Imagine you’re walking through a department store when you slip and fall on a piece of clothing that was blocking your path. As it turns out, the clothing had been there all day, but the store employees and management never did anything to move it out of the pathway of customers. If you seriously hurt […]
Sport utility vehicles (SUV) remain popular with drivers, but overloading an SUV and/or not insisting that all riders are securely belted into their seats can be quite dangerous. On Monday, Sept. 4, nine residents of Bayonne, New Jersey, suffered serious injuries in a collision involving their SUV on I-78 in Upper Macungie Township in Lehigh County. Police […]
Trains are obviously extremely dangerous. Commuters rarely think that their train is going to crash, but train accidents are not unusual occurrences. Even when trains without passengers collide, it is not uncommon for serious, even fatal, injuries to occur. Local Philadelphia Train Accident CNBC reports a tragic local Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train crash. Several […]
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, nearly 37,000 people sought emergency medical treatment between 2003 and 2012 after being injured by adult portable bedrails, and 155 died. Most of these accidents occurred in private homes or in nursing facilities. The Food and Drug Administration is also well aware of the issue. Since 1985, the […]