Category: Personal Injury

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced recently that it had recalled more than 17.8 million products during 2012. The NHTSA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is responsible for setting safety standards for vehicles and products related to vehicles, investing alleged defects, and announcing and tracking safety…

An 87-year-old resident of a nursing home in Stanwood, Wash., was charged with first-degree assault recently in the shooting of a nursing home worker, according to a news report. The resident told police that the nursing home employee had been abusing and bullying him. The worker, who was shot twice…

As if to keep everyone from getting bored, winter weather in the Yakima Valley area is unpredictable. Rain can turn quickly to ice and snow. Slip-and-fall accidents, which can cause traumatic injuries, are among our winter hazards. They include not just slips but accidents in which a victim trips, slides,…

An SUV carrying five people went off State Road 28 east of East Wenatchee last month and slid down an embankment, according to a report in the Yakima Herald. Two passengers, including a 9-year-old, were injured. The Washington State Patrol said the driver had been going too fast for road…

Authorities say that speed played a role in a tragic car accident this month that took the lives of two Grandview High School teenagers and left another one fighting for his life. According to news reports, the three teens were in a Dodge Neon on the night of January 8…

Experts warn that you should proceed with extreme care if you must pull over on a highway. Two teens were injured recently in the median of Interstate 82, about three miles west of Benton City, Wash., when they were struck by a passing SUV, according to a report by the…

As anyone who lives in the Yakima Valley area knows, the roads can become treacherous quickly during the winter. Rain can turn to sleet and ice as daytime temperatures drop, causing the roads to become a virtual sheet of ice. Mountain passes can become nearly impossible to navigate as snow…

The issue of drowsy, or fatigued, driving is in the news again after the release of a survey by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The largest survey completed to date includes responses from 147,076 drivers to questions about insufficient sleep. The results are alarming. According to the survey,…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants all passenger vehicles to come equipped with “black boxes” in the future. Black boxes, also known as event recorders, have been used in other areas of the transportation industry for years, but the NHTSA would like to see them installed in passenger vehicles…

The Washington State Department of Transportation has made significant efforts to understand why some drivers travel the wrong way on interstates and to determine what can be done to prevent these potentially fatal mistakes. On the heels of a recent fatal wrong-way crash in Ritzville, Wash., another wrong-way accident in…