Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Rear-End Collision - Who is at Fault?

  Staff Writer | February 01, 2006 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you rear-end another vehicle can you maintain a viable claim against that driver? Recently, a prospective client contacted me with this question. In that case, driver 1's car stopped running and was stationary in the right hand lane of traffic on a bridge. Driver 2, was an SUV that failed to stop in time and struck Driver 1. Driver 3 (prospective client) was in a small car behind the SUV...

• Police Car Accident Lawsuit Settled For $3M

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2006 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The city of Grandview has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to the family of an Overland Park teen who was injured when broadsided by a city police car that went through a red light while chasing a stolen car in Leawood, Kansas.Emma Rothbrust was a passenger in the car broadsided by officer Brian Blessing in November 2004. She was unable to walk until spring 2005, and according to her father:the...

• Kansas City Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | June 21, 2007 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 23-year-old man driving a motorcycle on Interstate 635 caused a car accident after he was driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed. He hit a Chevy Cavalier with four people inside. The accident happened in Wyandotte County in Kansas. No one in the Cavalier was injured. All were wearing their seat belts. The accident occurred about 10:30 p.m.The police are investigating the...

• Man Injured in Car Accident Taken to Hospital by Helicopter

  Shannon Weidemann | March 10, 2007 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A traffic accident in Leavenworth resulted in an 18-year-old man being airlifted to a hospital in Kansas City. He was ejected from the car he was a passenger in. The accident was reported shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday at 18th Street and U.S. 73. The accident occurred when a northbound Saturn sedan crossed in front of a westbound pickup truck, according to Maj. Pat Kitchens, deputy chief of...

• Sorority House Hit by Truck in Lawrence

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Kansas University Sorority House was hit by a pickup truck on Sunday morning. The driver of the pickup was being pursued by police after he was seen breaking car windows in a parking lot and threatening people with a knife. While traveling west on Jayhawk Boulevard, the truck ran into and over the cement barriers that protect a traffic control booth before being launched over the Chi Omega...

• Car Accident Injures Topeka Doctor

  Shannon Weidemann | September 21, 2007 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An endocrinologist from Topeka was injured in a car accident on the Kansas Turnpike near Lawrence on Tuesday. The doctor was driving his car on Interstate 70 when he was hit by another vehicle trying to pass on the right shoulder. It happened just before 11 am Tuesday. The Kansas Turnpike Authority says Wynne was stopped on the right shoulder at mile post 200 near Lawrence when another vehicle...

• Sledding Teen Hit by Car and Breaks Leg

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2007 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A teenager that went out sledding after school on a local sledding hill hit a bump that sent him onto the road and into the path of an oncoming car. His leg was broken in the accident. The teen was using a blue saucer sled when he went onto Merriam Lane. The sledding hill is located on private property and the teen did not have permission to be there. The property owner plans on putting up...

• Defective Product Suits Cost Ford Millions

  Staff Writer | February 16, 2006 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ford's litigation policy of refusing to settle defective product claims reportedly cost the automaker over $255 Million. Hopefully these large jury verdicts will send a message that the public is not going to tolerate corporate irresponsibility any longer. You can read more about this story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.I believe that large corporations adopt this type of strategy hoping that...

• Kansas City Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | January 14, 2006 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The city of Kansas City has agreed to a settlement of $300,000 with the family of a college student killed when the car he was riding in skidded on a patch of ice caused by a water main break. The student was home for Christmas Break from UM-Columbia in December 2004.The plaintiffs' attorney said neighbors had reported the water main break earlier in the day and warned that the water flowing...