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A 19-year-old male driver who reportedly had been drinking at the time of a car crash has been sent to prison for a term of five to ten years because his 17-year-old male passenger died in the accident. The driver borrowed the car from his friend's house and the two embarked on a drive that ended with the vehicle flipping over after leaving the road.
A 26-year-old male bicycle rider was struck and killed recently in Chicago after moving there from New Hampshire to work at Groupon.com, a daily deals Internet website. The man was described as an enthusiastic bicycle rider who traveled to and from work daily on his bicycle regardless of weather conditions. He liked to fish and reportedly missed the more rural environment of New Hampshire. Bicycle riders are frequently injured or killed in car accidents.
Fellow employees at Groupon were devastated by the man's death, and all described him as well liked and as an outgoing person with a sense of humor. He worked in the company writing clever descriptions for the website's daily discount deals. He was designated the employee of the month shortly after beginning to work for the company. Police stated that they were currently questioning the 26-year-old male driver of a car believed to have hit the bicycle rider. The motorist did remain at the scene of the accident after it occurred.
A man who was thrown off of a horse-drawn wagon he was driving while at the Applecrest Farm Orchards in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, is suing the apple orchard. He asserts the owners were responsible for his injuries for failure to adequately maintain the wagon. When the wagon broke down, the Belgian draft horses pulling it were startled and bolted. Liability can be imposed upon a negligent property owner when their action or inaction causes injuries to others.
Also injured in the accident was a female horse owner who tried to intervene and bring the runaway horses to a halt. At the time, the injured man was giving wagon rides to some of the orchard customers and visitors.
A $1.3 million class action settlement has been reached between Six Flags Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park in Queensbury, New York, and a class of approximately 600 guests who got extremely ill there from a stomach virus characterized as virulent. The incident occurred approximately five years ago. The lawsuit contended that the park's owners were responsible for the guests' distress because of property conditions on the premises.
Guests there at the time suffered horrible bouts of diarrhea and uncontrollable vomiting. It was the type of thing, the plaintiffs' lawyers argued, that is normally caused by a norovirus, occurring as a result of fecal contamination of either water or food. Such contamination, they further contended, would not take place in the absence of unsafe or unsanitary conditions n the premises.
College athletes bring honor, glory and money to their schools by competing on the playing field in sports such as football, where the possibility of serious injury is always present. Shockingly, the National Collegiate Athletics Association does not require that its member schools provide injured athletes, even those with very serious spinal cord injuries, with medical assistance of any kind. Giving medical assistance is entirely discretionary.
College athletes are responsible for their own medical insurance, and all there is for sure to assist them is an NCAA fund for catastrophic injury, which never comes into play until after a player's deductibles are greater than $90,000. In some instances, football coaches have revoked scholarships from players too injured to return to play that season, cutting players off in some cases from university healthcare services that they are dependent on following a major injury.
A motorist has been sentenced to two and a half years of incarceration after operating his SUV while intoxicated and ramming it into a bench in a public park where a 71-year-old man was sleeping. The crash happened in Massachusetts, but police asserted that the motorist drove away after the accident, fleeing into New Hampshire. As with many car accidents caused by drunken motorists, an innocent person suffered; the elderly sleeping man lost a finger as well as suffering other injuries.
The 66-year-old male motorist ultimately pled guilty in court to driving while intoxicated in a manner that caused bodily injury. In addition to being sentenced to incarceration, his driving privileges were taken away for two years, and when he does drive, he will have to use an alcohol screening device that will prevent him from operating his vehicle while intoxicated.
A 19-year-old man from Deerfield, New Hampshire, seemingly acted with no regard for his passengers as he crashed the vehicle in which they were riding and then fled the scene. Police did manage to catch up with the negligent driver and placed him under arrest for his actions that spurred the car accident.
Late one night, local police spotted the man driving his vehicle erratically. An officer followed the man along Liberty Hill Road and attempted to pull him over as they approached the intersection with Meetinghouse Road. Instead of pulling over to the side of the road, the man took off at a high rate of speed. He did not get too far as he eventually crashed the vehicle into a telephone pole.
Police determined that both alcohol and speed were factors in a recent car accident that played out in Claremont, New Hampshire. The wreck, which occurred on Main Street during the late hours one night, claimed the life of an out-of-state woman. A 13-year-old boy that was also riding in the woman's vehicle during the crash sustained serious injuries. He was treated at a local hospital and then released.
Based on police reports, a pickup truck was heading east on Main Street when the driver allowed his vehicle to cross over the double yellow road lines and into the path of oncoming traffic. This is where the pickup collided head-on with a minivan at around midnight. The local police chief said he believed the pickup truck was speeding before colliding with the minivan. He did not offer any evidence indicating why authorities also believed alcohol was involved.
Two young women were seriously injured following a recent car accident in Epping, New Hampshire. Fortunately for the women, local fire departments were engaging in a training exercise not far from the crash scene, so there was no shortage of emergency personnel to respond to the crash.
The ordeal played out at around 10:12 a.m. one morning. While an investigation is still pending, local authorities said they believed that a 23-year--old woman from Epping, who was driving a 2010 Toyota Corolla west on Route 87, may have failed to yield properly. This might have been what triggered the collision between the woman's Corolla and a 2010 Mazda 6, driven by a 26--year--old woman from Nottingham.
Some might suggest that the ailing economy has left aging men and women to remain in the workforce instead of retiring. The reality is that these professionals just do not have the money to gracefully walk into retirement. They still need the income that accompanies gainful employment.
This is no different in construction jobs or similar industries that are rife with hazards and always present the risk of workplace injury. In fact, within the construction industry, the average age per worker was 41.5 years old in 2010 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey. This average was five years higher than the average in 1985.
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