Busy intersections can be a hotbed for motor vehicle accidents. Safety is dependent on everyone being patient, attentive, and obedient to traffic rules. Even if you are an extremely careful driver, you can still suffer a severe injury due to the negligence of other...
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Three taken to hospital after collision on Wisconsin 57
A car wreck in Brussels, Wisconsin, that occurred on March 9 left three people with injuries that required medical attention in a hospital. Early reports suggest that the car accident happened when the 19-year-old driver of a Ford Winstar failed to yield the right of...
2 injured, 1 dead in Afton Bridge accident
On Mar. 3, two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision on the Afton Bridge in Janesville. In the aftermath, the 55-year-old driver of one vehicle was taken to a local hospital while the driver of the other vehicle, whose information was not released, died at the...
Family of victim involved in rental car accident may be entitled to additional
A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this month may make it possible for victims of car accidents to obtain under their insurance policies if damages exceed the maximum amount that rental car companies can be required to pay. This ruling stems from an...
Drunk driver will spend two years in jail after fatal crash
Earlier this month, a sentence was handed down against a 28-year-old Wisconsin man who was driving under the influence and caused a car accident in Wheaton in June 2010. The crash resulted in the death of the man's 26-year-old passenger. Two others were seriously...
Injured in a hit-and-run accident? Your options may be limited.
Simply having the liability insurance mandated by the state of Wisconsin is not enough to protect cautious drivers in some circumstances. When a negligent driver flees the scene of an accident he or she caused, the cost of medical bills and auto repairs or replacement...
Milwaukee man charged with OWI in 5-car accident
A five-car crash that left at least one person injured was due to drunk driving, according to Wauwatosa police. The car accident occurred on Mayfair Road when a 45-year-old man from Milwaukee was allegedly speeding with a blood alcohol content of 0.15, nearly twice...
Serious crash results in Wisconsin woman’s death
Two car crashes in two days in Anoka resulted in death for one Wisconsin victim. The second accident occurred when the Wisconsin resident attempted to make a U-turn in the middle of the road. She drove directly into the path of an SUV driven by a teenage girl,...
A decade in prison for texting while driving
A Wisconsin man convicted of causing a fatal accident is looking at 10 years in prison, possibly the toughest sentence ever handed out for texting while driving. The 23 year-old was convicted 2nd degree reckless homicide for causing a December, 2012 crash that killed...
A mother’s neglect ruins four lives
One of the things that children learn in middle school science is the physics of moving objects. They learn that objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Those same laws pertain to cars. If the vehicle you're riding in stops...