Last month US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a new national strategy for ending “distracted driving”. LaHood has not yet called to ban all mobile device use in automobiles like the National Transportation Safety Board but his strategy does encourage the 11 states that do not have distracted driving laws to do so. Missouri is […]
Jeffrey Allen, a central Illinois man, has been convicted and sentenced for his sixth DUI. He could spend up to 14 years in jail as a result of this latest conviction. His blood alcohol limit was over .19 – more than twice the legal limit in Illinois. Allen was involved in an accident in May […]
The St. Louis Today reports that on Sunday July 1, 2012 the driver of a van that failed to yield when entering Route 60 near Cabool was killed when her van was struck by a pick up truck. A passenger in the van was also killed in the accident. All five passengers in the pickup […]
A construction worker was struck by a dump truck backing up to deliver its load along Interstate 55 outside of Bloomsdale Missouri July 2, 2012. The news report on the St. Louis Today website states that the man was crossing the lanes at the construction site and looked one way but not the other. There […]
On June 29, 2012 St. Louis Today reported on an accident in Festus Missouri that took the life of a husband and wife. A teenaged driver was in a pickup that was going northbound on Highway 61 and investigators say he ran a red light and collided with a Lexus. Both the passengers in the […]
A Massachusetts teenager has been convicted of vehicular homicide in a case that has put texting while driving on the front page. In February of 2011 he was driving and hit a truck head on killing the driver of that vehicle. The teenager had denied texting at the time he was driving but the police […]
A car hit a truck on a road construction site in Fairview Illinois on May 22. One worker was killed as a result of the accident and two others were injured. The injured workers and the driver of the vehicle were airlifted to St. Louis University Hospital. The workers were standing near a truck that […]
The CDC website has an application that an injured person can access to estimate what their injury will cost them. They have updated work loss estimates and have corrected unit medical cost estimates for injuries treated at emergency rooms for patients released after treatment. Average costs for fatal injuries listed by body part involved are […]
A jury has awarded $11.4 million to Raymond Mariolle, a truck driver who injured his back when the wheel of his truck collapsed. Mr. Mariolle, a driver for Waste Management Co. required several surgeries after sustaining compression injuries to his spine. Suit was brought against the manufacturer of the hub that broke, Volvo Truck, the company […]
On Wednesday May 2, 2012 a police car that was responding to call was part of an accident involving a school bus. Luckily there were no students aboard the school bus at the time but one of the officers in the cruiser had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. The driver of the […]
