A New Jersey man pleaded guilty last week to fleeing the scene of a Tom's River car accident that the left a 17-year-old boy severely injured. The driver, a criminal defense attorney from Brick, said that he was reading text messages or emails at the time of the New...
Yes, he was wearing a helmet, as required by New Jersey law, when the motorcycle accident occurred. But that didn't save the driver from sustaining severe head trauma after colliding with a left-turning minivan and being thrown from his bike. The motorcycle driver was...
"Brain Injury - Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone," is the theme of this year's Brain Injury Awareness Month. Through increased awareness of the seriousness of traumatic brain injuries, the Brain Injury Association hopes to prevent at least some of the 52,000 fatalities and...
As many as two children, mainly those two-years-old and younger, per week are fatally injured in a back-up motor vehicle accident. An additional 48 are injured. Despite these statistics, the Department of Transportation has decided to once again delay mandating all...
A 47-year-old driver left the scene of a Palisades Park car accident only to be found a few blocks away by local police. He had crashed his own car into a utility pole. Police found the Honda still running and the driver's side door open when they arrived on the...
One of three triplet sisters was killed in a New Jersey truck accident when a dump truck collided with a school bus full of elementary school children, sending the bus crashing into a traffic-light pole. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the...
The driver of a RAV4 rear-ended a Mercedes, sending the Mercedes into a nearby Suzuki on Route 31 in western New Jersey. The three-car rear-end crash set off each vehicles airbags and sent all three drivers to the hospital with injuries. The driver of the RAV4 was...
Thirty-two drivers under 21 were killed in New Jersey car accidents last year. In an attempt to further protect teen drivers from themselves as well as protect others on the roads from the mistakes of novice drivers, the New Jersey legislature passed a bill requiring...
A head-on two-car accident in Elmwood Park sent one car onto the nearby train tracks and both drivers to the hospital, complaining of neck injuries. Witnesses reported seeing smoke coming from the engines of each car. One Good Samaritan who tried to help the drivers...
Herman Chandler, of Jersey City, caused a two-car fatal car accident that killed a passenger in the other car and a pedestrian on the sidewalk. In a black GMC Envoy, Chandler was high on drugs and speeding through Jersey City when he slammed into the back of a taxi,...
