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July 16, 2010 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith was injured in a motorcycle crash and treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Perry was struck from behind on his 2009 Ducati Monster 696 Thursday, by a 62 year old woman according to reports. Perry’s son Tony wrote on his Twitter page that he found out his dad was ok and home after being rear ended on his motorcycle. According to the Twitter report Perry’s other son Aaron was also on the motorcycle, but was not injured. According to the police both Perry and the 62 year old woman were traveling at slow speeds prior to the motorcycle accident , and the woman was cited with following the motorcycle too closely. Perry a Massachusetts native according to reports sustained minor injuries in the crash and is said to still be able to tour with Aerosmith in their upcoming United States summer tour. The scheduled tour dates will be the first set of tours the band is doing, since lead singer Steven Tyler fell of a stage braking his shoulder.

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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry Injured in Motorcycle Crash

An Illinois trucking accident that occurred on July 15th on I-57 in Southern Illinois resulted in the death of two truck drivers. The truck crash involved a total of seven vehicles, including four semi-trucks, a Jeep and two pickup trucks. According to The Pantagraph , Illinois State Police have reason to believe that the accident was related to a slow-down in traffic due to construction in the area. Two of the semi-truck drivers were killed as a result of the personal injuries they suffered in the accident, one other person involved was airlifted to a local hospital, and one other person involved had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Other people were also involved in the crash but did not have to go to the hospital because any injuries they had were minor enough to leave untreated or were able to be treated at the scene. Following the accident, several fires started because of the semi-trucks that were involved in the trucking accident . The local firefighters had to be called and it took awhile to get all the flames under control, and there were even explosions resulting from the accident. The Hazmat team also had to be called to the scene, because two of the semi-trucks were carrying loads of hazardous material that spilled onto the road at the time the trucking accident occurred. Given the immensity of the accident and the commotion it created, the entire section, all lanes in this section of the road way, of the I-57 were shut down for around 57 hours. To read more about this disastrous trucking accident , please click on this link.

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Seven Vehicle Trucking Crash Kills Two

A Novato man was sentenced to 24 years in prison to life for causing a fatal driving accident in 2009.  The accident killed a nine-year-old girl and left her father seriously injured. Read entire article

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Novato Man Sentenced in Fatal Drunk Driving Accident That Killed Nine-year-old Girl

This week, Toyota admitted that its investigation had revealed problems with sticky gas pedals and floor mats responsible for the sudden and unintended acceleration that has plagued the company over the past year.  It is the first time that the automaker has admitted that there was indeed a problem in its cars, that has caused these accidents. The unintended acceleration has been traced to more than 80 deaths. Read entire article

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Toyota Admits Sticky Gas Pedals, Floor Mats Responsible for Sudden Acceleration

A trucking accident lawsuit has been settled and the mother of the victim of the accident will receive a settlement of $5 million dollars in connection with the wrongful death lawsuit. The trucking accident that is the reason for the lawsuit allegedly occurred when the trucker driver, who suffered from diabetes, failed to test his blood sugar and blacked out while driving his truck and crashed into the young victim’s truck, killing her and one other young man. The truck driver previously had pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter in the criminal case involving this accident, but the lawsuit currently being settled is the civil wrongful death lawsuit that the family of the victim filed against the trucking company that owned the truck the driver was driving and that employed the driver. The family of the victim wanted the trucking company to have some accountability for their drivers, however initially the trucking company refused to support legislation to make companies held more responsible for their driver’s mistakes, but have since been able to come to an agreement somewhere in the middle. The company agreed to pay the victim’s family $5 million dollars as well as have the settlement recorded as a judgment rather that a confidential settlement. The reason that this is an added plus to the victim’s family is that the judgment is public record and any other family of a victim from an trucking crash involving the same company would be able to look up the settlement and it paves the way for that family having an easier time reaching a settlement. This added plus, aside from the money, was important to the victim’s family because they wanted the company to take some responsibility for what happened and wanted to help make sure that other families did not have to go through what they went through to put the awful tragedy behind them. To read more about this trucking lawsuit settlement , please click on this hyperlink.

