Yesterday I blogged about New York personal injury liability for a Park owner’s failure to properly maintain trails and hiking areas, and for failing to place appropriate warnings signs. What sparked off that blog entry was a tragic hiker accident in Letchworth State Park in which a 19-year old hiker…
Letchworth is one of several upstate New York State parks. It is the deepest gorge anywhere east of the Rockies and is sometimes called “the Grand Canyon of the East”. I personally have spent many splendid, sun-drenched days hiking its trails, and driving or bicycling around its “rim” to take…
Fourth of July, Independence Day, or whatever you want to call it. It’s here! And in New York, where private fireworks are illegal, many citizens are pitted against the law. I personally spend the evening of the Third on Otisco Lake, which is illuminated like a roman candle by private…
I am a regular reader, and admirer, of Elmira bicycle accident attorney Jim Reed’s New York Bicycle Accident Lawyer Blog. Jim is always one of the first to post updates on bike equipment recalls and changes in New York laws that affect cyclists. So I was not surprised to read…
The Syracuse Post Standard reported today that an Auburn, New York police officer suffered muscle wounds and injuries requiring stitches after a pit bull attacked him Sunday night. The officer had walked up a driveway on East Genesee Street to investigate some smoke coming from the back (it turned out…
Laws should be fair and just, but are sometimes unfair and harsh. Think of the laws that allowed slavery, and later the Jim Crow laws. Think of the Nazi laws that allowed Jews to be arrested and deported or worse just for being Jews. Or think of the Roman laws…
The Syracuse Post Standard reports that a Baldwinsville man got a one-to-three year jail sentence for seriously injuring two motorcyclists last fall in a Syracuse, New York car-on-motorcycle collision. He was driving through the intersection of Hiawatha Boulevard and State Fair Boulevard in Syracuse with a .08 blood-alcohol count when…
True heroism is rare. Strictly speaking, sports figures are not “heroes”. In order to be a true “heroe”, you must risk your own life to save someone else’s. This past June 10th, two true local heroes saved a life, all while risking their own. Joseph and Anna Buttaccio of Newark…
This photograph was taken at the Geneva, New York YMCA swimming pool last Friday, June 18. That big kid in the middle who looks a lot older than the others is me. The occasion was the last Friday evening swim outing of the school year for the Boys & Girls…
Handling Central New York bicycle accident cases has its draw backs when you are also a bicyclist. It ruins your fun. You can’t ride without thinking about the guy you are representing who may never walk again because a car at an intersection “didn’t see him” and did him in.…