By Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton, Eastern Shore Car Crash Victim’s Attorney

Normally safe and quiet Chincoteague Road through the town of Wattsvile on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (VA) was the scene of two major traffic accidents on May 15, 2012. In the afternoon, a car rear-ended a Head Start school bus that had already let off all the students it had been transporting. That crash sent both the at-fault driver and the school bus operator to the hospital with injuries.

Earlier, a fatal head-on collision occurred near where Chincoteague Road intersects with Lankford Highway/Route 13. police reported that a woman behind the wheel of a Geo Prizm crossed the center line and ran into the path of a Toyota SUV. The driver of the Geo died in the hospital from injuries suffered in the accident, and the woman driving the SUV sustained major, but not life-threatening, injuries.

View a larger map of where a Geo Prizm collided with a Toyota SUV near Route 13 on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Police continue investigating both wrecks, and it is unclear why either occurred. What is obvious, though, is that each illustrates how dangers exist on every road. Any time a driver speeds, becomes distracted, ignores stop signals or loses control of his or her vehicle, others can suffer injuries or even lose their lives.

As personal injury attorneys based in Virginia Beach, we have helped many victims of Eastern Shore crashes. If you or a loved one has been hurt through the negligence or  inattention of someone else, read this free report to learn about your options for receiving compensation for accident-related medical costs, lost wages and other damages.

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton, School Bus Accident Attorneys in Virginia

A woman is facing a charge of following too closely after allegedly causing a rear-end collision with a Head Start program school bus on Chincoteague Road in Accomack County, Virginia (VA).

The accident occurred at the intersection with Fleming Road in the town of Wattsville at around 3:30 pm on May 15, 2012. Police said no children were on the bus when the wreck happened, but the force of the impact was enough to injure both the at-fault driver and the woman driving the bus. Both people were taken to hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

View a larger map of where a car driver rear-ended a Head Start bus in Accomack County, sending the bus driver to the hospital with injuries.

It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief when learning that “only” adults were hurt in the crash between a car and a school bus. Giving into that temptation would be wrong.

As Virginia personal injury attorneys who have helped numerous victims of rear-end collisions, we know these types of accidents can leave people facing lifetimes of pain, medical treatments and disability. Tailgating, speeding, becoming distracted while driving and failing to heed traffic signals such as red lights and stop signs put everyone at risk.

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Richard N. Shapiro, Virginia Motorcycle Injury Attorney

The Eastern Shore of Virginia is a great place to ride a motorcycle, but it is also heavily traveled by tractor-trailers. Find out what happened to motorcyclists when they where forced off the road by a careless trucker.

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Emily Mapp Brannon, Personal Injury Attorney

Light rail trains can provide all the safety equipment possible, but they’re truly only as safe as the drivers they’re surrounded by. An impaired driver rear-ended a car, pushing it onto the tracks of a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina (NC). To learn more, visit “Jeep Pushes Car Onto Charlotte Light Rail Track, Injuring 6.”

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Emily Brannon, Virginia (VA) Car Accident Injury Attorney

As soon as someone hears emergency vehicle sirens they start looking in their rear view mirror and then ahead trying to discern what direction EMT’s are coming from.  But what happens if you are injured in a car accident either directly or indirectly by a police officer?  Find out more as our attorneys explore what happens when a police officer is caught driving under the influence.

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Randy Appleton, Car Accident Injury Attorney in Virginia Beach

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed requiring all motor vehicle manufactures to install brake-throttle override systems in all new cars, trucks, SUVs and buses. The agency is responding to a recent spate of stuck and entrapped accelerator pedal problems. To learn more about NHTSA’s proposal, visit “Stopping Runaway Vehicles the Aim of New Federal Auto Safety Rule.”

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

A car accident attorney with the Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton law firm recently wrote about a hit-and-run car accident in Virginia that killed one person and injured at least one other. To learn more read Man Killed in Hit-and-Run Accident in Melfa Virginia.

About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They, along with fellow attorney Randy Appleton, have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Emily Mapp Brannon, Carolina Accident Victim’s Attorney

Construction zones can be dangerous when drivers fail to slow down. A sad reminder of this came when a Cameron, North Carolina, man lost his life in a chain-reaction crash on NC 211 where road work was being done. To learn more about this accident, visit “Chain-Reaction Crash Near Tarrytown, NC Kills Pickup Truck Driver.”

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Jim Lewis, Distracted Driving Accident Injury Attorney in Virginia

Life Before Text, an application written Android smartphones, blocks calls and texts to phones inside moving vehicles. The app costs $3.98 per download and is being marketed directly to parents who can install it on their teenagers’ cell phones.

Designer Troy Orner told television station WQOW that he designed Life Before Text with his own 8-year-old triplets in mind.  “There’s so many distractions and meaningless deaths on the road caused by people texting,” he said.

Life Before Text sends an email alert to a designated recipient if someone disables the app. Better, if the app is deleted, an email goes an insurance agent who may have been giving the teen a discount for having the app installed. The application is available for Android phones, and costs $3.98.

Texting while driving has become an epidemic on American roads, and teenagers are among of the worst offenders. Having grown up with technology all around them, teens forget that they shouldn’t be multitasking behind the wheel. That multitasking, combined with inexperience, puts everyone’s health and lives at risk.

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.

By Emily Mapp Brannon, Car Accident Attorney in Virginia

Few things are more reprehensible than causing a hit-and-run accident. Such a crash in Richmond landed a scooter rider in the hospital with serious injuries. To learn more about the incident, visit “Richmond, VA Hit-and-Run Injures One.”

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About the Editors: Lawyers with Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have provided legal advice and representation for thousands of car, truck, motorcycle, and ATV accident victims, including many on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. We are familiar with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and with the towns along Route 13, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteague, Wachapreague, Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island. Check out our case results to see for yourself. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. They have also been named Virginia Super Lawyers since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of outstanding attorneys receive.