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Missouri Accident Lawyer Blog

Information about Illinois and Missouri Injury Law as well as up-to-date news from the legal sector.
By Ryan Bradley, Esq.

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 01:55:49

Winter Brings Car and Truck Accidents to the St. Louis Area

Posted on December 18, 2010
Over the last few days, the St. Louis area has been inundated with hundreds of car and truck accidents resulting in injuries to many. Winter weather typically creeps upon on us in the Midwest and for some reason, many Missouri drivers simply forget the simple basics of driving in inclement weather...

FDA announces withdrawal of propoxyphene

Posted on November 21, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has suggested that makers of propoxyphene voluntarily withdraw the product from stores due to the medicine's potentially dangerous side effects. Data has shown that propoxyphene users are at risk for developing arrhythmia, a condition of irregular heartbeats that can cause serious health problems including sudden death...

Missouri teen survives railroad crossing accident

Posted on November 15, 2010
Kendra Wood, 19, was involved in a serious injury accident over the weekend, but the outcome of the crash involving a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train could have been much worse. According to local media reports, Wood was driving her Mercury Sable along County Road 161 after work...

Medical errors prevalent in recent years

Posted on November 13, 2010
A couple weeks ago, we commented on a Harvard study that concluded that malpractice insurance and defensive medicine make up a small percentage of overall healthcare costs. Those wanting to cut costs significantly will have to find another way besides tort reform...

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Five hospitalized after Washington County wreck

Posted on November 11, 2010
Five people were injured, four of which were teenagers, after a Missouri car crash on Highway 185 in Washington County. The serious injury accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 185 and Strange Road. Desiree Link, 16, was driving northbound in a 2003 Ford Focus...

Van accident injures five in Jeffeson County

Posted on November 07, 2010
Five people were hospitalized Sunday after the van they were riding in crashed into another vehicle on Highway 30 in Jefferson County, Missouri. This Missouri van accident took place shortly after 4:00 p.m. just west of Route B. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the van was a 2008 Dodge Caravan being driven by William Hoare, 72...

Harvard study confirms malpractice defense a small percent of healthcare cost

Posted on November 05, 2010
In the wake of the midterm elections, an all too familiar topic has once again risen among political pundits: healthcare. Specifically, some in congress seem ready to try and repeal the latest healthcare reform and replace it with something else. Unfortunately, that something else would likely include some type of tort reform designed to restrict payouts in medical malpractice cases...

Mother and son killed in Pulaski County accident

Posted on November 03, 2010
Diana Dawes, 43, and her son, Ivan Barton, 19, were killed when their car was hit head-on by a driver attempting to pass another vehicle. This fatal Missouri car accident occurred on Highway C near the town of Dixon. Dawes was driving a 2000 Ford Taurus eastbound at the time of the accident, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol...

Missouri man seriously injured in accident with tractor

Posted on November 01, 2010
Brandon Butterfield, 37, was seriously injured in a Missouri car accident when the vehicle he was driving hit a farm tractor on Highway 32 in Cedar County. Butterfield was driving a 2002 Ford Explorer westbound at the time of the serious car wreck. At approximately 6:20 p...

Tar on roadway can become hazard for motorcyclists

Posted on October 30, 2010
A common sight on Missouri roadways, the black tar lines that criss-cross the street in many locations don't seem to pose much of a threat. This is true for the average motorist driving a car, but for motorcyclists it's a different story. Those lines, sometimes called "black tar snakes", can be incredibly dangerous to two-wheeled vehicles and have lead to a number of deadly motorcycle accidents...

Man killed after collision with passing vehicle

Posted on October 26, 2010
Jason Bollinger, 27, was killed in a Missouri car accident after a collision with a vehicle attempting to pass him on Route 47. Bollinger, a resident of Park Hills, Missouri, was heading north on Route 47 in a Mercury Cougar at the time of the fatal car crash, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

FDA concerned over MRI drugs

Posted on October 24, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a statement expressing concern over the risks associated with certain imaging agents used during MRI procedures. The agency warned against dangerous side effects of the drugs, especially for people who have existing kidney problems...

Brake problems prompt two recalls

Posted on October 22, 2010
Toyota and Honda have both issued recalls for thousands of vehicles over brake fluid issues that could lead to diminished brake pedal performance and the possibility of a serious car accident. The potentially dangerous vehicle defect has prompted Toyota to recall 740,000 vehicles, including 2004-2007 Avalons, Highlanders and a number of Lexus models...

Rear-end collision injures Missouri family

Posted on October 21, 2010
Five people were hospitalized, three under the age of 13, after a Missouri rear-end collision on Highway 39 in Stockton. The events leading to this serious injury accident began with Eric Luff, 49, bringing the 1997 Honda Accord he was driving to a stop in order to make a left turn...

