Posted on February 23rd, 2010
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with driving while intoxicated after a fatal single-car accident Sunday.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, Shekh Khan was traveling south on Crystal Brook Hollow Road, in a 2000 Audi, shortly before 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the vehicle struck a pole. The 20 year-old passenger, Natalie Juarez, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
Two other passengers in the vehicle, a 24 year-old man and a 20 year-old woman, were transported to Stony Brook University Hospital Medical Center for treatment.
The 24 year-old Khan is under police guard at the hospital pending his release for arraignment.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a Pennsylvania car accident, please contact a Philadelphia personal injury lawyer of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-329-3511.
Posted on February 16th, 2010
A teenage boy was killed in an early morning truck accident Saturday.
The accident occurred shortly before 1:00 a.m. on Friday when Frank Branan was traveling west on Route 156 in South Bend Township. Brenan was attempting to navigate a trun onto Craig Run Road, when he was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck driven by Robert Gilette.
Gilette was not injured in the crash. Branan, however, and three pasengers sustained minor injuries. 15 year-old Justin Boyer was transported via helicopter to UMPC Presbyterian in critical condition. He was pronounced dead fifteen hours later.
According to the state trooper on the scene, Chris Lassen, the truck driver did not see that the vehicle in front of him had slowed to take the turn. Lassen said “Irregardless [sic] of what Mr. Gilette stated to the state trooper, there is no excuse for driving without paying full attention to the road… Tractor trailers are essentially lethal weapons on the road, and truck drivers should have a heightened duty to leave a safe driving distance between their trucks and vehicles in front of them.”
If you or a loved one has been injured in a Pennsylvania car crash, please contact a Philadelphia personal injury lawyer of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-329-3511.
Posted on February 16th, 2010
An annual report by the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety has ranked Pennsylvania among the ten worst states for driving safety legislation.
The alliance of consumer, health, safety and insurance groups’ seventh annual report finds Pennsylvania seriously lacking legislation for teen drivers. Of the 15 overall laws that the group believes are essential to reducing death and injuries on the nations highways, Pennsylvania has enacted only 6.5. The group recommends that Pennsylvania beef up legislation in the following areas: restrictions on the number of passengers a teen driver can have in a vehicle, nighttime driving restrictions, cell phone and text messaging restrictions, and regulations for unrestricted licenses.
The young driver laws in Pennsylvania have not been updated since 1999 according to the Department of Transportation.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said of the study “As a community, we have to recognize and accept the fact that teenagers are generally poor drivers, both in their ability to maneuver vehicles as well as their personal judgment… We don’t have to take these risks. There are some basic things we can do as a community, both individually as parents and things the Legislature can do to enhance safety on the roadway by addressing the weaknesses of teenage drivers.”
If you or a loved one has been injured in a Pennsylvania car crash, please contact a Philadelphia personal injury lawyer of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-329-3511.
Posted on September 1st, 2009
On Sunday, the iron railing on a fire escape broke away from the building at 16th St and Spruce St. As a result, two people fell four stories to the ground in front of the local business, Monk’s Cafe. The 16 apartment building had no previous problems of this type.
A 25 year old man died in the fall. A woman who fell with him was rushed to the hospital after the accident for treatment. She was released from the hospital on Monday. The city does not have any record of the condition of the building where the accident occurred.
If you have lost a loved one to an accident, contact the Pennsylvania wrongful death lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.
Posted on August 10th, 2009
On Saturday morning, a plane and a helicopter crashed over the Hudson River. The helicopter contained a New Jersey pilot and five Italian tourists while the private airplane held three Pennsylvania residents. All nine were killed in the accident.
The wreckage has been extracted from the river along with seven of the bodies. However, the remaining two bodies are still unaccounted for. Crews are searching the river while an investigation continues into the crash.
If a loved one has been taken from you in a tragic accident such as this, contact the Pennsylvania wrongful death lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.
