Every year the department of motor vehicles releases a report called Virginia Driving Trends. This report details the total number of traffic crashes, fatalities and injuries across the Commonwealth of Virginia. It also breaks down the traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities by locality so each jurisdiction can see the local data. Traffic Crashes have increased [..]
On Sunday, January 7, 2018, Dallas Henry Massey drove a car with Earline Colvard Massey as a passenger. The driver failed to stop at a stop sign, hit an embankment, and overturned the car in Pittsylvania County. He went to Danville Regional Medical Center for treatment. First responders flew Earline Colvard Massey to Roanoke Memorial [..]
In most accidents, the person who was at fault stays at the scene of the wreck. He waits for an officer to come investigate and to take a report. When a person leaves the scene of an wreck, we call the a hit and run accident. In the last few months, negligent drivers fled the [..]
As a personal injury lawyer, there are always several insurance hacks that I constantly find myself talking about with current and former clients when it comes to insurance. Unfortunately, these conversations occasionally come up in the context of explaining why your current insurance is not good enough. Your insurance agent should discuss many of these [..]
You’re eating dinner, playing golf, swinging your kids, working, etc., and you keep getting these annoying phone calls on your cell phone from telemarketers. Or you get numerous phone calls from debt collectors. What can you do about it? Well, there are few things you can do about it. First, a little background: The Telephone [..]
Personal injury cases end one of three ways: You settle, you win with a jury, you lose with a jury. These are the only options you have at your disposal. At some point in every case the plaintiff has to ask the question, should I mediate and, then, should I settle at mediation? These are [..]
Yesterday WTVR.com reported that there will be no charges against the driver in the tractor trailer accident who fatally struck two kids running to a bus on Route 15 in Buckingham County yesterday. The whole ordeal is heartbreaking and for the families involved there is a great need for prayer and condolences. My mind races when I hear [..]
The Virginia State Police reported a two-car collision that caused seriously injured to one on Sunday, December 18, 2016 afternoon. The car wreck happened on Jay Bird Hill Road about a half mile west of Stone Mill Road around 3:15 Saturday afternoon. The Trooper said one car crossed the center-double-yellow line and hit another car [..]
The icy conditions in Lynchburg on Saturday lead to numerous collisions and crashes. Some were minor with no injuries and others were fatal. In Amherst, Virginia, Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal three-vehicle crash where Larry S. McCauley, 71, of Madison Heights, has been identified as the victim. Police say the crash happened at [..]
Virginia State Police are investigating a crash involving four vehicles and one fatality on Saturday morning According to WSET, “the crash was on Interstate 81 at the 128.1-mile marker, just north of Route 603 in Montgomery County.” There were four vehicles involved: a Jeep SUV, a Toyota Scion, a Toyota Avalon, and a Toyota pick-up [..]
