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AHHH...Cape Cod in the summer. Beaches, fried seafood, sun and surf ...and NO left hand turns! I was at a cocktail party over the weekend for a local charity in which I'm involved. One of the...

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As a parent, wouldn't you think your child was safe if he or she attended an overnight graduation related event on school grounds? Of course, you would have every right to believe that such an event...

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You would think the summer was already here. Every day, The Log in the Cape Cod Times lists three or four serious local car accidents involving everything from drunk drivers and cars crashing into...

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On Friday, March 28, a tanker exploded and shut down Interstate 91 in Chicopee. The driver of the tanker became badly burned after being trapped inside the truck during and after the explosion. Over a dozen drivers stopped their vehicles to try and free the man from the wreckage but were stopped by the flames.The driver was finally rescued and taken to a local hospital. The driver suffered...

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On Saturday night, a twelve year old boy sustained serious injuries in an accident involving an ATVin Harwich.For years, consumer groups have sought further regulation of these vehicles because of their weight, design flaws...and their propensity to cause serious injuries, including head injuries, in adolescent males. In the Harwich case, the Cape Cod Times reported that several witnesses fled...

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A crash that occurred last year was found to be caused by human error and failure to follow safety procedures by the National Transportation Safety Board. The collision of a commuter train and a maintenance truck took the lives of two track workers in Woburn.The crash occurred on Jan. 9, 2007, when the engineer of southbound Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Train 322 received a clear signal...

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Please see the blog on our Southeastern Massachusetts site about the new "Fake Bad Scale" now being used by insurance companies to defeat or diminish injured victims claims.

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See the entry on Cell Phones and Driving in my Southeastern Massachusetts blog.Bruce A. Bierhans

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An 18 year-old from Fall River was killed in a car accident on Saturday, February 9. Corey Leite was driving the car when he hit a tree and utility pole and was pronounced dead at Charlton Memorial Hospital at 10:39 P.M. One passenger in the 1983 Ford Mustang suffered minor injury, while two others were unhurt in the crash shortly after 10 p.m. The Mustang crashed through the fence of a...

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It's that time of year on Cape Cod. You're stopped at a red light and your car gets hit in the rear end by another vehicle.Your car has some damage, but it's minimal. You get out of the vehicle a bit stunned, but tell everyone you feel ok. Two days later, your lower back and/or neck hurt and you feel fatigued with a mild headache. Sound familiar?You likely have what is known in our profession as...

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently issued a very practical but controversial decision. The court held that the mother of a boy struck and killed by a car could sue the drivers doctor because the doctor failed to warn the driver of the risks associated with taking certain medications.This may appear harsh, but it is nothing more than a logical extension of the existing law of...

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A Cape Cod teenager was found guilty of causing the car accident that killed his best friend, in March 2006, and sentenced to 18 months in jail.The teen, 18, of Barnstable, was found guilty of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation following a bench trial. The judge ruled he was the cause of the accident that led to the death of his best friend, 16-year-old Melissa Gifford.He will serve...

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Massachusetts Firefighters, in Newton, responded to a horrible rollover car accident on Route 9 in the Chestnut Hill section of Newton on Wednesday.The assistant Fire Chief arrived on the scene and reported a two vehicle accident with a rollover. One car was traveling on either side of Route 9. A Volkswagen crashed with an SUV while traveling west on Route 9. The impact of the crash sent the...

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A head-on collision with a semi-truck claimed the life of a Massachusetts woman, Friday morning, on Interstate 80.A Plymouth was heading east on I-80 when the driver lost control of the vehicle, going through the center median and into the westbound lanes where it crashed head-on into the semi-truck, according to state police.The semi-tanker truck was transporting non-hazardous materials and...

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A 43-year-old man was killed in a three-car accident on Route 6 yesterday. According to public safety officials, the accident occurred when one driver veered into oncoming traffic.The man was driving south on Route 6, at 9 a.m., when his vehicle was hit head-on by a Toyota Tundra pickup, which had crossed the center lane. A third vehicle traveling south also struck the car from behind, police...

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