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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

Unionville man arrested for drunk driving after accident

Posted on November 08, 2008
David Coyle, 23, was charged with driving while intoxicated Saturday after a Missouri accident that sent him and another man to the hospital. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Coyle was northbound on Highway 136 in a 1993 Chevrolet and attempted to make a left turn near the Unionville city limits...

School bus crashes in St. Louis

Posted on November 07, 2008
Photo from KSDK.com Eight children were taken to Cardinal Glennon Children?s hospital today after a bus crash, according to numerous area media reports. The bus crashed into a telephone pole on the corner of Broadway and Lafayette at approximately 8 a...

Hit-and-run accidents on the rise

Posted on November 01, 2008
A study by USA Today shows that the number of hit-and-run car accidents has jumped 20% since 2000 and is now at its highest level in more than a decade. Leaving the scene of an accident is a felony offense and results in hundreds of deaths each year...

Head-on collision seriously injures Missouri woman

Posted on October 30, 2008
Shirley Foreman, 81, was seriously injured Thursday after being involved in a head-on collision on Butter Hollow Avenue in Benton County, Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when a westbound 2000 GMC, driven by Marc Bulva, 35, crossed the center line into oncoming traffic...

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Two killed by accident with tractor trailer in Cass County, Missouri

Posted on October 30, 2008
Deanna Reynolds, 40, and Edwina Perez, 65, were killed Wednesday when a tractor trailer slid sideways into oncoming traffic on Missouri 291 in Cass County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the tractor trailer, driven by Calvin Layden, 23, began to slide sideways as Layden attempted to make a right turn onto 239th street...

Four injured in two-car collision

Posted on October 27, 2008
Four people were injured, two seriously, when two cars collided Sunday on Highway 51 in Perry County, Missouri. The accident occurred when a northbound 1987 Ford Crown Victoria, driven by Joann Jennin, 60, traveled off the right side of the road. Jennin overcorrected while trying the keep the car from going off the roadway and veered into the southbound lane...

Suspected hit-and-run driver arrested in Southeastern Missouri

Posted on October 26, 2008
Gale Smith, 41, of Piedmont, Mo. was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed one pedestrian and seriously injured another. The accident happened early Saturday morning when Dean Nordman, 41, and Jacob Thomas, 14, were attempting to cross Route HH in Wayne County...

Rear-end collision sends car into oncoming traffic in Camden County, Missouri

Posted on October 24, 2008
Six people were injured, four seriously, when a 1998 Chevrolet was forced into oncoming traffic on Missouri Highway 5 near North Junction. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred Monday afternoon when the Chevrolet, driven by Jerry Blair, 37, was rear-ended by a 2006 Cadillac, driven by Forrest Riley, 84...

Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Myths

Posted on October 23, 2008
Proponents of tort reform and damage caps on malpractice cases would have you believe that these are steps to improving the health-care industry. They spread many myths and half-truths about how they are lowering costs and saving doctors. In reality all these measures do is tamper with the natural legal process and leave some severely injured people without the means to pay for their recovery...

Woman killed when car pushed into path of tractor-trailer

Posted on October 21, 2008
Margaret McCurnin, 76, was killed Monday when the car she was riding in was hit front behind and pushed into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer on Missouri 171 near Carl Junction. The accident occurred around 1:25 p.m. when the 2002 Mercury McCurnin was riding in slowed on the highway and was rear-ended by a 1999 Chrysler, driven by Shane McGinnis, 23...

Lincoln County crash seriously injures two drivers

Posted on October 21, 2008
Two Missouri drivers were hospitalized Monday night after their cars collided on Missouri Route U, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Kimberlee Harper, 38, of Moscow Mills, was traveling west in a 2008 Ford Focus when she failed to negotiate a curve and lost control of her vehicle...

Missouri woman killed when SUV hit by tractor-trailer

Posted on October 19, 2008
Shirley Riffe, 47, was killed Sunday when a tractor-trailer hit a SUV on the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 44 in Franklin County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Riffe was a passenger in the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban SUV, which had sustained a flat tire...

Warrensburg woman seriously injured in crash

Posted on October 18, 2008
Tonya Wheeler, 22, was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when the car she was riding in collided with a pickup at an uncontrolled intersection on County Road 251 in Johnson County. According to the investigating officer, both the car and the pickup entered the intersection at the same time...

Missouri Law ? Statute of Limitations

Posted on October 17, 2008
When someone is considering taking legal action for a personal injury they received, one of the issues that must first be examined is the statute of limitations that applies to their case. A statute of limitations is essentially a time limit in which legal action must be taken after some wrongful or negligent conduct causes injury...

Franklin County crash kills two drivers

Posted on October 16, 2008
Robbie Boyer, 25, and Charles Bine, 49, were killed Thursday when their cars collided on Highway 50 near Union, Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred around 6:50 p.m. when Boyer?s 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier crossed the center line and collided head-on with Bine?s 1999 Chevrolet Silverado pickup...

Woman involved in Highway 291 crash dies

Posted on October 14, 2008
A sad update to a story we reported on earlier. Denise Greene, 44, of Greenwood, Mo. passed away after battling with injuries sustained in a wreck over the weekend. Adam Maze, 19, who was also involved in that crash, remains hospitalized with serious injuries...

