences can be devasting to them and to their victims. Everyone knows you must not drink and drive. The problem stems from the fact that when you are drunk, you may not remember that rule. That is why the designated driver rule is so important. Also, bartenders and servers must NEVER serve...

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It was a hot summer afternoon in July, 2004. Bill Carawan, 28, and his two brothers, Len, 20, and Jason, 26, along with a friend, were out for a ride. It was estimated that Bill's Mustang was going 113 miles per hour when it struck a Toyota driven by Emma Roof, 65, of Kure Beach. She was killed and her husband Ralph was seriously injured. The three passengers in Bill's car were killed....

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Imagine. A mother and her children are on an interstate in their minivan, obeying the traffic laws. Coming in the opposite direction is a 24 year old drunk driver whose blood alcohol reading was three times the legal limit. This tragedy played out on an interstate near Toledo, Ohio. The brother of the drunk driver said "he wasn't supposed to be driving, but somehow he left and now he...

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The town of Moorestown, NJ, was ranked as the best place to live in 2005 by Money magazine. This week it suffered a horrible tragedy as two of its high school seniors died in separate car accidents one week apart. The latest happened Friday night when a car went over the center line of Route 38 in Burllington County and killed the teen, who was a passenger in the car that was struck. The...

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There are about 50,000 auto accident victims a year. That's 136 per day. And millions of injuries. Many of these deaths and injuries can be avoided by simply buckling up. Seven more died yesterday near the central Callifornia town of Kettleman City when their SUV went off the road. It is believed that no one was wearing their seat belts. Please be safe and use your belts and insist...

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The prestigious Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm looked at 30,000 auto crashes involving children between the ages of 4 and 8. They found the 80% of these children were using adult seat belts and not booster seats. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found the fewer than 7% of the 20 million children between the ages of 4 and 8 used booster...

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Ending daylight saving time tonight will translate into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November compared to October according to a newly released study from Carnegie Mellon University. The researchers found it isn't the darkness itself, but the adjustment to the earlier nighttime that is the killer. Good advice: carry a flashlight to warn oncoming motorists and just be...

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