In Washington D.C. on Thursday, truck safety advocates asked a federal court to block a ruling by the Transportation Department that lets commercial truckers work longer hours. The Bush Administration had upped the number of hours that truck drivers could work without going on a break to 11 hours (prior…
In 2006, 96 pedestrians died in traffic accidents on Maryland’s roads. There are four areas where 70% of the fatalities occurred: Montgomery County, Baltimore County, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore City. Maryland law mandates that drivers yield to pedestrians. However, this doesn’t always happen, and many pedestrians are injured or…
In Washington D.C., Howard University Hospital and Daniel and Dorothy Rosenbaum, the adult children of deceased New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum, have reached a settlement in the medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit filed against D.C. emergency workers and the hospital. The 63-year-old reporter, who had just retired after 30…
The Los Angeles Times says that there have been some 540 serious motor vehicle accidents involving runaway trailers in the United States since 2000. Hundreds of people have sustained injuries in these crashes, which usually involve at least one helpless victim getting caught in the wake of an out-of-control trailer.…
A teenager was stabbed in the arm on a Maryland Transit Administration bus No. 51 in Maryland yesterday. Baltimore police arrested two juveniles in connection to the assault. The assault occurred near Mondawmin Mall when a fight broke out in the back of the bus. The bus driver pressed the…
Three people died in Baltimore on Sunday when their SUV was hit by a Baltimore City fire truck at the intersection of Clarks Lane and Park Heights Avenue. The deadly crash happened after 3 am when a ladder truck, rushing to the scene of an apartment building fire struck the…
The family of Shirley Cooper, a 72-year-old Baltimore resident who was murdered at the Temple Gardens apartment complex, has filed a $14 million wrongful death lawsuit against ETG Associates and Roizman Development because of the inadequate security that allegedly allowed an intruder to kill Shirley on June 2. The attacker…
Silver Spring resident Norma Almeraya-Soria, 35, died on November 21 after she was hit by a tractor-trailer in Montgomery County, Maryland. Almeraya-Soria was on the curb near the sidewalk at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Stewart Lane in Silver Spring when the axle of a tractor-trailer trying to make…
A woman infected with HIV and hepatitis from the kidney she received from a donor says she was not notified that her donor was high-risk. She also says that she previously turned down another donor due to his “lifestyle.” Her attorney in Illinois asked the Cook County Circuit Court to…
Anne Arundel resident Gayle K. Queen filed a class action lawsuit against power company Constellation Energy last week. Constellation Energy is the largest power company in Maryland. Queen says her husband David died of kidney failure in 2006 because he drank water with traces of arsenic, lead, and other pollutants.…