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News and information on dangerous drugs, wrongful death, nursing home abuse, car accidents, and workplace accidents in Washington state.
By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

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Driver charged with leaving scene of fatal crash

Posted on April 01, 2008
An Auburn man, 22, was arrested today after he allegedly fled the scene of a four-vehicle collision. A 50-year-old woman was killed in the collision, and at least five other people were injured in the auto accident. The man was driving on A Street Southeast in Auburn when he was involved in a verbal exchange with the male passenger in another car in the next lane...

Tacoma man dies after being hit by 2 separate vehicles

Posted on March 25, 2008
Two separate vehicles hit and killed a 48-year-old man early Sunday morning in a Tacoma intersection. Both vehicles fled the scene after the auto accident and police are looking for the drivers. Residents near the intersection of 38th and Fawcett say they've seen many bad accidents here...

$1.25M Awarded In Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on March 24, 2008
A jury in Tennessee awarded the family of a young mother more than $1 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Ginger Williams, 34 and suffering from end-stage renal disease, died one day after doctors released her from the emergency room at Maury Regional Hospital...

Metro bus crash sends 12 to hospitals

Posted on March 21, 2008
Approximately a dozen bus riders were taken to area hospitals after a Metro bus accident on Pacific Highway South on Wednesday. Afternoon traffic was snarled near the Kent-Des Moines interchange. There did not appear to be any critical injuries suffered in the Seattle Auto Accident that occurred shortly before 2 p...

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Train ? semi truck collision in Marysville

Posted on March 19, 2008
A train and semi-truck collided in Marysville early Monday. Minor injuries occurred when the train derailed. At approximately 6 a.m., the Seattle truck accident occurred around 130th and State streets. The driver of the semi-truck suffered some minor injuries, said Marysville Fire Department Battalion Chief Scott Goodale...

Extra patrols in King County to target drunken drivers

Posted on March 17, 2008
The streets of King County will see some extra patrol cars in search of drunken drivers this weekend. X-52, which is the nickname of the State Patrol-sponsored program, is part of a statewide effort to catch and stop people from drinking and driving...

Woman fired for her military service files lawsuit

Posted on March 14, 2008
A Kirkland woman, Kelly Hansen, claims she lost her job as chaplain at Children?s Hospital in Seattle because of her years of service as a National Guard chaplain. She was required to drill for a weekend and take time off work. "The first day she came back to work after her drill weekend she was called into her supervisor's office and terminated," said James Beck, her lawyer...

Man with destroyed heart gets record $40 million awarded by jury

Posted on March 12, 2008
$40.1 million was awarded by a Snohomish County Superior Court jury to a man whose heart was ruined by a malfunctioning machine during an operation at an Everett hospital. Lawyers stated that the jury award is the largest in county history and thought to be one of the state's largest personal injury verdicts...

Light sentence received in crosswalk death accident sends questionable message

Posted on March 10, 2008
According to Komotv.com, many Seattleites were outraged when a municipal court judge ordered fines, no driving, and community service for a driver found guilty of hitting and killing a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Ephraim Schwartz will have his conviction erased from his record in two years, if he avoids driving and completes the community service...

Justice sought by mother in daughter's murder

Posted on March 04, 2008
A man who was just released from a Massachusetts prison killed Beverly and Brian Mauck. Daniel Tavares had been let out after serving time for killing his mother. Now Beverly?s mother says she owes it to her murdered daughter and son-in-law to change the state law...

Marysville man killed by vehicle while crossing street

Posted on March 03, 2008
The death of an elderly Marysville man who was hit by a car while crossing the street on Saturday morning is being investigated by police. According to Marysville police Lt. Jeff Goldman, the Washington auto accident occurred around 5:20 a.m. in the 9600 block of State Avenue, in Marysville...

5 injured in crash on I-5 in Lynnwood

Posted on February 28, 2008
A rollover crash on I-5 Tuesday left five young people injured. They were apparently fleeing a hit-and-run accident, said Washington State Patrol trooper Kirk Rudeen. According to troopers, the 17-year-old driver hit an occupied pickup truck in Lynn�wood and was speeding away northbound in the carpool lane on I-5 e when his SUV rolled near I-40...

10-year old boy hurt in crash on U.S. Highway 2

Posted on February 27, 2008
A collision on U.S. Highway 2 about seven miles west of Stevens Pass left a 10-year-old Marysville boy seriously injured. The Washington Auto accident occurred on Saturday morning. After the accident, the boy was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center...

Man hit by bus in Lynnwood

Posted on February 26, 2008
A Community Transit bus hit and seriously injured a man in Lynnwood, officials said. The Seattle Auto Accident occurred late Wednesday. The as yet unidentified man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Lynnwood police spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said...

Lawsuit by family of man who died in Tacoma gas explosion

Posted on February 25, 2008
The family of Charles McDonald, a truck driver who died when a propane hose leaked and caught fire while he pumped propane from his truck into Atlas Foundry Limited Partnerships tanks, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in superior court Tuesday. They allege that Atlas Foundry employees didn't use proper clamps when they helped McDonald reattach a disconnected hose before he began pumping the propane...

