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• Vehicle Crash Ratings Available Online

  Steve Lombardi | July 21, 2007 12:30 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Protect yourself and your right to recieve fair compensation.Car accidents cause a significant number of deaths each year. And although car-related fatalities have been decreasing in the last decade, it may not be due to safer driving. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the reason behind the decrease in car-related fatalities is improvements in vehicle safety...

• Fatal Collision Caused By Drunk Driver

  Steve Lombardi | July 20, 2007 5:00 AM | 9 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Darcy Schehr, a woman from Wisconsin, has been charged with "homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle." In a collision on Sunday, July 15, Schehr lost control of her vehicle on Highway 60, crossed the center line and hit a motorcycle. The motorcyclist, 40-year old Daniel Christ of Iowa City who was wearing a helmet, was killed. Schehr suffered no injuries.Important in any collision is a...

• Pedestrian Severely Injured After Being Hit by a Des Moines Bus

  Steve Lombardi | July 19, 2007 4:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  George Mogensen was walking along East Grand on Tuesday, July 17 when he crossed the street and was hit by a Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority bus. The driver of the bus, Gary Cozad of Indianola, was taken in for testing after the accident. There was no evidence of alcohol in Cozad's body and the results of a drug test have yet to be released. Charges have not been filed against...

• Two Accidents on I-29 Lead to Four Injuries

  Steve Lombardi | July 15, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Two accidents occurred within a half hour of each other north of Sloan on Highway I-29. The first accident involved a motorcycle traveling northbound with a small trailer that lost control and crashed into the center median. The two riders were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City to be treated for broken bones and other injuries. While officials were investigating this accident, the...

• Amusement Park Ride Leads to Rider's Death

  Steve Lombardi | July 14, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A woman in her 20's was pronounced dead after riding the Mind Scrambler ride at Playland Amusement Park in Rye, New York in Westchester County. The Mind Scrambler is an indoor ride that has cars that travel in a circular path while rotating. Emergency workers responded, but "there wasn't very much anybody could do for her," O'Leary said. The woman, who was in her 20s, was pronounced dead at the...

• Farming and Auger Accident in Wisconsin

  Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2007 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Injury by farming equipment has long been a source of making farming the most dangerous occupation. When considering the age of farm children who spend unmeasured hours toiling to do farm chores, it's not surprising when another is injured. Augers causing injury is something I'm quite familiar with having sued Beatrice the manufacturer of this type of equipment. In Dodgeville, Wisconsin in Iowa...

• Onychectomy (declawing)

  Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2007 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This is about Orly Degani and animal rights.Let me start by saying, to a degree I'm not against animal rights or the activists that try to advance those rights. The City of West Hollywood passed an ordinance that prohibits declawing of cats. Meow...., (West Hollywood Mun. Code, sec. 9.49.01.010(g) adopted Ordinance No. 03-656, adding chapter 9.49, entitled "Ban on Onychectomy (Declawing)"....

• Cyclist in Coma After Collision with a Car

  Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A car and bicycle collided on the east side of Des Moines on Saturday, May 12. The cyclist suffered broken bones, severe head injuries and went into surgery at a Des Moines hospital after the accident. The victim remains in a coma.The police are trying to identify the man who is Hispanic and in his 30s. His blood-alcohol level was four times the legal limit at the time of the accident. The...

• Cautious Motorcyclists Purchase More Insurance

  Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  With the recent increase in motorcycle sales, more insurance companies are providing motorcycle insurance. Some state laws only require motorcyclists to carry liability insurance, but some motorcyclists are becoming more cautious and want more coverage including fire and theft as well as collision insurance. This is partly due to the fact that there has recently been a large increase in...

• Smoke Detectors Essential to Fire Safety

  Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 8:53 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  More than 330,000 residential fires occur each year, causing about 2,700 deaths per year. Residential fires are the second leading cause of death in the home. Victims of residential fires most often die of smoke and toxic gas inhalation not burns. Installing smoke detectors properly can significantly reduce the risk of fire-related injury.There are two types of smoke detectors available for...