A judge ruled Tuesday that the widow of New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle, who was killed when a small plane he was in crashed into a Manhattan building, can proceed with a lawsuit stemming from his death, according to the New…
Three Killed, Including Doctor-Pilot, In New Jersey Plane Crash
Bad luck seems to plague the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, N.J., a facility in the New York metro area. This is the airport that John F. Kennedy Jr. took off from on July16, 1999, flying his wife and sister-in-law to Martha’s…
Two Pilots Die In Separate Plane Crashes In Southern California
Two pilots were killed Thursday in separate plane crashes in Southern California, according to The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0702-plane-crashes-20100702,0,1696979.story In one of the accidents, a single-engine Cesna 152 plane crashed onto the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, Calif. The pilot was pronounced…
Six More States Ban Texting While Driving Effective July 1
Today, July 1, bans on texting-while-driving went into effect in six states, adding to the 18 others that already prohibit motorists from using their cellphones to send messages. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/June10/062810/063010-03.htm Michigan, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming will start enforcing their new laws…
New Jersey Couple, Who Lost Legs In Accident, Sue Driver That Hit Them While On His Cellphone
Here’s what I’m sure will be just the beginning of a rash of lawsuits filed in cases where a driver using a cellphone or texting had an accident. Here is such a suit filed just last week: A New Jersey man and…
Proposed New York Car Insurance Law Is About Accident Victims, Not Money-Hungry Trial Lawyers
Leave it to members of the press, themselves generally disdained by the public, to paint lawyers as money-grubbing shylocks as often as they can. So it is in the New York Post’s coverage Tuesday of legislation that would make it easier for…
India Looks To Tighten Up Lax Training For Pilots After Fatal May Crash
There be some good that comes out of the tragic plane crash last month in India that killed more than 150 people: India may finally set stricter rules for the training of its pilots. That’s because pilot error, and the…
New Haven Is Connecticut’s Truck Accident Capital
Connecticut’s New Haven is a high-danger zone for trucks, according to an editorial Wednesday in The New Haven Register. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/06/16/opinion/doc4c1844d4efcc9348188618.txt Citing recent data from the state Department of Motor Vehicles, the newspaper said that “drivers of commercial vehicles on highways in New Haven ended…
Eight Killed In Plane Crashes In Arizona, Arkansas
Eight people were killed, four each in two separate plane crashes, this weekend in Arizona and Arkansas. In the first fatal accident, a small plane hit an empty high school building in Eagar, Ariz., last Friday. The single engine Piper was going to the…
Plane Hits Building Near Toronto, Killing Pilot And Passenger
A plane slammed into a toy warehouse not far from Toronto Tuesday, killing its pilot and a passenger. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/markham-plane-crash-victim-identified/article1581867/ The pilot of the Cirrhus SR-20, pet hotel owner Paul Jess, encountered problems when he took off, with witnesses seeing smoke coming out of…