Sexual attack inside Children's Hospital alleged in lawsuit

Posted on February 20, 2008
A teenaged patient at Children?s Hospital in Seattle says she was sexually assaulted by another patient. According to the lawsuit, the alleged sexual assault happened while both the victim and her attacker were patients in the psych ward. In August, 2006, a teenage girl was admitted as a patient to the psychiatric unit at Children's Hospital, suffering from depression...

MySpace page of car crash victim subpoenaed in lawsuit

Posted on February 19, 2008
Marissa Schneider was terribly injured in the Seattle car crash that wasn?t her fault. Her family sued both the driver and Chrysler, the makers of her car, with allegations that her injuries were, in part, to a design flaw in her Dodge Spirit. But now the lawyers for the Chrysler Company have issued a subpoena for a court order to get inside her MySpace page and see her personal blogs, and her family wants to know why...

Former court worker paid by Snohomish County to settle lawsuit

Posted on February 14, 2008
$85,000 has been paid by Snohomish County to a former court worker after she agreed not to file a civil lawsuit alleging that her demotion was retaliation for cooperation with a 2005 state investigation of a judge. Sherree Marler, who had worked for that court for 26 years, filed a claim against the county, saying that her employment was "terminated" without notice in retaliation for her testimony before the state Judicial Conduct Commission...

Yellow license plate would be required for DUI drivers, under proposed WA bill

Posted on February 12, 2008
Drunk drivers in Washington State may soon have their own fluorescent yellow license plate. Republican state senator Mike Carrell is sponsoring a bill that would require a person convicted of DUI to drive a vehicle with front and rear fluorescent yellow license plates...

Serious crash on I-5 Southbound in south Everett

Posted on February 11, 2008
Southbound traffic on I-5 in south Everett was blocked Friday morning by a serious Washington Bus Collision which left a man critically injured a man, said officials. The crash happened at about 6:30am, near the Silver Lake rest area. A 30-year-old Everett man swerved his car into the carpool lane and was hit by a King County Metro Transit bus, said Kirk Rudeen, a Washington State Patrol spokesman...

Elderly pedestrian hit and killed by car

Posted on February 07, 2008
A 94-year-old Shoreline woman died Wednesday when she was hit by a car while crossing a street in an intersection in North Seattle/Shoreline, according to the State Patrol. State Patrol reported that the woman, Ruby Blood, died in the Seattle pedestrian accident when a car making a left turn from Northeast 145th Street onto 15th Avenue Northeast hit her at about 11:15 a...

Woman killed in auto accident Eastside

Posted on February 05, 2008
According to the Washington State Patrol, the driver of an SUV, traveling on Washington State Route 202 between Redmond and Fall City, died last week after her vehicle left the road and rolled into a ditch filled with water. Troopers believe the Washington auto accident occurred around 12:10 p...

Smoker?s award upheld by court

Posted on February 04, 2008
For the third time, the Oregon Supreme Court has allowed a $79.5 million punitive-damages judgment against Philip Morris. This award was twice struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which suggested it was excessive. Jesse Williams was a longtime Malboro smoker...

Two bills related to drunken driving set to be presented today

Posted on January 31, 2008
All first-time drunken-driving offenders must install an alcohol-detecting interlock device in their cars in order to can get their licenses back, under Washington State Auto law. But, State Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, wants to change that laws, because offenders often drive illegally for months or even a year or more without a valid license or the device, and that goes into effect only when drunken-driving offenders reapply for licenses...

Hit and run leaves Kingston man dead.

Posted on January 28, 2008
A man was found dead near the Kingston ferry landing on a dark rural road. Though no vehicle was in sight, he was surrounded by broken glass. The man is believed to be 85 years old and a resident of the area. He was apparently out for a walk when the pedestrian accident happened, at approximately 6pm...

Head-on crash on Kent-area highway results in death

Posted on January 27, 2008
According to the Washington State patrol, a head-on auto accident collision this morning on Benson Highway near Kent resulted in the death of a Seattle man. Trooper Jeff Merrill reported that the Washington auto accident happened in the 23400 block of State Route 515 in South King County...

Collision between street racer and truck on Highway 167

Posted on January 24, 2008
On Monday night, a 22-year-old Kent man was taken to the hospital after crashing into a truck while street racing at extremely high speeds along Washington Highway 167. According to the state patrol, the injuries suffered in the Washington Auto Accident were life threatening...

Storm Drains Pose Danger to Cyclists

Posted on January 17, 2008
A cyclist who was injured in a Seattle bicycling accident near the Washington Park Arboretum claims he knows what caused the 2004 crash: his bike tire got stuck in a drainage grate with slots parallel to the roadway. According to an estimate by Seattle Public Utilities officials, there are between 70,000 and 80,000 grates throughout the city...

Passing train hits Stanwood man

Posted on January 08, 2008
On Monday, a man who was crossing railroad tracks near downtown Stanwood was hit by a fast-moving train. Just before 9:30a.m., an Amtrak train struck the man. He suffered life-threatening injuries in the Seattle Pedestrian Accident and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle by helicopter...

Driver arrested in fatal wrong way car accident

Posted on January 08, 2008
A man from Federal Way was arrested early Sunday after driving the wrong way on SR 18 east of the Auburn Black Diamond Road, hitting another vehicle head-on, and killing the driver involved in the Washington Auto Accident. According to Washington State Patrol troopers, the man was driving a Honda Accord eastbound in the westbound lanes at about 4:38 a...

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