An eleven-year-old Orange County boy was riding his bike to school when he was hit by a van and hospitalized with head injuries. The 1970 Volkswagen van struck him around 8:30 a.m. near Brookdale Lane and Sunridge Drive in Huntington Beach, California. The accident occurred just blocks from Isaac Sowers Middle School in a residential…
A judge in Morris County, New Jersey recently increased a $100,000 pain and suffering award to $1 million in a product liability lawsuit against Yamaha Motors Company, the manufacturer of the snowmobile involved in the plaintiff’s accident. The case is unusual because judges are far more likely to reduce an award (called remittitur) than adjust…
A worker whose job it was to clean the It’s a Small World ride at Euro Disney died in a tragic accident at work while cleaning one of the ride’s boats. The ride was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning, and the worker became trapped under one of the boats. The fifty-three year old…
A 64-year-old man in a wheelchair fell onto the BART tracks and was hit by a train at the Hayward BART station in the California Bay Area. The victim, Curtis Fuller, survived, but was treated at the trauma center at Eden Medical Center and admitted to the critical care unit. Witnesses say Fuller appeared to…
A 29-year old Canadian woman visiting California was killed in a head on collision on Highway 1 near Santa Cruz. Her infant son, Kyler, sustained two skull fractures and is in intensive care, but stable and expected to survive. Jaye Wass was driving northbound up the coast for some sightseeing after spending the afternoon in…
James Laing, 46, was killed by a hit and run driver around 3:45 pm on a Saturday afternoon while bicycling on Augora Road in Augora Hills, California. Laing, a resident of West Hills, was traveling eastbound in the bike lane, just east of Liberty Canyon Road when a car, also eastbound, hit Laing on his…
During a recent visit by President Obama to Portland, OR a motorcyclist was killed when security measures on Interstate 84 snarled traffic, causing a traffic accident. The westbound lanes were completely closed to accommodate the President’s motorcade, and eastbound traffic ground to a halt when motorists slowed down, hoping to catch a glimpse of the…
Despite an appeal by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has once again denied federal disaster aid to the victims of the San Bruno, California gas line explosion. Thirty-five homes were destroyed and eight people killed when the PG&E gas line exploded in September of this year. FEMA maintains that local resources…
An Orange County, California woman was killed when she lost control of a go-kart in a flea market parking lot and careened into the adjoining street, where she was struck by a car and instantly killed. 67-year old Fullerton resident Hwa Oh was helping her sister who was a vendor at an Orange County swap…
Twenty-year-old Declan Sullivan was killed while filming a University of Notre Dame football practice from a hydraulic scissor lift as part of his on-campus job. The lift was extended to a height that just exceeded the football goal posts, and either blew over or collapsed in a strong gust of wind during the team’s practice,…
