Automobile Accidents

• Ford Recalls 109,664 Police Cars

  IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptors Recalled.Ford Motor Company has announced a voluntary recall of 2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptor police cruisers built between, October 10, 2001 and December 8, 2004, at an assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ontario due to a wheel defect in the automobile's steel wheels according to various news sources.The defective wheels of the Interceptors have been found...

• Bus Plunges Off Overpass

  IB Contributor | March 03, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Four college students and two others die in bus accident.A chartered bus carrying a college baseball team flipped over the concrete railing of a Georgia interstate overpass early Friday morning and dropped 24 feet to the highway below killing six people and injury 29 others, according to a story in the Orange County Register.The baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio was traveling to ...

• Another SUV Rollover Fatal Auto Accident

  IB Contributor | February 28, 2007 1:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Driver overcorrection dooms SUV to rolling over.A Toyota 4-Runner overturned in a single vehicle SUV accident causing the death of driver and injuries to three others late Monday night in an area just north of the Dallas Fort Worth airport. Of the three injured passengers, two were taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and the other was treated and released at the scene. This is...

• Man Receives Maximum in Hit-and-Run

  Christina Cole | February 25, 2007 5:21 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Judge Sentences Man to Maximum in Hit-and-Run Case.A judge has sentenced a homeless man to four years prison time for fleeing the scene of a car accident that has left two Orange County women permanently disabled. The judge issued the maximum sentence despite both women's pleas for leniency.Both women, through their attorney, say they forgive Bradshaw for the accident and also noted his decision...

• Jury Awards $10.3 million In Pedestrian Death Case

  IB Contributor | February 07, 2007 11:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  L.A. Unified School District held responsible.The family of a six year old girl who was struck and killed by a van in her school's parking lot two years ago was awarded $10.3 million by a Los Angeles jury, according to an Associated Press news report. The jury concluded that the Los Angeles Unified School District was primarily responsible for the accident.The wrongful death lawsuit filed by...

• Freak Freeway Accident Takes A Mother's Life

  IB Contributor | February 04, 2007 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Spilled Load Causes Freeway FatallityThrough the years, we have represented a few thousand clients. Each of them has a special story to tell. Each of them has suffered some tragic loss due to some accident or negligence.Alvin Austin is one of our clients whom we have had the pleasure of representing. Alvin's wife of 23 years, Beverly, died in July in a traffic accident. Beverly Austin was...

• Law Suit Filed Over Teen's ATV Accident Death

  IB Contributor | January 28, 2007 6:36 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  The parents of a 15-year-old girl, who was killed while riding an all-terrain vehicle on a Florida ranch, are suing the ranching family with a claim of wrongful death, according to a news report in the Orlando Sentinel.Taylor Rae Bronson, also 15, was driving the ATV on the ranch on Nov. 29 when she lost control of the vehicle and her passenger, Analisa DelSonno, was thrown off the vehicle....

• Department of Transportation "Beefing Up" 5-Star Rating

  IB Contributor | January 09, 2007 8:31 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  How about a real crash worthiness rating system?The U.S. Department of Transportation will be beefing up its requirements for the "five-star" safety rating (highest government rating), much coveted by automakers, according to an announcement made Monday by U. S. Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters at the International Auto Show in Detroit.The department's proposals are outlined in the New...

• Honda Tried To "Win By Cheating"

  IB Contributor | December 30, 2006 8:07 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Tiral Laywers For Public Justice, Wins Victory For JusticeAmerica Honda Motor Company (Honda) "deliberately" destroyed evidence in an auto defect case brought be a (then) 17 year old who became a quadriplegic due to a restraint system (seat belt) failure in her Honda Civic, according to the trial judge's sanction decision in Davis v. Honda (California Superior Court). The judge's decision found...

• Police Officer Pulls Driver from Burning Vehicle

  Chrissie Cole | August 17, 2007 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A driver traveling on the Southland Freeway struck the center divider causing his engine to catch fire in a car accident on Friday. Trapped in the vehicle, the man owes his life to an L.A. police officer who pulled him from the burning vehicle. To rescue him, the officer had to break the passenger window of the burning vehicle. Fortunately, the man only suffered a broken collar bone in the...