Automobile Accidents

Automobile accidents cause thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries every year and carry the potential for both criminal and civil liability. They fall into several categories, including head-on collisions, side collisions, rear-end collisions, rollovers, single-car accidents, suicides, pile-ups, and level crossing accidents. The state is likely to prosecute if someone is severely injured or killed or if one or both of the drivers was intoxicated at the time of the accident. On the other hand, automobile accident personal injury lawsuits are the most common type of tort. Most often, the court is limited to determining who was at fault and how much in damages must be paid to the victim.

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Accident data to be released; A court says U.S. can't withhold information related to car crashes.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government may not withhold key data on serious car accidents from the public.

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Pa. high court OKs forced drugging of mentally ill death-row inmates

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