There is an inverse relationship between a truck driver shortage and the number of truck accidents. Currently, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), there is a national shortage of around 60,000 truck drivers. This shortage is also experienced here in Tennessee. Although it’s hard to prove directly that a shortage of drivers causes more [...]
The PenAir plane that crashed at Dutch Harbor airport, Unalaska, in Alaska’s offshore Aleutian Islands last Thursday, is now under investigation by a team from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The plane has already been recovered from near the sea where it landed after over shooting the Dutch Harbor airstrip landing, injuring 11 of [...]
The CEO of America’s largest and most profitable e-cigarette company, Juul, has resigned, as the numbers of people dying from vaping continue to rise. Kevin Burns, the Juul CEO, has apologized for the rise of vaping related illness which may be related to the use of his former company’s products. According to figures from the [...]
Purdue Pharma, one of the largest of the opioid manufacturers that has been struggling with massive multi litigation lawsuits, has filed for bankruptcy in a controversial agreement to settle the claim against it, worth 10 billion dollars. Purdue claims that by going bankrupt, it allows the company to release its assets to help opioid victims. [...]
You have been hit by someone else somewhere in or around Nashville. You know that the other driver was at fault. You know that normally if you were injured you should be able to sue the driver for negligence and recover financial compensation. But what happens if the at-fault driver didn’t own the vehicle and [...]
An investigation is underway in Michigan after an unusual amphibious plane nosedived into a popular lake. Fortunately for the two occupants, Tennesseean Tyrone Finch and his passenger, Patrick Jarman, from Deerfield, MI, they escaped the wreck of their plane with the help of people in a nearby boat and deputies from the local Sheriff’s office. [...]
Aviation accidents have been much in the news this last year, mainly because of high profile media attention on U.S. owned Boeing Corporation after the two crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people. Despite the publicity, flying is still a lot safer than driving, or even using [...]
The injuries caused by sudden turbulence on Air Canada flight AC 33 between Vancouver and Sydney shows that aviation accidents are not always about crashes. Turbulence is a common phenomenon on long haul flights and airline staff are expected to give as much warning as possible to passengers and crew about the dangers involved if [...]
84 year old Hermitage resident, Dorothy Stockard, died when a small plane crash landed in a wheat field south of Kankakee in Illinois last Friday (July 5th). The other two occupants of the Beechcraft A36 Bonanza single engine aircraft, the pilot, Raymond Jakubiak and the other passenger, his wife, Wrenne Jakubiak, both from Naperville, IL, [...]
Electric powered scooters have caused huge consternation for city authorities wherever they have popped up. Seven e-scooter companies in Nashville have now been told that they cannot operate, following the first death of a scooter rider in the city. The decision has proved controversial, and it may only be temporary. Mayor Briley says that a [...]