MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS Since records of the “rate of traffic fatalities” have been kept, 2009 has recorded the lowest rate ever! “Fatality rate” involves the number of traffic fatalities combined with the number of miles traveled. In just the last year alone, there was an 8.9% in the number of deaths reported: 37,261 in 2008 [...]
As Reported by the New York Times, “For the second time in five weeks, a New York City police officer has been arrested on charges of killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, this time in the Bronx, officials said on Friday. Drana Nikac, 67, was killed. The scene, Kingsbridge Avenue at West 232nd Street in [...]
It is truly unfortunate whenever those sworn to uphold the laws upon which our society is based proceed to violate those very same laws. It was our founding father, John Adams, who first stated the now often heard truism that the United States is “a nation of laws, not of men”. That regardless of a [...]
As Reported by ktla.com An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was riding in overturned, and the driver has been charged with driving while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter. The accident happened early Sunday on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan. Police say 31-year-old Carmen Huertas was driving with seven children, including her own [...]
DRAM SHOP ACT RECENT CASE A TWIST ON WHO CAN SUE THE BAR OWNER As we saw in the previous post on Drunk Driving Lawsuits in New York, an injured person may sue the bar that provided liquor to a visibly intoxicated person, who caused the injury. If the person that was intoxicated injured themselves, [...]
This is a very interesting and sad New York Wrongful Death / Personal Injury Case.
Recent Case Against A New York Homeowner! A licensed New York driver, a minor, leaving a party with a passenger in the car, lost control of the car and drove the car into a tree. The passenger was seriously injured. The passenger sued several individuals, among them the owner of the premises where the party [...]
Contiued From DRAM SHOP ACT: DRUNK AND UNDERAGED IN NEW YORK FIRST POST IN SERIES : DRAM SHOP LAWS IN NEW YORK Those That Serve Alcohol can be Sued for Drunk Driving Accidents in New York When a person drives while intoxicated and causes an accident, any person injured in that accident caused by the [...]
