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As a Seattle pedestrian accident attorney, I know how vulnerable pedestrians are on our streets; this is particularly true of a pedestrian who is confined to a wheelchair.  KIROTV.com reports Tuesday morning a hit-and-run accident involving a wheelchair-bound pedestrian in the Interbay area of Seattle.  Douglas L. Lefever was struck by a vehicle as he crossed the street in his motorized wheel chair, and was thrown from the chair.  Mr. Lefever died after being transported to Harborview Medical Center.  A witness to the accident followed the vehicle that struck Mr. Lefever, and was able to provide a description of the vehicle and its license plate number to police, who found the vehicle and arrested the driver.

This tragedy could so easily have been avoided.  Every year, over 4000 pedestrians are killed in traffic accidents, with about sixty of those fatalities coming right here in Washington State according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  The bodies of cars and trucks, the seat belts, and air bags afford so much protection to the occupants in the event of a collision, but in a pedestrian collision, the pedestrian has essentially no protection.  The best protection a pedestrian has is his or her agility, and ability to jump out of the way of a car.  In this case, the wheelchair-bound victim did not even have that.

If you have lost a loved one in a Seattle pedestrian collision, contact Seattle pedestrian collision attorney Jason Epstein today.  Your mind is probably not on protecting your legal rights; mourning the unexpected loss of a family member is a terrible thing and it can be very difficult to focus on anything else.  However, it is important to speak with an experienced Seattle pedestrian collision attorney.  Jason Epstein is a compassionate, dedicated attorney who can not only protect your legal rights, but can deal with the financial issues that the loss of a family member can entail.  For more information and a FREE CONSULTATION, contact Jason at Premier Law Group at (206)285-1743.

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September 27, 2011 - According to reports a father, infant and toddler were injured at a Huntington Beach crosswalk by a motorist on Monday afternoon.

According to Huntington Beach Fire Department Deputy Fire Marshal Jeff Lopez, the accident occurred at approximately 4:30 p.m. at Central Park Drive and Edwards Street.

Huntington Beach Police Department Lt. Mike Reynolds said that investigators believe the man and two children were struck while in the crosswalk, by a motorist making a left hand turn onto the northbound lane of Edwards Street.

Lt. Reynolds stated the accident occurred at a four way stop, where the driver is believed not to have seen the pedestrians crossing from east to west on Edwards Street.

The father was holding a one year old at the time they were struck and a three year old was on a tricycle, Lt. Reynolds said. The father and one year old rolled over the hood of the vehicle sustaining minor injuries, including bruises.

The vehicle reached the top of the tricycle injuring the three year old that was wearing a helmet at the time of the incident, according to Lt. Reynolds. Huntington Beach Police stated that a helicopter was placed on standby, but was later canceled. The father and two children were transported to UCI Medical Center by ambulance for treatment of their injuries.

According to Huntington Beach Police investigators the accident remains under investigation, including why the driver failed to see the man carrying the one year old infant and the three year old on the tricycle. 600 Anton Boulevard 11th Fl. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 USA +949.891.0357, is the Huntington Beach car accident attorney location of Ehline Law Firm PC and we like to discuss motor vehicle accident liability, duties and obligations.

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Here in the Bay area we are happy life in or close to cities, which are known for their ability to walk. Lists the site walk score, for example, recently on place in the most walkable cities in the country, and San Francisco in the second place and Oakland in tenth. This is certainly could lead that for celebration, not security to take into account, when you consider that it was a terrible year for the safety of pedestrians in San Francisco and that more than 550 pedestrian alone kills a year in California. A new account by local blog Oakland North one reason explains why the East Bay City not up to the hype on foot life: dangerous pedestrian crossing signals.

In contrast to most of the cities, the Oaklands crosswalks say not automatically to pedestrians "go", when the light turns green. Rather, pedestrians must press the button on the crosswalk to obtain permissions to the cross. Lauren McFall notes that this creates an inherent conflict between the California vehicle code rule, that "the driver of a vehicle right of way to a pedestrian crossing of the road in all marked crosswalk or all unmarked crosswalk at an intersection yield" and others saying that "no pedestrians will start to cross the road in the direction of the signal" when it says "don't walk" or "wait." By requiring pedestrians to push a button to the road cross, streets are not Oakland pedestrians that grant automatic way, such as those of the California vehicle code.

Fortunately, a simple solution to this problem is dangerous. Oakland could a¼Blicher of the display automatically a "walk" signal, when cars go just or right turn in a transform specific crosswalk adopt. In this way pedestrians must must not care about, whether they cross the road may based on regardless of whether they pressed the. This is an example of a simple solution to a dangerous problem for California streets.

