Posts tagged pedestrian

• Pedestrian killed by Metrobus in DC, Not an isolated incident

  Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...

• Why might a pedestrian not realize a garbage truck is backing?

  Steve Lombardi | October 31, 2009 2:08 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  When we receive real life examples of how personal injury accidents occur sometimes we post them as a Q&A. In this instance see how easily you can become victimized by injuries in which you had...

• Chicago Woman Pedestrian Struck by Distracted Driver

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2009 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  I love downtown Chicago. Over the past two years I've spent several weeks at the Guest Quarters and walked every morning to De Paul's conference center for classes. But really I've been following...

• D.C. Woman Pedestrian killed by Metrobus

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2009 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...

• Stop, Look and Listen – Hear that train a coming!

  Steve Lombardi | October 20, 2009 7:00 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One more train-car collision that killed three people; including a 2-year-old, a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old in Macomb, Mississippi. The children were two boys and a mother young woman was...

• Iowa Crash in Rural Mahaska County

  Steve Lombardi | September 21, 2009 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Early this morning at 5:30 in Mahaska County, a truck rolled over into a cornfield after missing a curve. The County Sheriff’s Office said alcohol may have been involved in the cause of the...

• What will it take in Iowa to stop distracted cell phone drivers?

  Steve Lombardi | September 04, 2009 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On August 8th 2009 16 yr. old Megan Davis died as a result of injuries suffered in a crash. She was traveling north on 180th Avenue in a 1988 Chevy S10 when for an unknown reason she lost control...

• Downtown Des Moines – DART Drivers 7, Pedestrians 0!

  Steve Lombardi | July 28, 2009 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  When I posted on July 24, 2009 about Des Moines bus drivers hitting pedestrians never did I anticipate that today we’d be once again discussing another bus-pedestrian collision in downtown Des...

• Just Another Day in Paradise for Downtown Pedestrians and DART Drivers

  Steve Lombardi | July 24, 2009 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Here we go again with another DART-pedestrian accident in downtown Des Moines. What is going on? On July 9th 2009 Veronica Lima of West Des Moines was dropped off on 9th and Walnut when DART bus...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Estimating speed of oncoming traffic

  Steve Lombardi | July 14, 2009 9:29 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Once again today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. As I previously stated, there are so many of them just since the first of the year. Today we’ll look...