I guess some folks are just born mean, grow meaner, and keep on being mean right through old age. A little over a year ago, an 80-year-old mean-to-the-bone guy from Fulton, William L. LeVea, got drunk, jumped in his car, found a reason to get enraged at another motorist, and…
I represent a guy who was badly injured in a Central New York car accident. After all discovery had been exchanged, and the parties had been deposed, I felt I had a pretty good shot at getting “summary judgment” for my client establishing that the other driver was 100% responsible…
The last three days have dumped 30 inches of snow on Syracuse. And lots of snow usually translates into lots of car accidents. This storm is no exception. The Syracuse Post Standard today reports that between midnight and 2 p.m. last night, 150 car were involved in crashes inside the…
The Syracuse Post Standard reports today that two Auburn (NY) girls, one 12, the other 13, were hit by car as they were crossing East Genesee Street in the marked crosswalk at the East Genesee/Howard Street intersection at about 7:25 a.m. The driver of the car said she did not…
It happened again. I think I have blogged at least 5 times within the last six months about this happening. It seems to be happening with greater and greater frequency. In fact, as a Central and Syracuse New York car accident lawyer, I am handling more and more of this…
Motorists, welcome to deer season in Upstate New York. Watch out! The white-tailed deer this year are more populous than in recent years. And they still haven’t learned how to look both ways before crossing the road! They are a moving target you want to miss. Hey, last time I…
A police officer who risks his life trying to catch the bad guy, and is injured while doing so, ranks high up there among this Syracuse New York injury lawyer’s pantheon of heroes. And that’s what happened yesterday in Syracuse. The Syracuse Post Standard reports that a Syracuse police officer,…
Holy Kamoli! Lots of car accidents reported in Sunday’s Geneva Finger Lakes Times. Here are three: A car blew past a stop sign in Hopewell causing a motorcycle to run into its side, ejecting the biker. In another Hopewell car accident, a woman pulled out from a stop sign without…
I came across an article in the Geneva Finger Lakes Times yesterday about a volunteer fireman responding to vehicle fire who was ticketed for “driving at an unreasonable speed” after failing to stop at a stop sign, going off the road, hitting a light pole and then a parked car…