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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

Car vs. tractor accident sends two to hospital

Posted on May 07, 2010
Viola Dudenhoeffer, 72, and Kennith Eichholz, 47, were injured and hospitalized after a Missouri car accident between a car and John Deere Tractor on Highway 63. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 8 a.m. on Friday as Eichholz was driving his tractor on the highway...

Three car Missouri crash sends two to hospital

Posted on May 03, 2010
A three-car, chain reaction Missouri crash sent two people to the hospital Monday evening in Pulaski County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, all three vehicles involved were traveling eastbound on Missouri highway 28 at around 6:00 p...

Two people seriously injured in Highway 50 crash

Posted on May 01, 2010
Two people were hospitalized after a serious Missouri car accident on Highway 50 in Jackson County. Beverly Cathcard, 80, was driving northbound toward the intersection of Highway 50 and Smart Road, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Also approaching the intersection was Jill Powell, 26...

Jefferson County crash injures three

Posted on April 29, 2010
Three people were hospitalized, including one young child, after a Missouri car accident at the intersection of Route A and Old Highway A in Jefferson County. According to the investigating officer of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Beverly Cornman, 52, was sitting on Old Highway A at a stop sign in her 2004 Dodge Durango...

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May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

Posted on April 27, 2010
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and state transportation departments all around the country are gearing up for Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month in May. Purposely set in spring as the weather warms and riding season gets into full swing, the awareness program is designed to spotlight the dangers of motorcycle riding while providing tips on how to make riding safer and more fun...

Pickup trucks collide; hospitalize six

Posted on April 25, 2010
A Missouri injury accident sent six people to the hospital Sunday after two pickup trucks collided on Highway 51 in Bollinger County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 6:20 p.m. near Highway NN. Lisa Abney, 31, was driving southbound in the first pickup, a 1989 Chevrolet...

When to consult a personal injury attorney

Posted on April 23, 2010
After a Missouri car accident, many people would like to assume that they can rely on their insurance company to take care of them. That's what their customers are paying them for, after all. The mistake people sometimes make is to assume these companies, with their ads claiming that they will protect you in any situation, are not going to be looking for any way to not pay you the amount you deserve...

Ford recalling cars over faulty seats

Posted on April 21, 2010
Ford Motor Company announced a recall of more than 30,000 cars and SUVs to correct a potentially dangerous product defect with the seat recliner mechanisms, according to a Reuters report. The problem could lead to injury in the event of a serious car accident if not corrected...

Missouri motorcyclist rear-ended and injured

Posted on April 19, 2010
Shaun McClure, 28, was seriously injured Monday when the motorcycle he was riding was rear-ended on Missouri 52 in Miller County. This Missouri motorcycle accident occurred just after 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Missouri 52 and Pace Road. McClure was riding a 2003 Yamaha Star Motorcycle westbound at the time of the crash...

Two car accident sends three to hospital

Posted on April 17, 2010
A St. Louis area car accident injured three people, two seriously, on a highway outer road in Jefferson County. The accident occurred as two oncoming vehicles clipped each other when one crossed the center line, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Another Missouri motorcycle accident results in serious injury

Posted on April 16, 2010
Continuing a rash of serious Missouri motorcycle accidents, Keith Geisner, 33, was hospitalized after a crash on Route DD in St. Genevieve County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Geisner was riding a 2000 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound on Route DD just before the accident occurred...

Share the road with motorcycles

Posted on April 13, 2010
As the weather begins to warm up, more and more motorcyclists are hitting the road. Unfortunately, this also means we will start to see more motorcycle injury accidents on local highways. Already, there have been dozens of accidents with most of them resulting in serious injury or even death...

Motorcycle wreck seriously injures Washington, Missouri man

Posted on April 11, 2010
David Presley, 35, was seriously injured Sunday in a Missouri motorcycle accident on Route YY in Franklin County. According to the investigating trooper of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Presley was riding a 2007 Kawasaki Motorcycle eastbound on Route YY at the time of the accident...

Two vehicle collision injures four

Posted on April 09, 2010
Four people were hospitalized Friday after a pickup collided with a car in Johnson County, Missouri. According to the initial accident report on this Missouri car accident, the crash happened at the intersection of Highway 50 and Missouri Route 131. A 1997 Acura, driven by James Frisbey, 31, was heading northbound toward the intersection at the same time as a 2005 GMC pickup, driven by Henry Tiner, 59...

Toyota warned European countries about defects months before U.S.

Posted on April 07, 2010
As more Toyota internal memos become public, a clearer picture of the company's failure to notify customers of safety concerns in a timely manner begins to materialize. The latest revelation to come out of the investigation is that Toyota identified a problem with sticking accelerator pedals in the fall of 2009, months before making the potentially dangerous product defect known in the U...

