2010 May Archive

Justin Plank, a 21-year-old man, was injured on May 12 at a gas station in Norwalk, CT after a steel beam fell off a payloader and struck him in the leg. According to this article, Plank was guiding a 16-foot steel pillar into place at when a chain wrapped around the claw-bucket holding the beam slipped. The beam crashed to the ground and cut a gash into his lower left leg. Plank, who works for East Hartford-based [...]

On May 4, a head-on collision in Eastern Pennsylvania killed two elderly women and critically injured two other people. According to this Tribune Democrat article on, the two women were in a car heading south on Route 873 in North Whitehall Township, PA when an oncoming car veered into their lane and hit the vehicle. The article said that the 74-year-old woman and 83-year-old woman of Slatington died as a result [...]

A recent article in The Legal Intelligencer discusses an annual court study which reveals that a 44% drop in the amount of medical malpractice filings has occurred. This decline is attributed to reform procedures initiated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2003. The article mentions that PA medical malpractice cases must be filed in counties where the alleged malpractice and subsequent patient harm occurred. In [...]

On April 2, one man was killed and two people were seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash near Millsboro, Delaware. According to this article on www.delawareonline.com, a 1998 Dodge Caravan westbound on Del. 24 collided with a 2004 Chrysler Sebring that was southbound on Careys Camp Road and failed to stop at a stop sign. The front of the Sebring struck the right front side of the Caravan. A 77-year-old passenge [...]

According to this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a 20-year-old man from South Philadelphia was sentenced to seven to 14 years in prison for the incident in which he was driving under the influence of marijuana. The driver ran down two women after a Phillies game in 2008. One of the pedestrians was killed and the other woman was permanently disabled. Police say the two women left the stadium after the base [...]

On March 7, a man from Colwyn and a woman from Upper Darby, PA were critically injured when an alleged drunken driver slammed into them as they crossed MacDade Boulevard. The victims are hospitalized are undergoing treatment for severe injuries. According to this article in the Delaware County Times, as the man and woman crossed MacDade Blvd., a woman was driving toward them at a high rate of speed. The police ch [...]

It is normal and a very common thing to take a walk when visiting a new city especially with your significant other. Unfortunately, a tragic story unfolded on the streets of New York City recently when a husband and wife from Britain were run down by a garbage truck driver who forgot to take his anti-seizure medicine, according to a story on the nypost.com website. The avoidable accident happened in February 2008 a [...]

On November 24, a woman swerved across three lanes on Marshall Road in Upper Darby, PA to get around a traffic jam and slammed her car into two school children. She then drove on at high speed and hit a third boy, which threw him against a building and left him in a coma. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a 12-year-old is in critical but stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. [...]

On November 3, 8-year-old twins were mowed down by a hit-and-run driver in Crescentville, PA. According to an article in the Philadelphia Daily News, the sisters were on their way to a corner store at Cheltenham Avenue and Colgate Street when they were struck by a gray Lincoln Town Car that sped from the scene. One of the girls suffered only bumps and bruises and was treated for minor injuries at St. Christopher [...]

The Delaware County driver who lost control of her car while reaching for an iPod, killing one woman and injuring another, was found to have drugs in her system. According to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the 20-year-old female of Havertown tested positive for marijuana and Difluoroethane, an ingredient found in Dust-Off, a can of compressed air used to clean computers. The Upper Darby superintendent of [...]