- Michael Myers | September 29, 2007 8:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsLess than a week after receiving his driver's license, a teen driver who remains unidentified will likely have charges of vehicular assault brought against him. The teen driver (with four other passengers, all teenagers) was reportedly speeding, driving about 70-mph in a 35-mph zone. The speeding driver failed to stop at a stop sign and swerved abruptly when he saw an oncoming car, sending his...
- Michael Myers | September 28, 2007 12:11 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsOn September 25th a Des Moines woman was killed in a motorcycle crash on Pacific Highway South and South 226th Street. The 49-year-old woman was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by a 50-year-old man. Both the woman and man were thrown at least 75 feet after their motorcycle collided with a car that was making a left hand turn in front of the motorcycle. The woman was killed and the man was...
- Michael Myers | September 28, 2007 8:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousA new plan was unveiled by city officials on Wednesday that would entail Seattle Fire Department paramedics riding motorcycles to navigate through Seattle traffic and reached injured persons in a more timely manner. Similar programs are used in other cities and have resulted in significantly reduced response time to accidents. "All you have to do is look at Fourth Avenue during rush hour, when...
- Michael Myers | September 27, 2007 4:11 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeA recently filed lawsuit in the Federal Court in Miami alleges that the medical staff aboard the Carnival Legend, a ship that is part of the Carnival Cruise Line, committed medical malpractice. On September 6, 2006 cruise passenger, Helen Kerr, 73, was reportedly misdiagnosed and mistreated while suffering from a fluid buildup in her lungs.According to the complaint, Ms. Kerr went to the...
- Michael Myers | September 23, 2007 9:11 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeWith our aging population more and more people are filling prescriptions. That's one of the reasons that incidents of pharmacy malpractice are on the rise. A recent decision in Florida, in a case involving pharmacy malpractice, is notable:It took just three hours of deliberation for a Florida jury to award $28.5 million to the family of a woman who suffered a suffered a massive cerebral...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 21, 2007 8:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsEight years after her husband was killed by drunk driver, Tracy Enoch-Jevne, widow Susan McGuire received a $1.8 million settlement from the city of Algona. The settlement stems from McGuire's claim that the woman who hit her husband on December 2, 1999 should have been in jail at the time of the accident. Enoch-Jevne already had four drunken-driving convictions on her record, accrued between...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 20, 2007 8:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe recent rash of bike-car collisions, including the recent death of a young Seattle bicyclist in a collision with a dump truck, has brought a renewed focus to bike safety. While it is easy to assign blame in these collisions, to a rider who didn't wear a helmet or a driver who didn't correctly yield, it is more productive to focus on changes that can be made to prevent future bike-car...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 19, 2007 8:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousOn Thursday, September 13, Cephalon Inc. announced that four deaths have been linked to the powerful cancer pain drug, Fentora, which they manufacture. Fentora was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last September for use by specific cancer patients. The Fentora fatalities allegedly all involved patients using the drug improperly. Two of the patients who died were reportedly using...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 18, 2007 8:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Washington Supreme Court recently ruled that the statue of limitations in a wrongful death case was not "tolled" (that is, continued to run) even though the person filing suit was a minor at the time of the incident and, thus, unable to file suit until he or she turned 18. Kaela Atchison, who was 15 years old at the time of her father's death, appealed a decision by the Clark County...
- Michael Myers | September 17, 2007 12:57 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsOn Friday evening two 13-year old girls were hit while riding bikes on Machias Cutoff in Lake Stevens. The girls were riding on the shoulder when a car suddenly veered onto the shoulder, collided with the two girls and then struck a power pole. The driver was reportedly distracted by the dog riding in the vehicle, which caused her to take her eyes off the road and drive onto the shoulder and...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 12, 2007 10:55 AM |
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MiscellaneousOn Monday night a powerboat collided with a sailboat, one boat 44 feet, the other 38, on Lake Washington near the 520 bridge. Four people, including the driver of one of the boats, were treated at a hospital for minor injuries.According to the Seattle Police Harbor Patrol the driver of the powerboat is to blame for the water collision as he had reportedly been drinking. The driver of the...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 11, 2007 8:23 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA six-vehicle accident occurred on September 6, 2007 on northbound Interstate 5 at Northeast 175th Street in Shoreline. According to the Washington State Patrol, the brakes on a pickup truck hauling a trailer failed, causing the pickup to slam into another vehicle, setting off a chain reaction. An elderly couple was in the pickup truck. As a result of the accident, one person suffered serious...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 10, 2007 7:15 PM |
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MiscellaneousLast Friday afternoon, September 7, two bicyclists were hit by a dump truck near the intersection of Eastlake Avenue and Fuhrman Avenue East in Seattle. 19-year-old Bryce Lewis died on the scene, crushed under the front wheels of the dump truck. The other bicyclist, a friend of Lewis', was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The biking collision occurred on a...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 10, 2007 12:03 PM |
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MiscellaneousOn Sunday a Seattle fishing vessel, The Papa George, sank 12 miles off the Washington coast. Two of the vessels' crew members, David Starbuck, 62, and Ethel Zelaya, 37, died when the vessel capsized. Traveling in the skiff, the surviving crew came ashore at Long Beach at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, bringing the bodies of the two victims along with them. None of the survivors required...
- Chelsea Gilbert | September 09, 2007 11:54 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA year ago the city of Seattle installed six cameras at four busy intersections. The cameras were part of a $460,000 pilot program and intended to decrease collisions, drivers running red lights and drivers failing to stop before turning right on red. Since the installation of the cameras last June, the city has made over $900,000 in revenue from the 14,000 citations ($101 each) that have been...
- Michael Myers | September 02, 2007 8:44 AM |
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MiscellaneousA recent Seattle Times article highlights an important issue in the construction trades--especially with so much building taking place in Seattle and around Puget Sound. The Times reported the following: A 73-year-old man was rushed to Bremerton's Harrison Medical Center with life-threatening injuries after he fell down a 30-foot shaft at a construction site this afternoon.Central Kitsap Fire...
- Michael Myers | September 01, 2007 8:40 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Everett Herald provided the following report regarding the injury auto accident: A Saturn coupe driven by a 33-year-old woman was headed east on the U.S. 2 trestle between Everett and Snohomish. The car exited the highway onto Bickford Avenue in Snohomish. It went off the road and hit a tree around 9:30 a.m., said Rebecca Hover, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.The...