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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

Terrible three-car Missouri wreck kills one and injures nine

Posted on July 11, 2010
Lynn Fraker, 54, of North Liberty, Iowa, was killed and nine others were injured in a Missouri car accident on Highway 54. The accident occurred shortly after 2 p.m. when a 1998 Pontiac, driven by Charles Howdeshell, 50, attempted to pass a 2004 Mazda, driven by Douglas Hill, 50...

Pilot injured after Missouri plane crash

Posted on July 09, 2010
One man was injured in a Missouri plane crash involving an agricultural aircraft in Chillicothe. The pilot, whose name has not yet been released, was able to walk to a farmhouse and call for help after his plane crashed just outside the municipal airport of Chillicothe...

Three vehicle crash injures five

Posted on July 05, 2010
Five people were injured, three seriously, in a Missouri car accident involving three separate vehicles in St. Genevieve County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on Route F just after 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Two vehicles, a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier and a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado, were traveling westbound while a third vehicle, a 2006 Ford F150, was heading eastbound...

Hands free devices still a dangerous distraction

Posted on July 03, 2010
In all the recent news about texting bans, the dangers of hands free devices might be getting lost in the background noise. Just because you can keep both hands on the steering wheel, talking with a hands free device has been shown to still increase the risk of a serious car accident...

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St. Clair County crash kills one and injures four

Posted on July 01, 2010
Casey Bain, 25, was killed and another four people were seriously injured in a Missouri car accident that took place on Route B in St. Clair County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident took place just before 8 p.m. near the town of Rockville...

Lab explosion injures four people at the University of Missouri

Posted on June 29, 2010
Four people were injured during a lab experiment on the campus of the University of Missouri when an explosion erupted in a lab located in Schweitzer Hall. According to local media reports, a group of lab technicians were conducting an experiment with bacteria and hydrogen...

Texting laws continue to spread around the country

Posted on June 27, 2010
More states will soon have anti-texting-while-driving laws go into effect in an attempt to reduce the number of car accident injuries, according to an NPR report. Six laws will go into effect in just the next month, including a ban in Georgia. Missouri is among the more than thirty states with at least some type of texting ban...

Missouri woman killed in head-on collision

Posted on June 25, 2010
Judy Braden, 58, was killed and another woman was injured in a terrible Missouri car accident on Missouri Highway 7. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Braden was heading northbound in a 2006 Nissan Altima at the time of the crash. Approaching her in the southbound lane was a 1996 Buick Le Sabre, driven by Joanne Goeth, 50...

Missouri bicyclist hit by car

Posted on June 22, 2010
Kenneth McFarland, 75, was injured and hospitalized after being hit by a car while he was out for a morning bike ride in Clay County, Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, McFarland was heading northbound towards the intersection of Route W and Route C when the Missouri car accident occurred...

St. Francois County wreck hospitalizes two

Posted on June 20, 2010
Michael Kinneman, 56, and Henry Williams, 33, were both injured in a Missouri car accident when their vehicles collided on Highway 67 in St. Francois County. According to the investigating officer, Williams was traveling southbound on Highway 67 in a 2005 Chevy Suburban at the time of the crash...

Missouri couple killed in plane crash

Posted on June 17, 2010
Orlan Kellenberger, 64, and his wife, Mary Kellenberger, 64, were both killed in a fatal plane crash in Iowa as they attempted to fly back to their Missouri home. According to local media, the couple had been visiting West Bend, Iowa and were taking their Beechcraft A36 Bonanza home when it lost power and crashed...

Missouri law enforcement plan to limit fatal crashes

Posted on June 14, 2010
A statewide law enforcement campaign to limit the number of serious Missouri car accidents will be returning this summer after some success last year. The campaign, called High Enforcement Action Teams (HEAT), consists of increased patrols on area highways with particular attention paid toward stopping aggressive drivers...

Tractor accident seriously injures Missouri man

Posted on June 12, 2010
James Kenagy, 56, was seriously injured in a Missouri car accident Friday afternoon when the John Deere farm tractor he was driving was hit by another car. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the other vehicle was a 2010 Mercury Milan, driven by William Roark, 34...

GM recalling vehicles

Posted on June 10, 2010
General Motors has issued a recall of over 1.5 million vehicles in response to the discovery of a potentially dangerous product defect. The recall is aimed at certain vehicles produced in the last four years with a heated windshield wiper fluid system...

Missouri reforms DWI laws to crack down on repeat offenders

Posted on June 08, 2010
Gov. Jay Nixon signed into law a reform of the state's DWI laws that aim to be stricter on repeat offenders and limit the number of serious Missouri car accidents caused by drunk drivers. Some of the key components of the new bill are: -Cases involving repeat offenders must be moved from a municipal court to a state court, where the penalties are tougher...

