You can’t be a New York personal Injury lawyer for very long without learning to hate insurance companies. I think it took me all of 6 months when I started out years ago to realize how brutal they were. You see, insurance companies “screw” good people all the time. Here’s…
The Syracuse New York bus accident lawyer busy and thinking. I have handled complex personal injury cases before, but this one has lots of interesting twists, as can be seen by reading my prior blogs about it, entitled: “Syracuse Megabus Overpass Collision — Was It the County’s Fault?” “Syracuse Auto…
In an article entitled “NY DOT chief nixes big fixes for Onondaga Lake Parkway railroad bridge”, the Syracuse Post Standard quotes a top New York Department of Transportation official as saying that structural design changes to keep trucks, buses and other tall vehicles from crashing against the railroad bridge above…
Here we go again — another fatal Central New York motor vehcile accident caused by distracted driving. Cell phones, smart phones, texting devices, gps navigators — what will they think of next to tempt drivers into distraction? The latest victims of distracted driving? News sources report that the bus driver…
The Syracuse Post Standard just published another online article about the recent fatal Megabus accident near Syracuse, in Salina, New York. The top of the double-decker bus collided with a CSX railroad bridge over Onondaga Lake Parkway. The Post Standard pointed out that this 10-foot-9-inch clearance “is notorious for getting…
Earlier today I posted a lengthy blog about the tragic Syracuse Megabus crash. To summarize, four people were killed today, and several others seriously injured, when a double-decker “Megabus” slammed into a railroad overpass in Salina, which is just outside of Syracuse, New York. Update: I just read on a…
At about 2:30 a.m. this morning, the top of a double-decker bus smashed into an overpass railroad bridge spanning the Onondaga Lake Parkway. The impact threw the entire bus on its side. The bus had left from Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was making its way to Toronto with scheduled stops in…
I hate reeling off statistics to make a point, but I couldn’t resist these: Children 15 and younger account for 22% of all pedestrians injured in traffic crashes. And 38% of child pedestrian fatalities occur in crashes between 3 and 7 p.m (after school gets out). So what’s my point?…
Wednesday, on Route 5 in Elbridge, a tractor trailer rear-ended a stopped car so hard that the car, a Kia, burst into flames, killing its driver and passenger. The Onondaga County deputy sheriff’s office says the tractor trailer left no skid marks at all, which means its driver did not…
I have blogged about New York texting while driving car crash cases more than once. You can read my prior posts here and here. But this video — oh my god — if you can watch it more than once, you did better than I did. As painful as it…