NHTSA seeking $16 million in fines from Toyota

Posted on April 05, 2010
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking to collect $16.4 million in fines from Toyota for not disclosing the nature of potentially dangerous product defects that may have lead to serious car accidents and could be linked to numerous deaths...

Chain reaction crash sends two to hospital

Posted on April 03, 2010
A Missouri car accident involving three cars occurred Friday afternoon on Interstate 44 and sent two people to the hospital. According to the initial crash report filed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, traffic on the highway began to back up due to an earlier accident...

Not everyone is a "supertasker"

Posted on April 01, 2010
A recent article on Wired's website about multitaskers caught my eye both for the information in the article, and how some people might interpret that information. The article focuses on the findings of a recent study saying that a small percentage of people are exceptionally good at multitasking behind the wheel...

Motorcycle accident seriously injures Missouri couple

Posted on March 29, 2010
Two people were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a Missouri motorcycle crash on Highway 112 near Cassville. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred as Arthur Brophy, 38, and Melissa Brophy, 30, were riding their 1996 Honda motorcycle northbound on the highway...

Missouri man seriously injured after car hits tractor

Posted on March 27, 2010
Laccey Umfleet, 41, was seriously injured Saturday morning after his truck collided with a John Deere tractor in Cape Girardeau County. This Missouri injury accident occurred at 9:45 a.m. on Missouri 25 near Dutchtown. Umfleet was driving a 2007 Chevy pickup southbound on Missouri 25 when he came upon a John Deere tractor, driven by Joshua Veussink, 23...

Steps to take after a hit and run accident

Posted on March 25, 2010
Being in a serious car accident is stressful enough under normal conditions. You are worried about your health and the safety of those riding with you. Then your thoughts wander to how you are going to pay for the damages and what you need to tell the insurance company...

Rear-end collision injures three in Jefferson County

Posted on March 23, 2010
Three people were injured in a Tuesday evening Missouri car accident on Highway 21 in Jefferson County, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. The accident occurred around 6:15 when Joey Holmes, 47, slowed his northbound 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee to turn into a private driveway...

Winter burst causes dozens of accidents

Posted on March 21, 2010
In what was probably Winter's last gasp, a massive snow storm dropped up to a foot of snow in some places in the state causing dozens of Missouri car accidents. Local media reports, predominately from southern Missouri, listed dozens of crashes in the area...

Text messaging leads to Mid-Missouri accident

Posted on March 17, 2010
Becky Burkhart, 28, was seriously injured Wednesday when she was hit in a rear-end collision accident by a driver who was texting behind the wheel. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Burkhart was driving southbound on Missouri Highway 5 in a 1995 Toyota when the accident occurred...

Honda issues recall for brake system flaw

Posted on March 15, 2010
A car manufacturer just issued a recall for a potentially dangerous product defect, but this time it wasn't Toyota. After months of expanding recalls for Toyota vehicles, Honda Motor Company has issued its own recall specifically relating to the brake systems in the Odyssey minivan and Element SUV...

Missouri teen killed while walking along roadway

Posted on March 13, 2010
Tiffaney Fisher, 18, was killed Friday evening after she was hit by a 2004 Ford while walking along the roadway in Dunklin County, Missouri. Many of the details are not available at this time, but what we do know is that Fisher was walking along Missouri 164 around 7:21 p...

Jefferson County, Missouri crash kills Hillsboro senior

Posted on March 10, 2010
Marjorie Harris, 89, was killed Wednesday morning in a Missouri car accident on the corner of Hillsboro House Springs Road and Tishomingo Road. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Harris was a passenger in a 2005 Ford Explorer heading eastbound through the intersection around 11:10 a...

Toyota claims acceleration problems aren't caused by electronics

Posted on March 08, 2010
As Toyota continues to come under fire from federal safety officials for potentially dangerous manufacturing defects, the automaker has presented evidence that it says shows the sudden acceleration problems is mechanical and not an electronic glitch...

Missouri motorcycle-ATV crash kills one teen and injures another

Posted on March 06, 2010
A tragic Missouri motorcycle accident took the life of a Missouri teenager and left another in serious condition Saturday evening in McDonald County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Michael Dutton, 17, was riding a Kawasaki motorcycle on Bear Hollow Road at the same time Camron Bridges, 17, was approaching on a Kawasaki four-wheeler...

Toyota recall fixes not working, some drivers say

Posted on March 04, 2010
More than a dozen reports of sudden, uncontrolled acceleration incidents have been sent to officials concerning Toyota vehicles that had supposedly been fixed under the massive recalls of the past few months. According to an AP report, at least 15 people have had sudden acceleration problems, though no indication was given as to whether these incidents resulted in a serious car accident...

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