Automobile Accidents

• Child In Critical Condition Following Crash

  Chrissie Cole | March 27, 2010 1:27 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  A car accident yesterday in Madison has left a 5-year-old girl in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital. The child was a back seat, restrained passenger in a vehicle that collided with...

• Don’t Give Your Car Keys to a Drunk or Careless Driver

  Tara Helms | July 09, 2009 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  If you do, you could be subject to liability for compensatory and punitive damages if that driver causes a wreck which results in personal injuries. All of us have a legal duty to the public, not to...

• Texting While Driving - Is a Federal Ban Necessary?

  Margaret Embry | June 18, 2009 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  According to the Montgomery County News, a one car accident occured near Splendora, TX on June 7, leaving the driver critically injured and the passenger dead. The accident has been attributed to...

• Dangerously Distracted iPod Drivers

  Frank Ward | October 07, 2008 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  For years now people have been discussing the dangers of drivers talking on cell phones. Some state and local governments now require drivers to use hand-free headsets. More recently the perils of...

• Wrecks Caused by Drivers Without Insurance

  Tara Helms | June 08, 2008 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  What would happen if you or your family were seriously injured in a car accident by a driver with no insurance? You might be surprised to learn that your own insurance policy could be used to...

• Police Investigating Car Accident that Killed 3 Alabama Cheerleaders

  Jenny Albano | December 02, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  Police are investigating the cause of a car accident that killed three Alabama high school cheerleaders and injured four in Friday night, November 30.Sarah Casey, 16, Courtney Niceley, 17, and Whitney Bradford, 16, of Warrior, Ala., all died when the car they were in hit a tree and went over an embankment. The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Agee, 17, Brittany Lovejoy, 17, Ariel Nibblet, 17, and...

• Federal Jury gives $3.1 Million in Ambulance Suit

  Tedford Taylor | May 01, 2007 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  A Madison County federal jury awarded $3.1 million to the family of a woman who was killed in a collision with a speeding ambulance on October 13, 2005. The ambulance was transporting a patient from Fayetteville to Huntsville on a non-emergency basis. The family alleged in their lawsuit that the wrongful death was caused by the carelessness and negligence of the ambulance driver. Judge...

• Fatal Car-Truck Accident Shuts Down I-65

  Tedford Taylor | April 12, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  As of 7:45 this morning, traffic was stopped on southbound I-65 in Cullman as a result of an early morning car accident that claimed the life of at least one person.State troopers said the 2 a.m. accident involved a tractor trailer and a car between mile markers 304 and 308, which are the two exits into Cullman. Southbound traffic is being diverted onto U.S. Troopers expect the southbound lanes...

• Car Crash with a Tractor-Trailer Kills Three Men

  Christina Cole | March 15, 2007 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  Three men were killed in a tragic car accident today when their car crossed a median and struck a tractor-trailer head-on in a collision on Alabama 20, in Limestone County, police said.The car accident occurred on Wednesday around 5pm between the Mooresville and Greenbrier exits in Limestone County, Huntsville Police spokesperson said.The driver of the car died on impact and two of the car...