In a case presided over by my friend Circuit Court Judge William Ledbetter, the Hanover County bench trial resulted in a verdict of $6,350,000 to the family of a flat bed truck driver who was struck head-on by a drunk motorist. The decedent’s truck burst into flames, however he was able to extricate himself. The…
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Last summer, four teenage boys and one teenage girl were returning home from a party in Glastonbury, Connecticut. The girl was not driving — at least not at first. After making two stops, at each of which two boys were dropped off, the girl was the lone person left to drive herself home. Unfortunately she…
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently recommended that states lower the blood-alcohol content (BAC) that constitutes drunk driving from .08 to .05. The BAC measures the percentage of alcohol, by volume, in the blood. Currently, all 50 states use .08 as the legal limit, above which a driver is subject to arrest and prosecution.…
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The Herndon Patch reports that the Town of Herndon Police Department will be conducting drivers’ checkpoints on weekends during this busy holiday season. What are they looking for? Drunk Drivers. The Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU has tried cases against impaired drivers. Injury lawyer Doug Landau prosecuted drunk and stoned drivers as part of his…
Continue readingPeople ask car crash lawyer Doug Landau of the ABRAMS LANDAU law firm in Herndon, Virginia, if you can still sue a drunk or reckless driver if they have been sent to jail. Last week’s post by Herndon lawyer Landau about Guardians ad Litem addressed how “incompetent” defendants (who are incarcerated or mentally unable to…
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