Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Northern Virginia

The law is on the books in 48 states, but 71 percent of Americans are unaware of its existence. According to law enforcement officers, the need for motorists to be educated about the...

Jason Vasiento, a 29-year-old veterinarian technician from Herndon died of the personal injuries he received from his car hitting a semi-truck on the Dulles Toll Road on Saturday, March...

A firefighter from Henrico County died from the personal injuries he received on the morning of Sunday, March 30 after he was pinned between a vehicle and a tree at his home in New Kent...

Two men were recently listed in critical condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center from the personal injuries they received in an automobile accident on Va. 663. One was listed as...

Met with a nice couple within the last few days. They were very distressed. The wife had been in a car accident and was still under treatment. The distress was being caused by a major car insurance...

Virginia State police are investigating a crash that occurred this past weekend, involving a bus carrying children from McLean Bible Church, in McLean. According to published reports, at least 10...

A Virginia State Police Trooper had to be placed in intensive care for the severe personal injuries he received after he was hit by a man who had been driving under the influence of alcohol on Interstate 81. The accident took place shortly after 11 p.m on Saturday, February 2 in Smyth County.After he finished a routine traffic stop, Trooper K.S. Chapman was sitting stationary in his patrol...

Del. James Scott (D-Fairfax) believes that enough adults in Virginia are attempting to send text messages while driving, which could potentially result in personal injury, that he wants to ban the practice. He has filed in advance of the 2008 General Assembly session a bill that would prohibit operating a vehicle while sending text messages.Scott admitted that usually, it takes several years...

Now what do we do?Virginia DUI defense attorney Bob Battle has an excellent post today regarding the "unintended consequences of Virginia harsh "bad driver fees" put into law by our General Assembly earlier this year.Here was the good idea. Reduce taxes but quadruple fines (er... "fees) for bad drivers. Then suspend their licenses when they can't pay. As Bob Battle points out, someone has...

According to a Washington Post article, Lincoln Nguyen, 71, of Alexandria, Virginia was struck and killed by a car. Witnesses said that Nguyen had a green light but was not able to get across the entire intersection in time. Police are looking for a gold SUV or minivan with tinted windows and front-end damage. The information number for the Fairfax County Police is: 866-411-8477. The accident...

I always wondered how a car could get hit by a train. I mean, trains are big, noisy things.Here is a very disturbing video of a mom who's 2 children died when she tried to beat a train in an intersection and managed to get hit by two trains.Two trains hit mom in minivan video.This is very tragic.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle...

to deny claims..This story is almost unbelievable yet Progressive Insurance Company has ADMITTED to these actions. It seems that the insurance company actually hired private detectives to JOIN A CHURCH in order to discredit a couple suing the insurer.Progressive Corp Chief Executive Glenn Renwick has apologized for the use of private detectives."What the investigators and Progressive people did...

The Virginia State police are now reporting that Elaine Minnette "Nettie" Thackston, 20, of Fairfax, Va. had been drinking when the car she was driving pulled in front of a tractor trailer on graduation night, killing all four women in the car.Other alcohol and marijuana were also found in the car. While the alcohol limit did not meet Virginia's definition of "drunk driving" it did exceed...

This case shows why you should be checking your own car insurance policy right now. This local accident victim suffered what a jury determined to be $400,000 of injuries. The driver who hit him only had $50,000 of insurance (and, in Virginia, its perfectly legal to drive without car insurance.) Fortunately he had been smart enough (or just plain lucky) to have purchased a USAA policy with...

A Virginia Beach mother of two who was broadsided by a car traveling at 40 MPH and suffered wrist, neck, and back pain, was awarded $194K in a recent trial in the Norfolk, Virigina area.. After the crash, the plaintiff consulted with a chiropractor, neurosurgeon, and physiatrist who determined that she was a member the very small minority of people who are unable to fully recover from...