If you agree to the need for this change, McFall invites someone to her in Oakland City Hall on 18 August the bicycle & pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting join.

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Ein jüngste Unfall dient als eine traurige Zeugnis über die Anfälligkeit der Fußgänger in Atlanta u-Bahn-Bereich und in ganz Georgien. Ein 19 Jahre alten Mädchen erlitt schwere Kopfverletzungen und ist in kritischem Zustand nach in einer Kreuzung von einem Lastwagen, die nicht, bevor Sie fortfahren, in den Zebrastreifen Berichten von den Cherokee County Sheriff's Office zufolge aufhören getroffen wird.

Viele Fußgänger davon ausgehen, dass sie ziemlich sicher sind, wenn sie eine markierte Zebrastreifen verwenden, zwar Zebrastreifen Unfälle eine häufige Ursache von Verkehrstoten. Wenn ein Fußgänger von einem Kraftfahrzeug die daraus resultierende geschlagen führt fast immer Kollision schweren Verletzungen.

Montlick and Associates, Rechtsanwälte, haben wir mehr als 27 Jahren Erfahrung zum Schutz der Rechte von Menschen, die verletzt Zebrastreifen Unfälle in Atlanta und in ganz Georgien hart Bekämpfung. Unser erfahrene Team von Anwälten ist verpflichtet, effektiv Unfallopfer darstellt, so dass finanziellen Ausgleichs werden, die sie benötigen wiederhergestellt können, um ihr Leben wieder aufzubauen und vorbei an ernsthaften Fußgängerzone Kollisionen verschieben.

Fußgänger müssen zusätzliche kümmert sich vor Kfz-Unfälle aufgrund des damit verbundenen hohen Sicherheitsanfälligkeit zu schützen. Es sind Maßnahmen, die getroffen werden können, um Kreuzungen für Fußgänger, einschließlich der Installation blinkende Lichter in der Plasterung ein Zebrastreifen sicherer machen, die weniger wahrscheinlich ignoriert oder verpasst von Treibern, die abgelenkt werden. Eine Reihe von Studien haben gezeigt, dass blinkende Lichter in der Plasterung Crosswalks montiert Verhalten ändert, was zu weniger Fußgängerzone Unfälle in Kreuzungen fahren. Leider ist diese Art von Zebrastreifen Sicherheitsmaßnahme noch nicht weit verbreitet, weil es teurer als standard weiß gestreifte Linien, ein Zebrastreifen abzugrenzen ist.

Eine Studie zeigte, dass Fahrer eher ihre Geschwindigkeit verringern waren, bei der Annäherung an eine Kreuzung mit blinkenden Lichtern in dem Bürgersteig und weniger Fahrzeuge die Kreuzung, übergeben während ein Fußgänger wartete überschreiten. Diese Faktoren zusammen genommen bieten einen Hinweis auf die Installation von mehr dieser Warnung-Systeme-Fußgängerzone Kollisionen mit Kraftfahrzeugen an Zebrastreifen, die das Potenzial haben verhindern könnte, besonders gefährlich werden.

Zebrastreifen Kreuzung Unfälle treten in der Regel durch Treiber Fahrlässigkeit. Ein Treiber kann von so etwas wie ein Handy, durch Drogen oder Alkohol beeinträchtigt oder Verfahren zu groß Geschwindigkeit in Zeit stoppen ablenken. Wenn ein Treiber nicht angemessenen kümmert um Verletzung, einer Fußgängerzone, einschließlich stoppen hinter einer Zebrastreifen-Linie zu verhindern, kann dieses Verhalten die Grundlage für die Haftung in eine persönliche Verletzung Klage sein.

Öffentlichen Ämtern können auch zu viele Fußgänger Unfälle beitragen, indem Sie auf Fussgängerstreifen und Schnittmengen offensichtliche und sichtbar zu machen. Diese mangelnde Sichtbarkeit für Annäherung an Autofahrer kann das Ergebnis der überwucherten Laub, schlecht konzipiert Kreuzungen oder fehlerhafte und defekte Ampel sein. Während diese nur ein paar Beispiele sind, ist der Punkt, dass manchmal Zebrastreifen Unfälle unzureichende Wartung oder des Versagens Sanierungsmaßnahmen Änderungen nach vorherige Fußgängerzone Unfällen führen.

Wenn Sie oder jemand, den Sie lieben schwer verletzt hat oder ein Mitglied der Familie in einem Zebrastreifen-Unfall, der erfahrene Zebrastreifen-Unfall, die Anwälte auf Montlick und Mitarbeiter möglicherweise in der Lage, Ihnen die Entschädigung zu suchen, die Sie verdienen und Wiederaufbau Ihres Lebens und vorankommen müssen getötet wurde.

