Richmond Personal Injury Blog

A teenager in Norfolk, Virginia, died while riding a scooter across the street near his home. Witnesses say that the boy was attempting to cross the street around eight in the evening. A driver who was reportedly moving well in excess of the posted speed limit on the street hit the teen, and the teen was later pronounced dead on the scene.

There were no indications that alcohol was involved in the accident. No one has stated whether or not distracted driving was a factor. Area residents, however, expressed their anger at the city and the local police for not enforcing the posted speed limit. They say that speeders are common on their street, so a serious accident was probably only a matter of time.

Going to a movie theater can be a great family activity on the weekend or as a weeknight treat. However, the occurrence of injuries in movie theaters is in fact a reality for many. In 2008, 1,570 people in the United States had to take time off work in order to recover from injuries that resulted from a trip to the movie theater.

If you have been injured in a Virginia movie theater, it is important that you take the time to consider whether the accident that occurred could have been reasonably prevented by the movie theater in question. If there was a hazard that could have or should have been fixed, for example, and your injury occurred as a result of this hazard, you may be able to make a legal claim against the premises manager and/or owner for the damages that you suffered.

You walk into a store to purchase a few important items. However, today's trip is far from ordinary. Instead of racing through the store, you find yourself lying on the floor in pain following a slip-and-fall accident.

If the business property owner did not properly maintain the area where you injured yourself, you have the right to seek to hold him or her accountable for your slip-and-fall injuries. Here is a look at common indoor conditions in Virginia that result in slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall accident injuries.

When you are involved in an accident, law enforcement officers at the scene are very likely to conduct Breathalyzer tests on drivers immediately after the accident. This generally is not an accusation of intoxication; however, it is important that all drivers do adhere to the request, because a Breathalyzer test refusal is often interpreted as an admission of guilt.

Breathalyzer tests are so widely used because of their practicality and their size. Courts have deemed them to be "reasonably accurate" and therefore, a valid way to measure a person's blood alcohol concentration (BAC). However, one of the main criticisms of Breathalyzer tests is that they can occasionally give false positive results after a car accident, and this can potentially lead to a person being unfairly charged with causing an accident.