The family of Kristopher Smith, a 19-year-old who was hit and killed while riding his bicycle last year, is seeking $7.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Kristopher was hit by Charles Iott, who had a history of medical problems that impaired his driving ability. The lawsuit states Mr. Iott is a “dangerous driver who […]
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During the severe Western Washington windstorm earlier this month, many area parks were closed to the public. Parks of Olympic National Park were closed, as was Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, to name just a few examples. Seattle city parks, however, remained open as high-velocity winds whipped through trees. Tragically, Eric Medalle, a 42-year-old father
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In Florence, Oregon, Diane Richter has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against the nursing home that cared for her 83-year-old father, alleging that the facility didn’t do enough to address health symptoms that led to his death. Diane Richter’s father was in the care of Regency Florence from October 2014 through March 2015. Richter’s
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An average of six teenagers die daily from motor vehicle injuries, and in 2013 alone just under a million teenage drivers were involved in police-reported crashes. Predictably one in four teenagers will be in a crash in their first six months of driving. One of the largest contributing factors to this alarmingly high crash rate
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A suit has been filed on behalf of a young man who died in an excavator joyriding incident in May of 2014. 22-year-old Jared Lanphear met a man at a bar who invited him to operate the excavator at Farwest Portable Crushing Inc.’s work site. Allegedly the excavator slid off a cliff and a tree
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After the introduction of tightened schedules and a new type of bus, there has been a significant increase in the number of bus-pedestrian incidents, the majority of which occur when the bus makes a left hand turn, thereby creating a particularly large blind spot. Most recently, in December of 2015, 94-year-old Jacqueline Morrison was hit
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In the third lawsuit against Uber in recent months in the south Florida county of Miami-Dade, a couple is filing suit against Uber after a driver caused a wreck that left both passengers seriously injured. In December, Dr. Richard Day and Jean Day hailed a ride in an Uber. Ingrid Parra, the Uber driver,
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According to the US Transport Secretary Anthony Foxx, the recent crash between a Google self-driving car and bus is not a surprise, and although autonomous driving technology is not perfect, it is superior to what’s on our roads today. Accidents are inevitable, and driver-less technology should not be held to a standard of perfection. While
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Unregulated and unlicensed, the drug ‘Spice’ does not show up in standard drug testing and is linked to serious and sometimes fatal car crashes. A form of synthetic marijuana, the chemical compounds in spice are meant to mimic THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana. However, these toxic compounds lead to wildly unpredictable symptoms, ranging
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The number and types of motor vehicle crash deaths differ between the 50 United States. Statistics from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show data for Washington State that helps us understand factors that affects our State’s rates of motor vehicle deaths, including types of vehicles driven, travel speeds, weather, topography and other factors. The
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