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Trucking Accident Lawsuit Forces Trucking Company to Show Some Accountability

Auto safety is a major buzzword these days, since numerous auto recalls have left millions of consumers worried about the vehicles. Automakers have been involved in efforts to develop smarter safety technologies that can not only reduce the risk of injuries in an accident, but can also prevent the accident from happening in the first place. Read entire article

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Intel Working on Smart Safety Technologies for Cars

Two teenagers from Ojai were injured when their van crashed into a tractor-trailer last week. The accident occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway north of Ventura. The two teenagers were traveling in a van when a tractor-trailer that was stopped on the shoulder, suddenly pulled onto the highway. The van struck the truck, and the two teenagers inside sustained moderate injuries. Read entire article

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Ojai Teenagers Injured in Truck Accident

Last year, I wrote about a horrifying trucking accident that happened in Oklahoma, just over the border from Missouri, last summer. A tractor-trailer driver failed to slow or stop for stalled traffic on the interstate and plowed into a line of cars at 71 mph, killing ten people and injuring at least three more. The driver, 76-year-old Donald Creed, of Willard, Mo., did not appear to slow down or swerve as he approached the stopped cars. Creed was charged with ten counts of misdemeanor negligent homicide , and The Oklahoman reported at the end of June that a plea agreement may be near . Three families of victims who died in the crash have filed a lawsuit to be heard in September, and two of the injured have filed their own lawsuits as well. As a Missouri semi trailer crash attorney , I hope that these legal processes will help the families to heal, even though their lives can never be the same. Neither side will discuss the terms of the plea agreement, including whether Creed could face any jail time, but Creed’s attorney said that discussions with the Ottawa County district attorney are going well. The cause of the crash also remains unclear. Investigators found no mechanical problems, visual obstructions or intoxication that could explain the crash. But The Oklahoman suggests that driver inattention and exhaustion could have contributed to it. Creed had finished a 22-minute phone call just eight minutes before the crash, and he had also been working since 3 a.m. The crash happened at about 1 p.m., and the heat on the road was extreme, measuring between 110 and 115 degrees. Creed told investigators after the crash that he didn’t know what had happened, and he thought that the cars he ran over had driven under his truck on their own. It took three to five hours to rescue those who were injured and killed, as traffic stood still for seven hours, backed up for three miles. Highway patrol spokesman Lt. George Brown said it was the worst traffic accident he had ever responded to, and that he couldn’t remember one with a higher death toll. As a Missouri big rig accident lawyer , I will be especially interested to learn about the progress of the lawsuits filed by the victims and their families. Creed has retired in the wake of the accident, which could make some observers wonder how the victims will get any compensation, even if they win. But as a southern Illinois 18-wheeler accident attorney , I know that in a claim like this, any financial compensation typically comes from the driver’s insurance company, if any, and the employer’s insurance company. In fact, the chance of a serious accident like this is one of the main reasons that drivers and businesses carry liability insurance. The law holds negligent truck drivers and their employers responsible for harm that they cause, and unfortunately, so many preventable accidents occur that liability insurance is a must.

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Trucker for Kansas City Company Nears Plea Agreement for Horrific Oklahoma Crash

GlaxoSmithKline received a major setback to its anti-type II diabetes drug Avandia this week. A researcher at the Food and Drug Administration released a scathing report that had strong criticism for a major clinical trial the company has been conducting into Avandia benefits. Read entire article

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FDA Review Criticizes Avandia Trial for Downplaying Reports of Injuries

A trucking accident occurred earlier today in which a semi-truck crashed into the side of a Metra train at the extremely accident-prone intersection of Nagle and Avondale. This exact intersection has been the location of five train accidents over the course of four years and has been named one of the most accident prone intersections in northeast Illinois. The cause of the accident, according to Chicago Breaking News , was that the semi was struck in traffic passing through the intersection and when the truck driver realized the train was coming he was unable to move forward and was also unable to back up because of the traffic behind him. Luckily, no one suffered any serious injuries as a result of this train-truck accident. To read more about this Illinois trucking crash , please click on this link. Interestingly enough, this specific intersection had just been named one of the most dangerous in Illinois, and the article was published shortly before this accident occurred. Chicago Breaking News , earlier this morning and prior to the accident, posted an article discussing the most dangerous railroad stops in Illinois and specifically discussed how dangerous the Nagle and Avondale crossing had become. The main reason that many believe this intersection is so accident prone is that traffic is often stopped, waiting for a light next to the intersection to change to green, in the middle of the tracks. While this seems like an obvious danger and not something drivers would subject themselves to, many drivers are found waiting on the tracks all the time. A better system for traffic in this area, or at least stronger deterrents against waiting in the intersection, are not only greatly needed but would hopefully prevent more of these types of truck crashes in the future.

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Fifth Accident at Same Metra Crossing