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• Drunk Driver Causes Deadly Accident in Tacoma

  Ryan Nute | December 29, 2007 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  On Christmas Eve Peter Pung, 18, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Pung was driving on Golden Given Road East, a road in Tacoma, Washington, when a pickup blew through a stop sign and T-boned Pung's Honda. The driver of the pickup, Aaaron Wayne Bell, 26, crashed into Pung's car with such speed it drove the Honda's passenger-side door into Pung and crushed him against the driver's side...

• Passengers Injured in Sumner Crash

  Chelsea Gilbert | December 28, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  On Christmas Eve a 35-year old man was killed and two men were critically injured in a car crash on West Valley Highway in Sumner, Washington. According to the police, the driver was speeding, lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and then hit a tree. The driver was declared dead at the scene of the accident; the two passengers were transported to Harborview Medical Center. Alcohol was...

• Opportunity Cost Key Factor in Assessing Personal Injury Damages

  Michael Myers | December 21, 2007 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  Personal injury cases are typically valued--by insurance adjusters, personal injury attorneys and juries--based on medical expenses. Oftentimes lost wages and, to a greater extent, opportunity cost, take a back seat. Should people who get hurt in accidents be compensated for the opportunities they miss because of someone else's negligence? On Monday, Brian Ebersole, former state legislator,...

• Deadly Crash on I-5 Highlights Important Issue for Injured Workers

  Michael Myers | December 17, 2007 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  I was looking through my email and found an alert from KIRO. It described an accident that happened on Friday involving a DOT truck. During the morning commute last Friday an SUV slammed into a Department of Transportation worker's truck on Interstate 5 in Fife. The collision killed the SUV driver, Roy P. Fuentes, and injured the 56-year-old State worker, David Ball. Ball was outside of...

• Two Planes Collide Over Washington

  Jenny Albano | November 20, 2007 9:36 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  On Tuesday, November 20, two planes collided in mid-air over Washington. One of the planes landed safely at an airstrip nearby and the other plane crashed into Commencement Bay.An officer from the Coast guard claimed that two people who crashed in the water were recovered by boaters, but their condition was not immediately known.The other plane did not crash, but landed at the Thun Field in...

• Freight Train Derails and Falls into River

  Jenny Albano | November 10, 2007 3:32 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  A CSX freight train derailed on a bridge above the Anacostia River on Friday, November 9 and 10 of the 90 rail cars fell into the water. There were no injuries due to the accident.The train was parked with no passengers or crew aboard when another freight train ran into it. The Fire Department stated that the cause was unknown and that the National Transportation Safety Board would be...

• Passenger Killed in High-Speed Crash in Tacoma

  Ryan Nute | November 02, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  Two men were killed early Sunday morning in a car crash on Tacoma's East Side. The driver, Godwin Adeniyi, 23, lost control of the car after going through the intersection of East 96th and A streets, crashing the car into a tree.Adeniyi was transported to a hospital, where he died shortly after arriving. The passenger, Juan Arce Jr., 21, died at the scene of the accident. Arce was a private...

• Statute of Limitations May Run Soon for Windstorm Property Damage Claims

  Ryan Nute | November 01, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  Many of you experienced damage to your houses during the wind storms last year. The majority of the losses occurred on December 14 or 15, 2006. Generally homeowners' insurance policies in Washington have a one year statute of limitations: that is, any claims against the homeowner's carrier must be brought within one year of the incident. Failure to bring a claim in time means it might be...

• Man charged with Hit-And-Run In Moped Incident

  Chelsea Gilbert | October 29, 2007 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  An Olalla man who allegedly ran over a boy's arm with his pickup truck is being charged with a hit-and-run. In July, Brian Hayes, 33, was driving up the hill exiting a trailer park as two boys on a moped were also driving up the hill. When the road narrowed the moped driver, 17, applied the brakes, causing both of the moped riders to be thrown off. Hayes allegedly ran over one of the boy's...

• Metro bus driver involved in fatal accident fired, may be prosecuted for negligent driving

  Ryan Nute | October 26, 2007 11:09 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  Sandie Olosky, 35, the Metro bus driver involved in the head-on collision in April that killed a man, will be fired by Metro.The accident occurred on Highway 164 when Olosky failed to slow with traffic and then swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of her. The bus hit the bumper of the vehicle in front of her and then collided with a truck driven by Michael...