This Central New York car accident attorney must once again report a tragic car crash in the area. As usual, I will report the facts, and then discuss the legal ramifications. Here’s what happened: According to the Geneva Finger Lakes Times, a three-vehicle crash ocurred across from Seneca Lake State…
Upstate New York is blanketed in snow this Christmas season. So beautiful — and so dangerous for motorists. Snow is especially plentiful in the Oswego, Syracuse and Buffalo areas (the “snow belt”). Buffalo, Oswego and Syracuse motor vehicle accident lawyers have already begun fielding telephone calls from distraught family members…
This past fall this central New York accident lawyer toured upstate New York State, stopping in Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, to lecture other personal injury lawyers about Municipal Law Liability developments (see my prior blog about it) in New York State. One thing I told other personal injury lawyers…
The Syracuse Post Standard reports that a Syracuse man, Harold Field, died Friday from auto accident injuries suffered in a three-car collision at the intersection of Stump Road and State Street Road in Skaneateles. The newspaper reports Field had injured his head, pelvis and leg in the accident. Field was…
Like most people, I have been invited to several holiday-season parties this year. And like most people, I like to drink socially. But unlike most people, I am keenly aware of the destruction that drinking and driving can cause. Why? Because this Syracuse, Auburn and Geneva area motor-vehicle-accident lawyer represents…
Sadly, seriously injured victims of motor vehicle crashes in upstate New York are often surprised to learn that neither the negligent driver nor the owner of the at-fault car had purchased sufficient “liability” insurance to fully compensate them for their pain and suffering and other losses. Why? In the Syracuse…
In my last blog, I wrote about a real car-on-pedestrian accident in Cicero, New York. That got me thinking about pedestrian safety. Car accident lawyers in New York, and everywhere, see a lot of cases involving cars striking pedestrians. It’s too common. And it’s not a fair match; the car…
Today I read news reports that, on Friday evening, December 5, a woman drove her car into a pedestrian in Cicero, Onondaga County, New York. Twenty-nine-year-old Leann Doyle of Canastota struck 51-year-old Joanne Schoenfelder of Bridgeport while she was standing in front of a residential mailbox on Route 298. The…
A New York Times article today, entitled “Pregnant Women are Particularly Vulnerable during Car Accidents,” provides food for thought. The article says that 300 to 1,000 unborn children die in car accidents in the U.S. each year. An unborn child has a four times greater chance of dying in a…
Stop signs only work, obviously, if people see them and obey them. This fact is demonstrated by a recent car accident near Geneva, Ontario County, New York. The Finger Lakes Times newspaper reports that two motorists were treated at Geneva General Hospital following a car collision in the town of…