Posted on August 31st, 2010
The Georgia Department of Transportation has settled a wrongful death case with the family of a woman who was killed after a taxi cab drove off the side of the road and struck a tree.
The Georgia DOT will pay $600,000 to the family of the woman and also expressed their apologies to the children and husband of the woman. The accident occurred in 2003 as the woman was picked up by a cab at the airport and was on her way to a business trip when the cab driver lost control on the slick roadway. The woman was killed instantly.
The lawsuit claimed that the tree that the cab struck was put to close to the roadway and that the Georgia DOT was negligent when designing that area of the highway. The suit was put off for many years and finally went to trial when the lawsuit added that the section of the intersection was too steep and had a bad drainage system. DOT is planning to cut down more trees by the interstate as well.
Posted on August 24th, 2010
A 20-year-old man from Georgia was killed in a motorcycle and truck accident in Scranton.
According to authorities, the accident occurred as the man pulled out of the a gas station on Main Ave. around 10:40 a.m. and collided with the truck. The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
The 73-year-old man and 43-2-year-old woman that were in the truck were also transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The accident cause Main Ave. to be closed for hours as investigators gathered information from the scene.
Accidents can cause serious injury and can change the lives of many people involved, our thoughts are with the friends and family of the victim.
Posted on August 17th, 2010
The Georgia court of appeals has recently reaffirmed a decision regarding an a woman who is suing after a an alleged negligent surgery. The appeals court upheld a decision that a plaintiff’s expert had not been in the field for three of the five years before the incident in question and that he was at fault.
The complaint stated that there was medical negligence when a woman had a cystoscopy surgery following a hysterectomy. The complaint also said that the woman underwent too many surgeries in short amount of time and that physicians failed to refer her to a more skilled doctor.
The court decided that although the doctor was very experienced, he was not an expert in the field and should not have done the surgery.
If you or a loved one has been the victim in a medical negligence case, contact the Atlanta surgical errors lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson LLC by calling 760-631-1811.
Posted on August 10th, 2010
An car accident on Poplar Road left one man injured. The accident occurred as motorists made there way to the first day of school.
The accident occurred at an intersection when a woman was attempting to make a left turn onto Poplar Road and failed to yield to a vehicle. She was then struck by the second vehicle on the rear, driver’s side door.
This collision caused both cars to spin before coming to a stop. The woman was transported to Atlanta Medical Center with a laceration on her head. The three people that were in the second vehicle were examined at the scene, but did not need to go to the hospital.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident, contact the Atlanta car accident lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor &Thompson LLC by calling 770-631-1811 today.
Posted on August 3rd, 2010
A school bus was involved in an accident on Ga. Highway 212 in Rockdale County.
The accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 212 and Oglesby Bridge Road as the driver was picking the students up for their first day of school. According to authorities, the driver of a red Mitsubishi rear-ended the school while it was stopped. The car suffered significant damage.
The school bus had nine students and a driver, but none of them had to go to the hospital after the accident. The driver of the car suffered non-life threatening injuries. Georgia State Patrol will be investigating the accident.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a bus accident, you need experienced representation on your side. Contact the Atlanta bus accident lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson, LLC by calling 770-631-1811 today.
Posted on July 30th, 2010
A woman was struck by vehicle in a bicycle accident in Bryan County. The woman was training for the Chicago Marathon when the accident occurred. This incident and another one similar to it have shown that something needs to be done in order to keep cyclists safe on the roadway.
A police team that is investigating to see if there are any trends between the bicycling accidents in order to make changes said that no obvious trends appear. In the 20 collisions that were reported this year, no trends were shown.
Factors such as drugs and alcohol or the time of day the accident occurred have varied in all of the accidents. The sheriff’s department have said that extra enforcement on heavily driven roads may help reduce collisions.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a bicycle accident, contact the Atlanta bicycle accident lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson LLC by calling 770-631-1811 today.
Posted on July 27th, 2010
A MARTA rail worker who pulled a woman out of the path of a train has spoken in an interview about the incident.
The man was standing near the train when he watched the woman fall into the path of an oncoming train. The woman was visually impaired and walked right off of the platform onto the tracks.
The rail operator had about five seconds to get the train to stop. The woman had said that the incident was the scariest thing that has ever happened to her and she is extremely grateful that the man saved her life.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a train accident, you need experienced representation on your side. Contact the Atlanta railroad accident lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson LLC by calling 770-631-1811.
Posted on July 23rd, 2010
Two people are in the hospital following an Atlanta car accident Thursday involving a Coweta County Ambulance.
According to officials with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Department, 39 year-old Renae Sanders and her daughter were traveling in a minivan on Raymond Hill Road Saturday afternoon when she lost control of the vehicle on the rain-slicked road. Officials say the van struck an ambulance and flipped over several times before coming to rest in a ditch.
Sanders and her 14 year-old daughter in the minivan were critically injured in the accident. Sanders was transported to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment following the crash; the teenage passenger was taken o Children’s Health Care at Eagleston Hospital. Both mother and daughter are expected to recover.
The two EMS workers in the ambulance, Dannis Martin and Jeremy Fields, were not injured in the crash and were able to assist the woman and her daughter.
If you or someone you know has been injured in an Atlanta auto accident, please contact the Atlanta Car Accident Lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson by calling 760-631-1811.
Posted on July 23rd, 2010
A Georgia football player was arrested for a DUI after police pulled him over on East Campus Road.
The police officers stopped the UGA player when he did not change lanes when passing the cop who was stopping another vehicle. The driver originally told the officer that he did not drink any alcohol, but the police report stated the the car smelled of alcohol and the football player’s eyes were bloodshot and glassy.
As the field sobriety test was being done, a call came over the radio describing the football player’s vehicle and stating that it was involved in an accident earlier in the evening. A sophomore corner back was also in the car along with a sophomore wide receiver.
If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident with a drunk driver, contact the Atlanta drunk driving accident lawyers of Webb, Wade, Taylor & Thompson LLC by calling 760-631-1811.
Posted on July 20th, 2010
An elderly couple was found dead in their in-home elevator after being trapped in their for four days, police believe.
The couple was from Pennsylvania and had been married for 60 years, but they had vacationed in Georgia for a majority of their lives. At some point last week, the couple was traveling to the third floor of the home when the elevator malfunctioned and they had no means to call for help.
The mail carrier notified police when the newspaper began to pile up. Authorities broke into the home and found no one and then they spotted the elevator.
The couple was inside facing each other in the fetal position. Autopsies have shown that the couple died of heat exhaustion because the elevator probably reached 95 degrees.
Elevator accidents can happen unexpectedly and cause serious injury, our thoughts are with the friends and family of the victims in the accident.
