Posted on December 7,2009 at 12:45 pm
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A new study released by the Quality Planning Corporationshows that students, doctors, and lawyers are the groups most frequentlyinvolved in car accidents.
Quality Planning, a California firm that works withinsurance companies found that students were more frequently involved in caraccidents than anyone else. Doctors topped the list for professionals that aremost frequently involved in crashes. Lawyers came in second and architectsthird. Real estate agents came in fourth.
Tim Cox, a spokesman for Quality Planning Corp., said thatlack of experience would account for the large amount of student crashes. Thereport showed that for every 1,000 students there are about 152 car accidentsand 87 speeding tickets per year. For doctors there were 109 car crashes and 44speeding tickets per 1,000. For lawyers, 106 car accidents and 37 speedingtickets.
The other professions in the top ten were enlisted militarypersonnel, social workers, manual laborers, analysts, engineers andconsultants.
If you or someone you know has been injured in a New Yorkcar accident, please contact a New York personal injury attorney of Orlow,Orlow & Orlow by calling 718-544-4100.
Posted on at 12:30 pm
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Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife say theyescaped injury in a three-vehicle accident on a New York City highway.
The legendary newsman said that they narrowly avoidedserious injury in a crash that resulted in the death of a 30 year-old woman andinjured the driver of a mail truck on Friday afternoon. Police say a 1998 FordExpedition lost control and overturned, colliding with a mail truck.
Accordin to Brokaw, the mail truck then smashed into hisvehicle. The 69 year-old and his wife Meredith said in a statement that theywere “greatly saddened by the loss of life.”
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Posted on at 12:24 pm
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Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of the rock band Weezer, wasinjured in an accident on the New York State Thruway on Monday.
The indie rock superstar was enroute to Boston following aSaturday night concert at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. The band’s tour bus lostcontrol after it reportedly hit a patch of ice on the highway and struck aguide rail. The bus then slid off the road and into a ditch.
Lead singer Rivers Cuomo and assistant to the band, SarahKim, were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. Cuomo’s wife and2 year-old daughter were also onboard, however the two walked away from theaccident unscathed.
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Posted on November 30,2009 at 1:24 pm
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A three car accident on Route 32 resulted in two injuredpeople and two totaled vehicles.
Officers from the Cairo Police Department responded to theaccident shortly before 2:30 p.m. Police say a white Honda CR-V flipped over onto it’s roof and struck agray Subaru Forester on the driver’s side and a green Hyundai near the fronttire on the passenger side.
The three vehicles were traveling northbound on Route 32when the accident occurred. The names of the people involved have not beenreleased.
Two peopole, however, were transported to the Albany MedicalCenter. One suffered a possible hip injury and the other may have sustained ahead injury.
If you or someone you know has been injured in an New YorkCity car accident, please contact a New York Personal Injury Attorney of OrlowOrlow & Orlow by calling 718-544-4100.
