In a head-on crash caused by a Defendant leaving the northbound lanes of I-81, the driver was killed on impact. The driver was a school teacher who was traveling for her work. The Plaintiff, who was driving southbound on Interstate 81, was airlifted to Bristol Regional Medical Center where she remained for six days. Plaintiff’s…
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Having traveled up and down Interstate 81 to get to Roanoke, Blacksburg and Smith Mountain Lake, highway accident lawyer Doug Landau has seen trucks barreling unsafely down the road at all hours. This main traveling artery is a major truck route through the North-South corridor. It avoids the traffic snarls of I-95 along the east…
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Workers on Virginia’s interstates – I-95, I-66, I-495, I-64, and I-81 – are at great risk for injury from inattentive motorists who may be texting or otherwise distracted while driving through a work zone. When a construction worker on a Virginia highway is struck by a negligent motorist, she not only may have a workers’…
Continue readingOne recent weekend in September, Virginia State Police issued more than 1,000 (one thousand) tickets to drivers along 870 miles of Interstates 81, 95, 85 and 64. Drivers were cited for such charges as speeding, reckless driving, drunken driving, and drug and other felony charges. What happens if one of these drivers had been involved…
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