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Motor vehicle accidents can be so serious that they quickly lead to permanent injuries and fatalities. Among the most dangerous are T-bone accidents and head-on collisions. Why are they so dangerous? In a head-on collision, both vehicles may be traveling at the speed limit before hitting. This doubles the force of the accident compared…

Serious injuries of any kind have an immediate impact on your life and on the lives of those around you. Whether you’ve suffered a brain injury, lost a limb or have other serious wounds that require ongoing treatment, the reality is that your life is going to be changed now. With serious injuries, there…

Sometimes, crashes are severe and injure many. Lives may be lost as a result of a single person’s poor judgment. Take, for example, a case out of Chicago involving police officers who were rushing to a crime scene. According to the story, two police vehicles, one marked and one unmarked, were traveling to a…

It’s essential for drivers to pay attention to the roads. It’s possible that a vehicle in front of theirs could have a problem occur and need to come to a stop quickly, or there could be traffic ahead forcing traffic to slow. When drivers aren’t leaving enough space between their vehicle and the next,…

Road rash is a horrifying side effect of getting into a collision on a motorcycle without the appropriate gear. When your skin is exposed to the friction of the roadway, it can rip off in layers. Sometimes, the muscles are exposed in severe cases. When a victim has suffered road rash or other serious…

Slip-and-fall accidents can be fatal. While you might think about slip-and-fall accidents as one-off incidents that lead to broken wrists or a bump on the head, the truth is that they can be significant and cause real harm to the victims. Slip-and-fall accidents can happen for many reasons. For example, if your loved one…

When you suffer a serious injury such as a traumatic brain injury, there is much recovery that has to take place. In some cases, people don’t fully recover from traumatic events, but there is a great potential for at least some quality recovery. Immediately after you’re involved in an accident where you hit your…

It’s a horrible thought that someone who was arrested within the last 24 hours was released and had to be arrested a second time due to causing a person’s death. Sadly, that’s what happened in Chicago, according to a Feb. 4 report. The story states that a 15-year-old girl was killed in Chicago Ridge…

When you place your loved one in a nursing home, the last thing you would expect is to find out that they’ve passed away suddenly. You may have many questions about what happened and why, especially if they were not ill or in poor physical shape. Wrongful deaths do take place in nursing homes…

Catastrophic injuries can be difficult for a person to live with. These often come with considerable pain and changes in what they are able to do. Brain damage and spinal cord injuries are two examples of what will fall under this category. When the injury was caused by the negligence of another person, you…