Automobile Accidents

• Two Killed In 100 Car Pile Up On Foggy Highway Near Madison

  David Lowe | January 06, 2008 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  At least two people have been killed and more than 50 injured people have been sent to Madison area hospitals after more than 100 vehicles collided in foggy conditions on Interstate 90 on Madison's east side on Sunday afternoon, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol. The pile ups involved two incidents, just south of Highway 12-18, with collisions occurring on both sides of the...

• Motorist Killed By Flying Truck Tire Raises Uninsured Motorist Coverage Questions

  David Lowe | November 09, 2007 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  In a bizarre tragedy Thursday evening, a Mequon, Wisconsin motorist was killed when a truck tire came loose from a truck traveling southbound on I-43, bounced over a retaining wall, and struck the windshield of the man's 2007 BMW. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner announced today that the victim, Krishma Chintamaneni, 55, died at the scene. The driver of the semi from which the tire came...

• Kenosha Bus Accident Injures 22 Students

  Paul Jacquart | September 07, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  WTMJ4 reports that 22 Bradford High School students were injured in a bus crash in Kenosha on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. According to the article, the bus crashed into a car driven by another Bradford High School student who reportedly pulled in front of the bus cutting it off on 39th Avenue, south of Bradford High School. Another news report from WSAW indicates that the car subsequently...

• School Bus Accidents Studied in Virginia News Story

  David Lowe | August 06, 2007 7:46 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Yesterday the Virginia-Pilot published a story by Marc Davis reporting that local municipalities paid about $7.5 million to more than 1,700 victims of accidents in 2004, 2005 and 2006 for wrecks caused by city cars, buses and trucks. About a third of the accidents involved school buses. The story makes the point that reliable data are not kept about the frequency of such accidents. But the...

• Turn Off the iPhone While Driving

  David Lowe | July 02, 2007 7:34 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  I had the chance this weekend to visit an Apple Store and try out a one of Apple's new iPhones. I couldn't help but think that we'll have a new rash of cell phone car accidents as drivers go through their learning curve on the remarkable device--while behind the wheel. It is already well known that the distraction of cell phone use by drivers has caused many accidents. Those of us who handle...

• Verdict for Wheelchair Passenger Injured Due to Improper Application of Occupant Restraints

  David Lowe | June 10, 2007 7:16 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Been in trial so I haven't blogged for awhile.But the case was quite interesting, involving wheelchair transportation safey issues. My client, Russell Worth is an 83 year old T-12 paraplegic, having suffered injuries 16 years ago in a motor vehicle accident. But despite his age and physical disability, was very active as a participant in the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in...

• Traumatic Brain Injury-- The Long Road to Recovery

  David Lowe | April 19, 2007 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Traumatic brain injury is a frequent and devastating consequence of a car accident. A column by award winning writer Crocker Stephenson in today's Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel provides a poignant account of a couple driving their car on a foggy day, broadsided by a delivery truck, and each left with serious consequences of brain injury from the force of the brain slamming into the skull that...

• Jury Finds Dodge Dakota "Park to Reverse" Defect Killed Owner

  David Lowe | March 08, 2007 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A Los Angeles, California jury has awarded $55 million to the wife of a man killed in an accident involving a park to reverse defect in a 1992 Dodge Dakota. The owner, Richard Mraz, placed the vehicle in what appeared to be "park position", began to walk away, and the vehicle started moving in reverse. Mraz tried to jump back in the vehicle to stop it while it was moving, but was run over and...

• Intersection Design Examined In Wake of Tragic Georgia Bus Accident

  David Lowe | March 07, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  National Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on dangerous highway design in their search for the cause of the tragic Georgia bus accident that took the lives of four students, the bus driver and the driver's wife on March 2, 2007 when the driver apparently mistook an exit ramp in Atlanta as a regular traffic lane. The bus drove up the exit ramp and slammed into a barrier at an...

• Allstate and State Farm Hard Ball Strategy: Take It Or Leave It

  David Lowe | February 12, 2007 5:06 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A report published by CNN after an 18 month investigation about minor impact soft tissue injury cases reveals that victims in these auto accident cases are likely to be shortchanged when it comes to compensation. These accident victims, though they are not at fault, have little leverage when dealing with insurance adjusters because accident attorneys are often reluctant to accept cases...