Unsere erfahrenen Fußgänger Unfall-Anwälte in Georgien stehen den Kunden in ganz Georgien und im Südosten, einschließlich aber nicht beschränkt auf Albany, Athen, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Gainesville, Macon, Marietta, Rom, Roswell, Savannah, Smyrna, Valdosta, Warner Robins und alle kleineren Städten und ländlichen Gebieten in den Zustand zu helfen. Egal wo Sie sich befinden unserer Rechtsanwälte sind nur einen Telefonanruf entfernt, und wir kommen sogar zu Ihnen. Rufen Sie uns 24 Stunden pro Tag/7 Tage die Woche für Ihre kostenlose Beratung bei 1-800-LAW-NEED (1-800-529-6333). Sie können auch besuchen Sie uns online unter www.montlick.com und die Verwendung unserer freien Fall Auswertungsbogen oder 24-Stunden Live Online Chat.

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Pedestrians in Atlanta area of u-Bahn and very Georgia serves as a sad testimony about the vulnerability of a recent accident. A 19-year-old girl suffered serious head injuries and is in critical condition after an intersection of a truck is launched, not, before you stop in the crosswalk according to reports from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.

While many pedestrians assume that they are pretty sure if they use a marked crosswalk, pedestrian crossing accidents are a common cause of deaths. If a pedestrian by a motor vehicle which hit leads resulting from this collision almost always serious injuries.

We more than pedestrian crossing accidents in Atlanta and in very Georgia hard fight 27 years of experience to the protection of the rights of persons injured have Montlick and Associates, attorneys at law. Our experienced team of lawyers is to effectively accident victims is that they are the financial compensation they need can restored to rebuild their lives and move past serious pedestrian collisions.

Pedestrians need extra care to protect themselves from car accidents due to the high vulnerability associated. There are measures, taken the flashing lights in the soil can be intersections for pedestrians including the installation of a safe crosswalk, the less likely ignored or missed by drivers distracted. A number of studies have shown that in the pavement of crosswalks mounted behavior change flashing lights, what less pedestrian accidents in crossings drive. Unfortunately this type of crosswalk is still not widely used, security measure because it is more expensive than standard white striped lines, a pedestrian crossing between.

A study showed, vehicles by the intersection that drivers reduce their speed more when approaching a crossing with flashing lights in the pavement and less while a pedestrian waiting to cross. These factors taken together provide a note on installing more this warning, pedestrian systems could prevent collisions with motor vehicles at crosswalks, which have the potential to be particularly dangerous.

Crosswalk intersection accidents occur generally by driver negligence. A driver can be distracted by something as a mobile phone, affected by drugs or alcohol, or procedures too big to stop speed in time. If a driver inappropriate care of injury, a pedestrian area, including stop to prevent line behind a crosswalk, can this behavior be the basis for liability in a personal injury lawsuit.

Government entities can also too many pedestrian accidents contribute, by you crosswalks and intersections obvious and to make visible. This lack of visibility for approaching drivers are the result of the overgrown foliage, poorly designed crossings or faulty and defective traffic lights. While these are just a few examples, the point is that sometimes crosswalk accidents inadequate maintenance or failure remedial changes to previous pedestrian accidents lead.

If you or someone you love hard has violated or a member of the family has accident, the experienced pedestrian in a crosswalk accident, the lawyers on Montlick and staff may be able, you the compensation application, you earn and rebuild of your life and need to move forward were killed.

Our experienced pedestrian accident lawyers in Georgia are for customers in all Georgia and in the Southeast, including but not limited to Albany, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Gainesville, Macon, Marietta, Rome, Roswell, Savannah, Smyrna, Valdosta, helping Warner Robins and all the smaller towns and rural areas in the State. No matter where you are our lawyers are only a phone call away, and we come to you. Call the week us 24 hours a day/7 days for your free consultation at 1-800-LAW-NEED (1-800-529-6333). You can also visit us at www.montlick.com and use our free case evaluation form or 24-hour live online chat.

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March 29, 2011-loud reports two teenagers in a crosswalk Tuesday morning taken.

According to authorities the accident occurred a crosswalk outside the Azusa high school, at the junction of the Rockvale Avenue and baseline road.

The young people were hit by a female driver in a 1990 Nissan Maxima, which immediately stopped and waited for police to arrive at the scene of the crash.

Authorities, according to the woman not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, was when they made the two young people. They believe that the Sun would be a factor in the accident. But they will certainly need a personal injury lawyer, or possibly their parents.

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