Charlotte Motor Vehicle Accident Law Blog

When people hear the words "school bus accident," they often shutter at the thought of innocent children getting hurt. While transporting kids to school in the massive vehicles is generally very safe, accidents do happen. Sometimes crashes occur when other drivers disobey ordinary traffic rules.

One such accident occurred late last week in Monroe. At the time of the crash, a dozen students who attend the Central Academy of Technology and Arts High School in Union County were riding the school bus.

The story of a widow who lost the love of her life to a careless driver was published on Valentine's Day, appropriately enough.

She stopped at a roadside marker, far from Charlotte, with fresh flowers that day, pausing to talk about the $7 million jury award in her wrongful death lawsuit, and more important, the loss that still looms over her life.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg ambulance drivers and police officers know their way well around the city. They probably know their way to the intersection of Johnston Road and Providence Road West a little bit better than most spots around town.

The south Charlotte intersection has been the scene of a number of car accidents over recent years, including a fatal collision there this past Friday morning, WCNC reports.

We've written in this space before about the causes of traumatic brain injuries. These head injuries are caused most often by falls (35 percent), says the Centers for Disease Control, followed by car accidents (17 percent), struck-by events (16 percent) and assaults (10 percent).

New research shows that a whopping 60 percent of incarcerated adults have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) at some point in their lives. Compare that with the rest of the population, of which just 8.5 percent has gone through TBI. About two percent of the U.S. population has a form of disability due to a TBI.

The judge in a wrongful death lawsuit says a millionaire's latest legal maneuver borders "on the surreal." Observers wonder if the man is trying to protect himself and some substantial assets from justice.

What's his legal ploy? The 48-year-old recently adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend. The millionaire is being sued by parents of a 23-year-old man killed in a car wreck far south of Charlotte.

As we've noted before in this space, tractor-trailers are large vehicles that pose a serious danger to other motorists. But 18-wheelers can also pose dangers to the truckers who drive them, as a case far from Charlotte, North Carolina, demonstrates.

The case in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, involves a wrongful death lawsuit filed after a trucker was crushed by the cargo he was hauling.

More than a dozen North Carolina students were taken to a hospital after a motor vehicle accident involving a school bus last Friday afternoon.

A pick-up truck slammed into the back of the bus about 150 miles east of Charlotte, in Cumberland County.

Automobile accidents are sudden and life-changing events. Even a minor fender-bender can shake up a driver and his or her passengers. A real tragedy occurs when a child dies in a car crash.

A 17-year-old boy in North Carolina was riding in a car with three teenage friends when the driver, a high school classmate, rounded a curve too quickly, crossing over the centerline. In the opposite lane, their car collided with two more vehicles and went off the road, crashing into a closed gas station. The young man died at the scene and all but one of the survivors ended up in the hospital.

As the community grieves the loss of the well-liked boy, his family starts the process of learning to live without him and the promise his bright future held. No amount of compensation can make up for the loss of a loved one but, sometimes, a wrongful death action may help a family move through the grieving process.