Car Accidents

Posted on Sep 25, 2013 Massachusetts State Police are investigating the death of a Pennsylvania teenager who was killed in a car accident this past Monday.  The police say the 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman was struck and killed by a car in Cambridge. The woman was struck by a car driven by a 38-year-old Chelsea man at […]

The reason is because the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the state Insurance Department want to remind motorists to contact PennDOT if they change their vehicle insurance provider.  As vehicle owners – not insurance providers – they are responsible for reporting new policy information to the department. “People may assume that when they start a […]

A single vehicle car accident this past Saturday on Interstate 81 in Franklin County killed a Shippensburg man and injured his mother.  State police at Chambersburg barracks said Vincent Patrick McNerney, of Shippensburg, was driving a 2003 GMC Envoy on I-81 south at 7:35 p.m. Saturday when the vehicle hit a guide rail and flipped over the embankment. […]

In State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Donegal Mut. Ins. Co., XXX Crawford Co. L. J. 52 (2013) the trial court in the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County issued an opinion and Order in dispute between insurers regarding pro rata share obligation for underinsured motorist (UIM) payment. In this case, the injured victim/insured resided […]

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 A Waynesboro man was injured in a two-vehicle crash on Tomstown Road, according to state police.  Police said Whitney A. Freeman, Waynesboro, was existing an alley onto Tomstown Road near Mentzer Gap Road at 5:40 p.m. last Friday when she turned into the path of Clarence W. Lucas, Waynesboro. Lucas […]

Related Links: Seven Steps to a Recovery After a Harrisburg Auto Accident When someone has been hurt in a Pennsylvania auto accident, financial responsibility for medical care falls to the insurance companies. Because of the complex way Pennsylvania has implemented no-fault auto insurance, each driver’s insurance carrier will be the primary source of compensation for […]

A hit and run driver has left two people injured after the car accident in the drive-thru line at the Shippensburg McDonald’s.  Officials said an SUV hit the back of a car shortly before 10 p.m. last night. After the crash, they said the driver of the SUV backed up and hit the drive-thru window […]

Posted on Sep 06, 2013 The Shamokin News Item is reporting that three people were injured yesterday after a sedan pulled into the path of an oncoming handicapped van at Routes 61 and 487. Trooper Wendy Keefer, of the Stonington station, said Andrea Beers, of Paxinos, was attempting to turn left from Route 61 onto Route […]

Should Pennsylvania mandate insurance coverage for damage caused by sinkholes? A few weeks ago, a section of Route 30 in Central Pa. was closed due to a sinkhole.  In March 2013 an entire house fell into a huge sinkhole in a suburb of Tampa, Florida, garnering national attention. Although such large, sudden and destructive sinkholes […]

A New Jersey state appeals court rendered a ruling yesterday which means “Don’t text a driver — or you could be held liable if he or she causes a crash.” According to the lawsuit, Kyle Best was behind the wheel of his pickup in September 2009 driving down a rural highway, when Shannon Colonna sent him […]