The economic costs of fall injuries for people over 65 total $50 billion a year. These injuries also involve noneconomic losses which are almost incalculable. How does one put a price tag on something like emotional distress or pain and suffering? Such losses are...
Hart County Wreck Kills One Person
Few details were available after a motorist apparently collided with a semi-truck. The accident happened on a remote stretch of northbound Interstate 65 not far from Munfordville. The victim, who was driving the passenger car, was a 28-year-old man from Bowling Green....
Dual Fatal Wreck at Bardstown Intersection
Few details were available after a motorist apparently cut off another vehicle. The crash killed two people. The wreck happened near the corner of New Shepherdsville Road and Deatsville Road. According to Trooper Scotty Sharp, a Bardstown man was northbound on New...
Top Five Brain injury Causes
Traumatic Brain Injuries affect over 1.5 million Americans every year. Yet despite better understanding of the nature of these injuries, doctors do not treat most of these victims. As a result, their injuries quickly get worse. Initial symptoms, like disorientation...
Drunk Driver Kills Special Education Teacher
Charges are pending after an allegedly intoxicated motorist ran a car off the road, killing a Wellington Elementary School instructor and her 21-year-old daughter. The woman and her daughter were coming back from western Kentucky, where they had assisted tornado...
Five Dos and Don’ts Following a Car Crash in Lexington
Car wrecks kill or seriously injure millions of Americans every year. These victims have a hard time recovering from these injuries, physically, financially, emotionally, and otherwise. Compensation is available for these serious injuries. Unfortunately, many victims...
Man Dies Following Shootout at Local Restaurant
Authorities believe that a shooting victim who was found at an apartment complex was shot at a Louisville Waffle House. Officers responding to a report of shots fired found a crime scene but no victim or perpetrator. Investigators located the victim at an apartment...
Dual Fatal Wreck in Newport
A teenager was one of two people killed in a rear-end crash that happened on an Interstate 75 exit ramp. The two people were passengers in the vehicle. The driver was airlifted to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. According to the family, the three people were...
Fatal Intersection Collision in Lexington
Emergency responders summoned the Fayette County Coroner to an accident scene in Lexington. A pickup driver, who rolled through a red light, claimed the sun’s glare prevented him from seeing a passenger car in the intersection of Victoria Way and Man’o War. His pickup...
Speeding SUV Strikes and Kills Pedestrian in Scott County
Few details were available after a SUV hit a 47-year-old man who was apparently crossing the street outside a crosswalk. The victim died at the scene. Representatives from several law enforcement agencies responded to the scene. They concluded that the driver was...
