California

A two-vehicle accident near Westampton has killed 61-year-old Johnnie Dixon, a Willingboro resident and proved to be the third motor vehicle related fatality crash of 2009 to occur in Burlington County. According to a recent news report in the Burlington County Times, the Burlington tractor-trailer accident happened on Woodlane Road in icy conditions when the area was under heavy fog. Dixon was driving his Toyota [...]

The news website Fair Warning reports that a chemical found in common household products, as well as a contaminant in groundwater, has been linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) in a new study. Published in the Annals of Neurology, the study looked at 99 sets of twins in which one of the twins suffered from Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that is progressive and causes uncontrollable shaking. The st [...]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday, January 31 that they did not find a link between 11 deaths of people and the homes they lived in with Chinese drywall that corroded metals and emitted an unpleasant odor, according to a report in Consumer Affairs. The CDC had been looking into the deaths in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia after hundreds of homeowners complained about he [...]

Toyota and runaway vehicles made the headlines in the beginning of 2010. Now the class action lawsuits are slowly moving through the courts, but a problem has presented itself- where are the injuries? When some consumers got behind the wheel of their Toyota Prius, Lexus, or Camry, and it took off uncontrollably, sometimes hitting other vehicles, there was property damage but often little human damage besides a goo [...]

You see this situation all the time: a tow truck arrives on the scene of a stranded car along the interstate. This time, the tow truck driver was hit and killed by a passing car on Interstate 95. The Palm Beach Post reports the accident happened Monday, January 2, as the 46-year-old employee of Emerald Towing pulled alongside a disabled vehicle on Interstate 95 south of Woolbright Road. The car’s owner was nowher [...]

An 83-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed on Monday, June 13, by a Kia Sedona as he reportedly walked in its path while in a crosswalk on County Road 54 near the intersection of U.S. 301. According to witnesses, the oncoming traffic had the green light, reports TBO.com. The pedestrian was transported to a local hospital where he later died. Our condolences are extended to the friends and family members of th [...]

News 4 Jax reports that one pedestrian was killed and another was injured when they were hit by a pickup truck while walking on U.S. Highway 1 in St. Johns County on Wednesday night, May 11. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the 35-year-old man and the 32-year-old woman, both from Hastings, were walking northbound just past North Boulevard around 10 p.m. when a 20-year-old behind the wheel of an Isuzu [...]

A division of Johnson and Johnson, DePuy Orthopedics, issued a recall notice to all patients who used two of their devices. The DePuy ASR XL Aceabular Hip System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System, both a commonly used hip replacement device, were recalled due to the high failure rate of these devices. The Failure Rate of a DePuy Device Hip replacement surgery is expected to last i [...]

Fatal motorcycle accidents continue to increase this year as another life was taken away earlier this month when a man crashed his chopper into a police car on Route 65 near the Arizona-California border. According to SFGate.com, the victim, a 56-year-old man from Minnesota, lost control of his motorcycle due to a medical emergency. He struck the police cruiser after having crossed [...]

pIn a hotly contested legal battle in Sacramento, California, a jury awarded three plaintiffs $73 million in a lawsuit claiming that the Ford Motor Company was negligent and exhibited “despicable conduct” as well as “maliciousness or oppression” over their failure to warn customers and dealers that it had a defective tire on a 15-passenger E-350 Econoline van which plaintiffs claim was unsafe in its own rig [...]