Tyler Personal Injury Lawyer - Automobile Accidents

Three Injured In Three-Vehicle Accident

Chrissie Cole — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:36:00 GMT

Three people were sent to the hospital on Wednesday following a three-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 79.

The accident happened just after 4 p.m. about a mile west of State Highway 110, according to Lt. Mike Terry with the Jacksonville Fire Department.

While the cause of the accident is unknown, Lt. Terry said the crash involved a Ford Bronco, small pickup truck and a four-door car.

When officials arrived to the accident scene, one vehicle was in a ditch and the other two were in the middle of the highway.

Three of the four people involved in the crash were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries is not known. However, two of them had to be extricated using the Jaws of Life.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Chrissie Cole

Woodville Woman Killed In Rollover Accident

Chrissie Cole — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:07:00 GMT

A Woodville woman was killed Saturday night in a single-car accident when she was ejected from the vehicle, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The woman, 59, was heading south on FM 92 just after 10:00 p.m. when she lost control of her vehicle and ran off the roadway on a curve to the left. The vehicle rolled over several times and she was ejected.

She was declared dead at the scene.

Car Accident Statistics

Every 12 minutes a person dies because of a car accident and every 14 seconds, a car accident results in an injured victim.

The majority of car accident victims are the drivers, followed by the passengers, pedestrians and lastly cyclists.

It is estimated that there are more than 6 million car accidents annually in the U.S.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Chrissie Cole

United States Supreme Court Orders Lower Court to Review Punitive Damage Award

Bruce Roberts — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:24:41 GMT

The United States Supreme Court has ordered a California appeals court to review its decision upholding an 82.6 million dollar Award to a woman who was paralyzed after her Ford Explorer rolled over. The Justices on the Supreme Court want the California court to review its decision to make sure it follows the a recent United States Supreme Court decision overturning a 79.5 million dollar Award of punitive damages on a tobacco case.

In that particular case the United States Supreme Court held that, a jury may punish a defendant only for the harm it caused in that particular case, not for the general harm the defendant had done in other cases. In the Ford Explorer case, the consumer, Denetta Duell-Wilson, age 51, was driving on an interstate in San Diego, California when she swerved to miss a metal object in the road. When she swerved, she lost control of the Ford Explorer and it rolled over approximately four times. Denetta Duell was paralyzed from rollover. She then filed her personal injury lawsuit against Ford seeking actual and punitive damages.

In June 2004 a San Diego jury found that her Explorer was defective because of instability and a weak roof.
A jury initially awarded $369 million, including $246 million in punitive damages. It was the first damage award against the Ford Motor Company involving a rollover of an Explorer and one of the biggest personal-injury awards ever against an automaker.
Courts twice cut the size of the award. The $82.6 million approved by a California state appeals court now includes punitive damages of $55 million.
Ford's legal team, led by former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, asked the court to take the case because it said Ford was being punished even though the design of the vehicle met federal safety standards.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Bruce Roberts

Man Killed when His Car Crashes into Tree

Christina Cole — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:31:13 GMT

A 74-year-old Tyler man is dead after his car crashed into a tree on Thursday, February 1st. Investigators say the man was in the 500 Bock of North Border when his vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a tree.

Emergency crews transported the driver to Texas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The car accident is still under investigation at this time.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Christina Cole