Missouri man killed after motorcycle accident

Posted on October 17, 2010
Larry Winch, 59, was killed in a St. Francois County motorcycle accident when he collided with a car on Route D Sunday afternoon. Winch was riding his 1999 Yamaha XVS1100 southbound on Route D at the time of the wreck, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Another Missouri school bus accident causes injury

Posted on October 15, 2010
Two people were injured, including a 13-year-old student, after a Missouri school bus accident on Highway 47 in Lincoln County. This wreck is the latest in a string of crashes in the past couple months. Earlier this month, a school bus was hit by a tractor-trailer and 19 people were injured...

Six teenagers injured in head-on collision

Posted on October 13, 2010
A total of six people, all 18 or younger, were injured in a Missouri head-on collision on County Road 418 in Livingston County. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 6:20 p.m. Tuesday near Ludlow. Two vehicles, a 1993 Ford Ranger driven by Justin Jones, 16, and a 1990 Geo Tracker driven by Aaron Reed, 17, were approaching each other from opposite directions...

Missouri man killed in skydiving accident

Posted on October 12, 2010
Jonathan Bullar, 24, a Missouri resident, was killed Saturday evening after falling thousands of feet in an Illinois skydiving accident. Investigators are still looking into the cause of the fatal accident, but at the moment, they believe the death was an accident caused by an apparent parachute malfunction...

Google developing fleet of self-driving cars

Posted on October 11, 2010
Science fiction films and literature have often been overly ambitious in predicting what our day-to-day lives will be like in the future as technology progresses. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's version of 2001 projected our ability to explore space to be a little more advanced than what the reality of 2001 brought us...

Meridia to be taken off the market over health concerns

Posted on October 09, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration has announced the drug Meridia (also known as sibutramine) is being taken off the market by its distributor after clinical trials demonstrated there was an increased risk for strokes and heart attacks among people who used it...

Missouri plane crash claims one life

Posted on October 07, 2010
Kathy Collins, a resident of Springfield, Mo., was killed and two others were injured in a Missouri small plane crash as the aircraft was attempting to land at a Springfield airfield. Many details, including the type of plane and cause of crash, have yet to be revealed by investigators, but there are some facts being reported by local media...

Motorcyclist injures pedestrians after losing control performing trick

Posted on October 05, 2010
Three people were hospitalized, including two pedestrians, after a St. Charles County motorcycle accident on Highway 94. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, John Gall, 36, was traveling southbound on the highway on his 2006 Kawasaki Motorcycle when he attempted to perform a wheelie just north of Firehouse Drive...

Hit-and-run driver triggers accident that injures St. Louis woman

Posted on October 01, 2010
Lynn Blackey, 59, was hospitalized after a St. Louis car accident which began with her car getting struck by a hit-and-run driver on I-44. Blackey was heading eastbound on the interstate in her 2009 Kia Spectra at the time of the accident, according to the initial crash report...

FDA aims to cut risk of clinical trials

Posted on September 29, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration is laying down new rules for clinical trials and how they report potentially dangerous defects in drugs they are evaluating. The new regulations handed down by the FDA will make the reports required of clinical trials more comprehensive in how they document risks and speed up the timeline in which these reports must be filed...

Highway 67 accident hospitalizes two

Posted on September 27, 2010
Joshua Odenthal, 20, and Aleyce Ashbrook, 19, were both injured in a St. Louis area car accident when the car they were in was hit by another vehicle on Highway 67 in Jefferson County. Odenthal and Ashbrook were riding in a 1999 Mercury Sable heading southbound on the highway when the serious car crash occurred, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Fatal accident in I-35 construction zone

Posted on September 25, 2010
Seth Stanley, 27, was killed and two others were injured in a three-vehicle Missouri car wreck near a construction zone on Interstate 35. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 7:30 p.m. Friday at mile marker 33...

Motorcyclist seriously injured in wreck with tractor-trailer

Posted on September 23, 2010
Michael Winters, 28, was seriously injured in a Missouri motorcycle accident when he collided with a tractor-trailer on Missouri Highway 5 in Laclede County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Winters was traveling northbound on a 2006 Suzuki motorcycle when the accident occurred...

Washington summit takes aim at distracted driving

Posted on September 21, 2010
Legislators and transportation officials gathered on Tuesday for a summit on the dangers of distracted driving and its role in fatal car accidents across the country. The meeting is taking place on the heels of the release of new statistics saying the percentage of serious traffic crashes involving distracted driving has not dropped in the past couple years...

4-year-old Missouri girl killed by hit-and-run driver

Posted on September 19, 2010
A tragic pedestrian accident claimed the life of a young Kansas City girl and has authorities and residents looking for the driver of the truck that hit her. The victim, being identified by local media only by her first name, Taylor, was a four-year-old girl who lived on 152nd Terrace...

Toyota admits to software bug in black boxes

Posted on September 17, 2010
Throughout the past year, Toyota Motor Corp. has been involved in a number of high profile recalls spurred by concerns of sudden, uncontrollable acceleration and serious car accidents. From recall to recall, the automaker has tried to blame the problem on a number of different issues based on data from on-board black box data recorders, similar to the type used to determine the cause of airplane crashes...

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