Automobile Accidents

• Older and Younger Drivers Die of Different Causes

  Michael Myers | August 13, 2006 7:57 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Researchers have found the following:Drivers 65 and over killed in car accidents were significantly more likely to die of a chest injury (47.3 percent vs. 24.0 percent in the youngest group)Younger drivers were more likely to die of a head injury (22.0 percent vs. 47.1 percent in the oldest group)Older drivers were more likely to die at a date after the crash date ("delayed death")Frailty or...

• PIP Reimbursement and How to Reduce the Insurance Company's Share

  Michael Myers | August 11, 2006 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Person's injured in automobile collisions will often receive benefits under the personal injury protection (PIP) portions of their insurance policies. Despite the fact that they have been paid premiums, the insurance companies will oftentimes seek to recoup these payments when the injured person's personal injury claim settles against the at fault party. This comes as an unwelcome surprise to...

• Yakima Man Dies in West Valley--Passenger Injured

  Michael Myers | August 10, 2006 8:53 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Passengers face what seems like a difficult choice: go without compensation or make a claim when they are injured in an accident caused by a friend for family member. Ryan P. Leitch was involved in a roll-over accident. He died at the scene.His passenger, James P. Kendrick of Naches, suffered neck injuries. The injuries were significant and he was transfered to Harborview Medical Center.But...

• Aberdeen Woman Killed in Crash on I-5

  Michael Myers | August 08, 2006 10:27 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  An Aberdeen woman (Deborah Vaughn-Alejandro) died on July 30, 2006. She was a passenger in one of four vehicles that were involved in the wreck. The State Patrol reports that the accident that killed Deborah Vaughn-Alejandro was one of five accidents that took on a portion of I-5 where state Department of Transportation had lanes closed for construction. In addition to claims agains the...

• Update on SUV Rollover

  Michael Myers | August 08, 2006 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  As reported earlier, a Renton man was burned over most of his body and his passenger ejected when their sport utility vehicle crashed. There are allegations it was involved in a hit-and-run accident.The accident happened just before 3 a.m. Monday on the offramp from northbound Interstate 5 to South 200th Street in SeaTac.It began with a minor hit-and-run accident on I-5 in Federal Way. The...

• Update on Mill Creek/Highway 527 Accident

  Michael Myers | August 08, 2006 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  As reported earlier, Washington State Patrol investigators are trying to figure out what caused a car to plow into an oncoming car Friday, killing a Woodinville man.A trooper interviewed the driver of the car at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she was being treated for several broken bones, trooper Keith Leary said.The accident closed down the highway for about two hours.The woman's...

• Former Senator John Glenn and Wife Released From Hospital After Auto Accident

  Michael Myers | August 06, 2006 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Sources in Ohio reported former senator and astronaut John Glenn and his wife, Annie, were discharged Sunday from a hospital where they had been recovering from what he called a "very serious" car accident."I do not recommend you go test your air bags the way we did the other night," Glenn said.Neither Glenn nor his wife was seriously injured, said Dr. Paul Beery. Beery said the former senator...

• Diminished Value of Repaired Cars

  Michael Myers | August 06, 2006 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  You are involved in an accident. Not only did you suffer injuries, your car is also damaged. The insurance carrier for the at-fault driver has an obligation to promptly adjust and settle the property damage claim before the bodily injury component is resolved.Unfortunately, many insurers do not abide by this law. And even if they do, they frequently omit certain key forms of compensation you...

• Injury and Death Near Mill Creek Washington

  Michael Myers | August 06, 2006 7:04 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  KOMO News reports that one person is dead and another suffered serious injuries in a head-on crash near Mill Creek Friday morning. The initial investigation showed a 32-year-old woman was driving southbound on SR-527 when she crossed the centerline in the 18300 block and collided head on with another car.The driver of the other car, a 57-year-old Woodinville man, died on the way to the...

• Two injured in crash at I-90 work site

  Michael Myers | August 04, 2006 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A 39-year-old Bellevue man and a 24-year-old woman from Gold Bar were injured when the sport-utility-vehicle they were riding in collided Thursday with a state Department of Transportation (DOT) truck on Interstate 90 near Issaquah.The collision took place about 12:20 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-90 near West Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast, the State Patrol reported.A DOT crew was doing...