InjuryBoard Charlotte Archives

• Pedestrian Hit by Semi-Truck in Nevada

  Shannon Weidemann | October 08, 2007 3:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A pedestrian was killed in Nevada after being hit by a semi-truck. The trucking accident happened on Friday evening on Highway 395. The victim was a 41-year-old woman. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, she was walking on Pine Valley Road about 5:30 p.m. when she ran toward a Schneider Trucking Freightliner.The woman was thrown underneath the rear tires and crushed to death. It is...

• Drunk Driver Kills Man in Rowan County

  Shannon Weidemann | October 06, 2007 5:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A drunk driver hit another car and killed a man and injured a child. The car accident happened in Rowan County on Thursday night. He was driving on Interstate 85 going in the wrong direction at the time of the accident. Troopers say he got onto Interstate 85 at Lane Street in Cabarrus County around 11:30 p.m. Thursday and went the wrong direction. A vehicle going the correct direction...

• Woman Awarded $2.4 Million for Sponge

  Shannon Weidemann | October 04, 2007 10:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A woman underwent a c-section and the doctor performing the operation left a surgical sponge inside her body. The sponge was not discovered until two weeks later and now the woman cannot have any more children. She sued her doctor and the hospital for medical malpractice. A jury awarded the woman $2.4 Million after finding them negligent. The woman was in and out of the hospital following...