Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Jersey City

A seven year-old girl died after a car crash that occurred on Monday, February 18 at around 12:30 P.M. The crash took place on the New Jersey Turnpike and injured the girl's mother and sister.Marianne Duffy, 38, of Chevy Chase, Md., was southbound on the highway in Mercer County, near Exit 8 in East Windsor, when she lost control of her car around 12:30 p.m. Monday, said state police Sgt....

On Saturday night, a man trying to stop his girlfriend from drinking and driving ended up being dragged under the girlfriend's car and died. Jesenia Vega was leaving a block party to drive home, when her boyfriend, Louis Wiederer, tried to stop her. According to a witness he told her,"You're going to get arrested, you can't drive like that." Wiederer was hanging onto the open side window of...

ABC News reports that 51,000 children required emergency medical attention for non-fatal school bus-related injuries and accidents over a three-year period. This is unacceptable and we need to make sure that these shool buses, from New Jersey to Florida to California are equipped with seat belts and trained and careful divers.

According to the Wichita Eagle, the four surviving children of a Wisconsin woman who was killed last year in an accident on the Kansas Turnpike have sued three trucking companies responsible for the crash.Relatives of Corrine Bartels, 64, of Platteville, Wis., sued the owner of the cab, the owner of the trailer it was hauling and the trucking company the driver was working for. Also sued was the...

According to the Jersey Journal, rapper Cassidy remains in critical condition at the Jersey City Medical Cente after a traffic crash caused a fractured skull and several fractured facial bones. The Philadelphia rapper reportedly was passing through Jersey City on his way to New York to continue work on his third album, slated for release later this year.

It is about time that victims of car accidents received a good ruling from Superior Court. A Pennsylvania woman who was struck by a car as she flagged traffic will be receive a $20 million award as upheld by the PA Superior Court. The driver of the vehicle raised multiple issues, all of which were rejected by the court. The woman is a single mother of three and suffered several broken bones and...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the family of a female cyclist who was struck by a vehicle will receive a $2.5 million settlement from the motorist's insurance carrier. The family's attorney believed the settlement to be "unusually high" considering the cyclist was 25 with no dependents. The family will use the settlement to establish a memorial scholarship at the University of Utah where...

In anothe example of out of control killer trucks on our roads, four people were killed and four others were hospitalized last Monday in a six-vehicle crash that closed a portion of the New Jersey Turnpike.According to the AP, the accident on the roadway's northbound express lanes was caused when a truck hauling bricks was unable to stop as it approached slowed traffic, state police said. The...

A SUV driven by an 89-year-old man plowed into pedestrians and vendors at an open-air public market, injuring 10 people.According to the Associated Press:Police said Bernard Newmark was looking for a specific vendor at the Rochester Public Market when his foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the accelerator, sending the vehicle through at least eight food stalls and into a shed.A total of...

Whenever your car breaks down on the road you need to be extra careful. A promising young fashion model was killed last weekend on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to Herald Tribune:She was en route to the airport in a car-service sedan Saturday morning when the vehicle broke down in the center lane of the turnpike, and was rear-ended by another vehicle. The New Jersey State Police confirmed...

It does not matter if you live in New Jersey or Florida, motorists need to keep watch for the big rigs that share their roads. Truck accidents are collisions involving large vehicles (gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds). Typically, these include semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, 18-wheelers or other commercial vehicles. Since they are tremendously larger and heavier than...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Asminstration (NHTSA) has reinforced it's warning that 15 passenger vans pose a serious rollover risk. These vans are unstable at high speeds, with more than 10 passengers or with imporoperly inflated tires and are often used to transport church groups, college students and workers.According to NewsInferno.com A new research report confirms that improper tire...

Police officers never know when or where an injury will occur. An Englewood, New Jersey police offers was struck by a speeding car and seriously injured as he was placing emergency road flares on Route 4.According to The RecordJason Calle, 21, was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, aggravated assault by an automobile while under the influence and...

Nearly 375 people were killed and 7,500 others were injured each year between the years 1997 and 2000 as a result of tired truck drivers report the Federal Motor Safety Administration. Greed is often the motavation as the longer truckers can drive the greater the potential revenue and profit for trucking companies. Driver fatigue and drowsiness can result in reckless behavior such as failure to...

Actor Tom Wopat, Luke Duke of the television series the Dukes of Hazzard, has been arrested for drunken driving in Ringwood, New Jersey.All Headline News reports:Passaic County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Bill Maer confirms that Wopat, 54, was driving a Ford Bronco when "he struck some orange traffic cones and nearly slammed into a Ringwood police vehicle at the scene of an unrelated...