While the following accident is lacking in details, it still happened here in New Mexico. And readers can still glean important information from the story despite the lack of complete information. The crash happened in Clovis, New Mexico, where a semi-truck and a van collided as the van tried to turn out of a gas station. The semi-truck crashed into the passenger side of the van, and it sent the vehicle and the trailer it was towing into a ditch.…
The following slip and fall case didn’t happen in Albuquerque or even New Mexico, but the circumstances could happen to anyone across the country. In this particular case, a woman and her child were in a McDonald’s when the child slipped on some water on the ground of the fast food restaurant. The woman filed a lawsuit on behalf of her child, seeking up to $1 million in damages for the slip and fall. In the lawsuit, the woman claimed…
We’d all like to think that when we get into a car accident, the result of the crash will leave us unharmed and our car only slightly damaged. These fender benders are obviously far better than a serious motor vehicle accident, but they are often not what happens when someone gets into an accident. The crash leaves the person feeling woozy, or they may suffer from whiplash or a traumatic brain injury, or they may break bones or suffer terrible…
Let’s say that as you are walking across or through someone else’s premises, you slip and fall on the ground. As a result, you suffer injuries that greatly impact your life. You also have questions about liability in this situation, because you think that the property manager or building owner was negligent in this case. So how do you prove that? There are numerous factors to consider. The first two relate to the property manager or owner: could they have prevented…
A recent crash between a senior citizen bicycling group and an angry motorist caused some of the group to fall off their bikes. The incident occurred on N.M. 41 when the driver of the vehicle, who had just passed the group while honking his horn, stopped on the road, then punched his car into reverse. He allegedly hit one of the cyclists with his vehicle. The bicyclist was thrown off the bike and sent to the hospital with severe injuries.…
While the following truck accident story is being used more as a joke than it is a news story, it still represents an important opportunity for us to talk about truck accidents and the many different risks that they pose to drivers out on the road — and the various ways that they can be caused by the truck driver or the vehicle itself. A truck overturned in London recently, spilling it’s cargo — a vast quantity of milk cartons…
About a month and a half ago, we wrote a post about dog bites and the fatalities related to them in the year 2016 in the United States. In the time since then, new information has come to light about the year 2017 — and the numbers do not depict an improvement in the overall safety surrounding dogs and the harm they inflict on innocent people. According to DogBites.org, there were 39 fatalities related to dog bites in the United States…
It is a chaotic and stressful time, but after a car accident you need to do everything in your power to be calm and prepare yourself for what comes next. There are some simple steps that you can take that will greatly improve your standing after a car accident, and many people fail to do this. It will be difficult to relax and prepare yourself for the aftermath of an accident simply because the shock of a car accident —…
Truck accidents are so scary for a lot of reasons. Any auto accident is scary, of course. But with smaller vehicles, there is less power and force that goes into the crash itself when compared to an accident that involves a multi-ton, 18-wheel behemoth of a vehicle. Trucks are just far more dangerous when they are involved in a crash than practically any other vehicle. When a truck crash does happen, the victims often suffer debilitating, catastrophic or fatal injuries.…
About a month ago, we wrote a post about dog bites in 2016 and how that data shows that pit bulls are a massive safety problem. They are disproportionately involved in fatal dog bites, and their powerful jaws can lead to devastating injuries — even if they don’t turn out to be fatal. Today, we have a dog bite story that turns the conventional plot line on its head. A 6-year-old girl that was aboard a plane was bitten by…
