The Charlotte Observer reports that a man was hit and killed by a freight train near uptown Charlotte around 6:40 p.m. last night. The man was walking along the tracks and did not get out of way of the train, even after the train sounded its warning horn and bell. The train applied its emergency…
WSOC-TV reports that two people were killed after the car they were riding in collided with a tractor-trailer last night. Four people were riding in a Honda going east on Kings Mountain Highway, when the driver tried to make a U-turn to head west. When the car entered the intersection, it was hit by a…
The Charlotte Observer reports that two bicyclists were seriously injured yesterday morning when they collided with a car in Waxhaw. The bicyclists were traveling northbound and the car was traveling southbound. According to police, the car made a left turn from Waxhaw-Marvin Road onto Exbury Gardens Drive right into the path of the bicyclists. The…
Earlier today, a man driving a horse-drawn buggy was hit by a tractor-trailer while traveling on Highway 601 in Union County. Although the buggy was demolished and its contents spread over the highway, the driver and the horses escaped the accident without serious injury. The buggy driver was sent to the hospital immediately after the…
“Never events” in surgery are so-termed because they are events for which there is general professional agreement that they should never happen. Surgical never events include leaving a foreign item (like a sponge or towel) inside a patient’s body after surgery, operating on the wrong body part, and operating on the wrong patient. A 2012…
In case you’ve missed the news, the first person to have contracted Ebola in the United States has been diagnosed. The new patient is a nurse who treated the hospital patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, in Dallas, Texas. Duncan contracted the virus in Liberia but did not show symptoms until after he arrived in the United…
We’ve talked about the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur before, in the medical malpractice context. However, North Carolina courts have also applied this doctrine in very limited circumstances to motor vehicle accidents. Typically, in an action seeking damages for injuries arising out of a car accident, a plaintiff must allege the elements of negligence: (1)…
WSOC-TV reports that a pedestrian woman was killed early this morning while crossing Brookshire Boulevard in northwest Charlotte. The woman was headed to catch a bus on her way to work when she crossed Brookshire Boulevard at the intersection of Hoskins Road. There is a traffic signal at that intersection, and the car that hit…