A track star and mother of two was recently awarded $664,328 by a Florida jury for compensatory damages for past and future medical expenses, as well as past and future pain and suffering. The injured athlete was driving a car struck by a commercial truck whose driver had gotten little to no sleep the night…
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In a prior post, we discussed a case in which a driver who was injured after being struck by a sleep-deprived truck driver was awarded a large verdict as compensation for her injuries. That case is a good lead-in to a discussion of an article published in USA Today about new limits on truck drivers’…
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Anyone who rides the W&OD Trail West past Route 28 and Dulles Airport, knows the intersection at Belmont Ridge Road (Route 659, near Ashburn, as pointed out by alert reader Alan Muchnik), with trucks barreling down in both directions, is the place where you would expect to see a serious bike injury. My own wife,…
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