Jersey City Personal Injury Law Blog

The worst nightmare of every parent of school age children in New Jersey may be that the child gets critically injured while in the care of others. This is particularly true of parents that send their kids on a school bus to and from classes. Entrusting the lives of their kids to the school district and the bus operator, parents rely on the fact that the bus operator will observe the rules of the road and exercise a reasonable duty of care to others in and near the roadway. They hope that the driver will guard children against personal injury. For one Burlington County family, the nightmare tragically came true when their 11-year-old triplets were all involved in a motor vehicle accident in Chesterfield.

The fatal crash occurred when the school bus operator was said to have run a stop sign at an intersection. A truck who had a yellow blinking traffic light proceeded into the intersection but did not stop in time to avoid a collision with the side of the bus. The impact of the collision forced the bus, which was transporting 25 students, to strike a metal pole. As a result, one triplet was killed and her sisters suffered critical injuries, as did another boy on the bus. Since the fatal collision, the two surviving triplets have been released from Cooper University Hospital in Camden; however, no further word on their condition was available.

When an employee is injured on the premises of their workplace and the injury arises out of the course of employment, they may be eligible to receive workers' compensation benefits. Furthermore, depending upon the nature of the employment, the premises of a workplace can vary wildly. They may range from an air-conditioned office to a tugboat in a harbor.

As some New Jersey readers may have heard, a tugboat recently capsized near Liberty Island on April 6. There were three crew members aboard the boat at the time; fortunately, it appears that only one was injured. At the moment, the US Coast Guard is investigating the accident. It appears that the tugboat was attempting to lift something using a crane, although, why this action caused it to capsize is not available.

It can sometimes be difficult to explain to authorities exactly what happened in a car wreck. Specifically, this may result in conflicting stories not only between the drivers, but the witnesses as well. For this reason, when someone is in a car accident, it is important to record details of the event as soon as possible.

That may have been a good idea for the individuals involved in a recent New Jersey car accident, which sent three people to local hospitals. The accident involved three cars. It appears that one car hit another, and it was subsequently hit by a third car from behind.

Did you know that in 2009, 5,474 people were killed across the United States in crashes involving distracted driving? Also, 448,000 were estimated to be injured in car accidents.

New Jersey residents are aware that distracted driving is a problem in the United States. In recent news, a physicist from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is working to scientifically address the problem. Because he has children of his own that are addicted to their electronic devices, for the sake of their safety, he decided to take an analytical approach.