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September 15, 2011, ERIE, PA — The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all truckers be banned from talking on the phone and/or texting while driving. The NTSB trucking safety recommendation was delivered at a hearing in Washington and appeared to have been prompted by a tragic trucking accident that was linked to truck driver cell phone use. The…

September 13, 2011, ERIE, PA — Earlier this week, I posted a copy of an e-mail I’d sent to my accountant after she’d written and asked about Pennsylvania’s new law which largely abolished joint and several liability. She’d wanted to know how I thought the change in Pennsylvania law would affect her. I told her it wouldn’t affect her (probably),…

September 10, 2011, ERIE, PA — You’ll see in our latest news update that WJET-1400 AM has decided to add the Erie injury lawyers (that’s us) to its Monday morning talk show lineup. Our Erie radio legal question call-in show starts this Monday at 9 a.m. Radio law is a first for us and we’re looking forward to it but…

September 5, 2011, Meadville, PA — State Police are looking for suspects who threw corn cobs from an I-79 overpass at passing cars in Hayfield Township. According to police, the windshield of a Ford Explorer was shattered and a KIA SUV was damaged in the incident, which occurred near 9:04 p.m. People with information about the incident are asked to…

September 2, 2011, ERIE, PA — Details are still sketchy, but there is breaking news about a car accident on Erie’s west side. According to early news reports, a Saturn Vue and a Mercury Mariner collided at the intersection of West 38th Street and Ellsworth Avenue near 6:30 a.m. this morning. The Erie car accident caused the Mariner to roll…

September 2, 2011, ERIE, PA — Pennsylvania State Troopers are continuing their investigation into a fatal I-90 hit-and-run truck accident that occurred August 20, 2010 and are encouraging anyone with information about the Pennsylvania truck accident, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, to call them and share it. The Pennsylvania Truck Accident As documented in earlier blog entries here…

August 31, 2011, WARREN COUNTY, PA — A Tidioute woman who was walking in the roadway in Triumph Township, Pennsylvania last Thursday died from injuries suffered in a Warren County pedestrian accident.* The woman, who had been walking in the 7200 block of Route 127 near 6 a.m. was struck by a 1999 Plymouth that was northbound on Route 127.…