According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are approximately five-thousand pedestrian deaths and almost seventy-thousand pedestrian injuries each year. These numbers equate to nearly one pedestrian death every two hours and a pedestrian injury every eight minutes. With those types of numbers, and Halloween right around the corner, when thousands of children will […]
It has been reported that an 11-year-old child was struck by a truck early Thursday morning. The driver of the offending truck then fled the scene of the accident. Sgt. Paul Parizek, of the Des Moines Police Department, confirmed that officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Easton Boulevard. The child reportedly suffered minor injuries […]
The Iowa State Patrol has reported that a West Delaware School District bus was struck by an SUV earlier today causing the bus, with 32 students on board, to rollover. The children on board the bus ranged from kindergarten through 12th grade. At first blush, it appears that none of the children or involved drivers […]
Over the past several years, the topic of self-driving cars has been the focus of many an article. Typically, these articles discuss the software and hardware needed to make these cars go while other topics include how the testing is progressing and how the future looks for self-driving cars. As a personal injury lawyer, I […]
Why And What Are Cable Median Barriers? Head-on collisions often result in serious injury and, in some cases, death. The types of injuries and number of fatalities increases as the speed of the involved vehicles increases so, it follows, highway speed head-on collisions often result in catastrophic injury and death. In an effort to curb […]
Watch the above video to see but one of the places bed bugs hide. This video was taken by an actual client of Attorney Chris Johnston and has been posted here with permission. WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE! It seems that a few years ago you couldn’t read a newspaper or turn on the news without hearing that some top […]
Insurance giant State Farm recently released the results of a study in which it was found that the likelihood of striking a deer while driving in Iowa is higher than all but two other states in the nation. In other words, Iowa drivers have submitted the third highest number of car versus deer claims nationally. […]
Multiple sources are reporting that a 16 year old male was fatally injured in an ATV crash in Guttenberg, Iowa. Television station KCRG out of Cedar Rapids reported the accident happened at approximately 3 o’clock a.m. Sunday in Clayton County, approximately five miles north of Guttenberg. According to KCRG, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office says the boy was a […]
Four Iowans sustained injuries after the boat in which they were riding struck the shore at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that the incident, referred to as a “grounding”, happened on the Big Niangua area of the lake. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, none of the four […]
The Des Moines Register reports that a 27 year old man was tragically killed in grain bin accident at the co-op in Farnhamville, Iowa. It is being reported that the man was cleaning the grain bin when he was engulfed by soybeans. As noted elsewhere in this site, the agricultural industry is one of the […]