ATV hit-and-run accident sends man to hospital

Posted on June 06, 2010
Authorities are looking for information on an ATV driver that hit a pedestrian and then fled the scene in Dent County. According to the Highway Patrol, the Missouri hit-and-run injury accident took place on County Road 5160 a little after 11:00 p.m. on Saturday...

Missouri motorcycle wreck injures rider

Posted on June 05, 2010
Steven Kreter, 38, was seriously injured in a Missouri motorcycle accident on Highway 50 after his motorcycle was struck by another vehicle. The accident occurred as Kreter was heading eastbound on Highway 50 and approached Route W, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Tractor trailer crash near Herculaneum kills two

Posted on June 02, 2010
Photo by KMOV-TV A terrible Missouri tractor trailer crash occurred Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 55 leaving two people dead and another five with significant injuries. The accident took place at the McNutt Street exit near Herculaneum. According to the initial crash report on file with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the driver of the tractor trailer was Jay Valentine, 32...

Statistics on train-vehicle crashes

Posted on May 31, 2010
In following up on a previous post about Missouri train-vehicle crashes, I wanted to post some statistics related to the problem both in the St. Louis area and around the country. Nationwide, there have been over 30,000 railroad crossing accidents and 3,600 deaths in the past decade...

Missouri has thousands of dangerous railroad crossings

Posted on May 29, 2010
A Fox 4 Kansas City report has revealed Missouri has more than 2,000 dangerous railroad crossings without working warning lights or bells. The report is a follow up to a story of a Trenton, Missouri railroad crossing accident that claimed three lives...

Memorial Day traffic season almost here

Posted on May 27, 2010
It's nearly Memorial Day weekend and that means the kids will be finishing up school, the pools will be opening and the barbecue grills will be hot. It also means that a lot of people will be out on the roadways. Memorial Day is a very busy traveling holiday, especially for motorists...

Two accidents send five Missourians to the hospital

Posted on May 25, 2010
Two separate Missouri car accident cases were responsible for hospitalizing five people yesterday, one of them being a 9-year-old child. The first accident occurred just before 10 a.m. in Washington County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Cerrisa Vick, 44, had stopped her 1999 Chevrolet Blazer on Missouri Highway 8 to make a left turn...

Comparative negligence

Posted on May 23, 2010
In most Missouri car accidents, the liability insurance of the at fault driver will pay for the injured party's medical bills and other expenses. But what about cases where both drivers were at fault for an injury accident? It's in these cases where comparative negligence may come into play...

Serious crash occurs as Missouri man runs stop sign

Posted on May 21, 2010
Two people were seriously injured in a Missouri car accident late Friday afternoon in Clay County. The accident occurred at the intersection of Nation and 144th Street. According to the investigating trooper from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Chris Wickerson, 57, arrived at the intersection in a 1994 Geo Metro...

Teens driving after dark leads to more accidents

Posted on May 19, 2010
A new nationwide study of young drivers shows that driving at night is the biggest risk factor and causes the most fatalities in serious car accidents. While it may seem obvious that driving at night is more dangerous than driving during the day, what is surprising is the degree at which the risk rises...

Missouri legislature doesn't ban texting for all drivers

Posted on May 17, 2010
Since Missouri banned drivers under the age of 21 from texting behind the wheel last year, the debate has focused on whether to ban texting for all drivers. The state legislature has decided, for now, that it will not ban texting for adult drivers. Laws against texting and driving have been adopted in numerous states around the country as a way of combating distracted driving and the serious car accident injuries it can cause...

Two seriously injured on Highway 65

Posted on May 15, 2010
Two men were hospitalized after a serious Missouri car accident at the intersection of Highway 65 and Sacajawea Road. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol's investigating officer, Joshua Dillon, 25, and Robert Smith, 47, were driving separate cars on the highway at the time of the crash...

Motorcycle wreck hospitalizes Missouri man

Posted on May 13, 2010
Ronald Hall, 20, was injured in a Missouri motorcycle accident on Missouri 76 near Tiff City. Hall was riding his 1997 Suzuki motorcycle westbound at the time of the wreck, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report. He approached an intersection at the same time as Charles Bales, 58, who was driving a 2001 Oldsmobile...

Head-on collision sends two to hospital

Posted on May 11, 2010
Two people were injured and hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after a Missouri car crash on Route 47 in Franklin County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Mark Taylor, 49, and Ashlea Spires, 29, were each driving on Route 47 at the time of the accident...

Traffic accidents leading cause of death for American teens

Posted on May 09, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control has issued a report stating that serious car accidents are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States. Over a third of all teenage deaths can be attributed to traffic accidents. According to the report, over 16,000 teens die each year from car accident injuries...

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