Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur when you receive damage to your brain from an external force. An example would be when there is sudden speeding up and slowing down, such as in a car crash or fall, your brain can move around violently inside the skull, resulting in injury; this is known as a closed [...]
When you walk into a lawyer’s office, the last thing you want to hear is legalese. You want to know the facts of your case in plain English. Unfortunately, that won’t stop the insurance companies and their lawyers from using them to leverage information or put you in a situation that gives them the upper [...]
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Our kids are back in school. Please observe all traffic laws and be on the lookout for those kids streaming in and out of buses and walking to school
A 44-year-old woman has been injured in a pedestrian accident that occurred in Kansas City on Saturday. According to police officials, the hearing impaired woman was walking across the street with her husband when she was struck by a southbound van. It was raining at the time and the woman was walking next to parked [...]
A Kansas City man was struck and killed in a pedestrian accident last week while walking to work. The 54-year-old man was walking to Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley where he worked to turn education material into usable formats for disabled students. The accident occurred at Main and 31st Street, and area the man walked daily. [...]
Kansas City Police are currently investigating a hit-and-run pedestrian accident that occurred last week. According to witnesses, a van was driving erratically on the roadway and swerving in and out of the lanes of traffic when it jumped the curb and struck a 19-year-old man that was walking on the sidewalk. Witnesses believe that the [...]
Kansas City police are still investigating a pedestrian accident, but have determined that there as no foul play. The woman was struck by at least six different vehicles as she tried to cross Interstate 29. The 25-year-old Topeka woman attempted to cross the highway at 4:15 a.m. and she walked into the path of a [...]
A man that has been suspected of hitting a pedestrian was located and arrested by police officials two days after the incident. According to state patrol, the man was arrested on U.S. Highway 40 after the community and a database helped to narrow down the vehicle and they eventually found the correct one that was [...]
A man from Ellis, Kansas was killed in a pedestrian accident on Interstate 135. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the 32-year-old man was standing in the middle of the roadway when he was struck by a semi-truck that was pulling two trailers. Investigators believe that the man was in the car with four other [...]