Victim remains unidentified after 10-vehicle crash near Joplin

Posted on October 13, 2008
Photo from OzarksFirst.com Authorities are still trying to identify one of the victims killed Wednesday in a 10-vehicle crash on I-44 near Joplin. The Missouri accident, which involved two tractor-trailers, killed two and injured five others. The unidentified male was badly burned by fires that broke out as a result of the accident...

Two seriously injured in head-on collision

Posted on October 12, 2008
Two Missourians were seriously injured Saturday night in a head-on collision on Highway 291 in Cass County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Adam Maze, 19, of Strasburg, Mo. was traveling south in a 2007 Toyota when he crossed into oncoming traffic...

Multi-car Missouri Crash injures five south of Rolla

Posted on October 08, 2008
Five people were injured, one seriously, in a four-car crash Friday afternoon on Highway 63 about eight miles south of Rolla, Missouri. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Melissa Coomer, 28, was traveling south on Highway 63 in a 2000 Pontiac Montana, but was stopping in preparation of turning left onto County Road 5340...

2 killed by sleeping truck driver

Posted on September 28, 2008
Yasmin Jackson, 19, and Kevetta Davis, 19, were killed Friday when a truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel crashed into their SUV on I-57 in Southern Illinois. The truck driver, identified as Dennis Hernandez, 38, was transporting equipment for musician and TV star Bret Michaels when he fell asleep, crossed the center line, and crashed into Jackson?s SUV as well as a pickup...

Missouri Highway Patrol completes major crash investigation

Posted on September 24, 2008
The Major Crash Investigation Unit of the Missouri State Highway Patrol completed an investigation into a March 21, 2008 tractor-trailer crash that killed three children south of Rolla, according to the Rolla Daily News. The accident occurred when a 2003 Freightliner tractor-trailer, driven by Alvin Lewis, 38, rear-ended a 1989 Ford Tempo on Highway 63 near Edgar Springs...

Three children among the six injured in rear-end collision near Springfield, Missouri

Posted on September 20, 2008
A three-car accident on Missouri 13 injured six people Saturday morning just north of Springfield, Missouri. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Troy Caskey, 46, and Katherine Vannatta, 49, had stopped their vehicles for a red light at the intersection of Missouri 13 and Route O...

Five injured in multi-car Missouri accident on U.S. 65

Posted on September 19, 2008
Five people were hospitalized Friday afternoon after a four-car accident on U.S. 65 in Dallas County. The accident occurred when Joseph Ritsch, 70, stopped his 2007 Ford Focus to make a left turn onto Route TT about 12 miles south of Buffalo, Missouri...

Lawsuits filed against former Missouri insulation factory

Posted on September 18, 2008
Five lawsuits have been filed this month against numerous companies and people associated with Rockwool Industries, a company that manufactured insulation, for allegedly contributing to dozens of illnesses in Cameron, Missouri. Rockwool Industries, which closed in 1991, operated a factory near the city of Cameron that used various chemicals and industrial procedures to turn iron into fiber insulation...

Missouri plane crash launched investigation into skydiving industry

Posted on September 16, 2008
The National Transportation Safety Board released a special report Tuesday that identified numerous safety issues with the skydiving industry. The report was in response to several recent tragedies across the country involving malfunctioning parachutes and poorly maintained planes used to launch the parachutists...

One dead and another injured after three-car accident near Maryville

Posted on September 13, 2008
Linsey Nelson, 19, was killed and Larry Logsdon, 65, was seriously injured Friday in an accident on Highway 71 north of Maryville. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when Nelson failed to stop her 2003 Dodge at a stop sign and crossed in front of Logsdon?s 1998 Chevrolet 1500...

Bolivar, Missouri woman killed when car crosses center line

Posted on September 12, 2008
Catherine Welch, 24, was killed and four others were injured Friday in a two car accident on County Road 363 just south of Nemo, Missouri. Welch was driving north in a 2004 Chevrolet with Brian Hawthorne, 25, when another car crossed the center line in front of Welch...

Accident near Missouri - Kansas border leaves one dead and two injured

Posted on September 10, 2008
One person is dead and two others are seriously injured after a pickup crashed into a Camaro Wednesday on Highway 59 just a mile from the Missouri ? Kansas border. According the Highway Patrol, Danny Groshong, 18, was traveling westbound on Highway 59 in a 1997 Chevrolet Camaro and attempted to pass another vehicle by moving to the eastbound lane...

Hulshof supported by big business, dismissive of severely injured

Posted on September 09, 2008
A story released in the St. Louis Post Dispatch outlined the sources of campaign contributions to the candidates in Missouri?s race for governor. As expected, Republican Kenny Hulshof is supported by big business and large pharmaceutical companies, while Democrat Jay Nixon is seeing a lot of support from the legal community...

New Madrid County crash injures 4 Missouri women

Posted on September 08, 2008
Four people were injured Monday in a two-car crash on Highway 25 just south of Malden, Missouri. According the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when Sara Blake, 17, pulled her 2001 Ford Taurus into the path of a 2006 Chevrolet Impala, driven by Jannie Beasley, 60...

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