- David Rowell | October 26, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsVanessa Zamano, 9, of Kerman, was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle collision southeast of Kerman. The girl's father, Francisco Zamano, wsa northbound on Henderson Road, with Vanessa and another child as passengers in his Plymouth Neon. According to police, Zamano failed to obey a stopsign at the intersection of Henderson Road and McMullin Grade. Martha Decenteno, traveling westbound on...
- David Rowell | October 25, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsJordan Kedwards, 17, of Clovis, was killed Tuesday in an ATV accident in Madera County. Kedwards was a passenger on an ATV driven by 24 year-old Bonnie Pendergast. Pendergast lost control of the vehicle and it overturned, killing Kedwards. Pendergast was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and charged with vehicular manslaughter.For more information on this subject, please refer to the...
- David Rowell | October 24, 2007 4:09 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsMost consumers are aware of the tidal wave of toys and other defective products containing excessive levels of lead that have been offered to American consumers lately. As noted in a recent reportRecently recalled toys from China include 675,000 Mattel Barbie accessories, 49,000 Disney Deluxe Winnie-the-Pooh play sets and about a million Fisher-Price character toys such as Elmo and Dora the...
- David Rowell | October 21, 2007 4:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA two-car motor vehicle collision in Pleasonton on Saturday resulted in the death of a 19 year-old girl, and the serious injury of two others. The auto accident occurred around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, on Foothill Road in Pleasonton. The 19 year-old driver of a Ford Mustang, southbound on Foothill Road, collided head-on with a Mercedes SUV traveling northbound. Laurel Williams, a passenger in the...
- David Rowell | October 21, 2007 7:19 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsPayless ShoeSource, Inc. has announced the recall of about 90,000 girls' boots, made in China, because of a risk of injury due to "slip and fall" accidents. The jeweled, "Hannah Montana" engraved boots have guitar-shapped zipper pulls, which can get caught on each other as the child walks, causing the child to trip. Payless has received reports of five instances of children tripping due to this...
- David Rowell | October 20, 2007 7:07 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsTyhler Carron and Nikko Landeros are students at Berthoud High School. The two boys, both 18, were on their school's wrestling team. On January 15 thery were on their way home in Carron's Isuzu Trooper, Carron was driving, when their vehicle got a flat tire. Carron pulled over to change the flat, and he and Landeros got out. They went to the back of the car and opened the rear doors to get the...
- David Rowell | October 19, 2007 8:51 PM |
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Wrongful DeathJodi Woods was a student at the University of Tennessee, studying to be a teacher. In June 2006 she felt so sick that she went to the Emergency Department at Community Hospital in Martin, Tennessee. She told the staff that she had a severe headache (she described it as "the worst in her life"), and had other symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection of tissue around the...
- David Rowell | October 18, 2007 5:31 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Robert Yusem slipped on ice in a parking lot in a Pennsylvania industrial park in 2000, and suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his elbow, arm and ankle. It's taken seven years, but a jury recently awarded Yusems and his wife $390,000 in damages based on a claim of premises liabilty. In his "slip and fall" lawsuit, Yusems argued that the defendant parking-lot owner carelessly...
- David Rowell | October 08, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsRobert Kolbeck, 65, of Palm Desert, California, was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on September 28, Kolbeck and his wife Carol, were morthbound on State Rout 247 near Victorville when Kolbeck apparently lost control of his vehicle. The motorcycle, a 2007 Harley Davidson Ultra, ran off the road and overturned. Kolbeck suffered major injuries and was airlifted to Palm Desert...
- David Rowell | October 07, 2007 1:00 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAbout ten days ago consumers saw Topps Meat Company of New Jersey recall almost 22 million poinds of frozen ground beef patties, the second-larges ground beef recall in U.S. history, followed by Topps closure late last week. That recall was followed by a small recall by Impero Food & Meats, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland. What was troubling about the Impero meat recall was that the same organism...
- David Rowell | October 07, 2007 7:01 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Consumer Products Safety Commission on Thursday may have hit a new high-water mark for defective and dangerous product recalls based on violation of the lead standard. On October 4 alone, the CPSC announced: the recall of about 150,000 bookmarks and journals that contain lead; the recall of almost 200,000 toy key chains containing high levels of lead; the recall of about 15,000 toy...
- David Rowell | October 06, 2007 1:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJesus Reyes of Fresno died Wednesday afternoon in a two-car automobile accident in Fresno County. Reyes was eastbound on Adams Avenue and failed to stop at the intersection with Cornelia Avenue. A Nissan pickup truck, southbound on Cornelia, struck Reyes' vehicle in the intersection. Reyes was ejected from his Ford Explorer and struck his head on a metal grapevine post. Reyes was declared dead...
- David Rowell | October 06, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsLast week, almost 22 million pounds of tainted ground beef, produced by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was recalled by the USDA, the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history. On Friday, the CDC announced that an E. coli outbreak in 8 states, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, was linked to Topps Brand Ground Beef. The recalled beef...
- David Rowell | October 05, 2007 1:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA deadly 4-car automobile accident on Highway 101 in Menlo Park resulted in the death of one person on Monday. In the first auto accident, a Ford Mustang collided with a Toyata Celica, blocking the northbound lanes. Immediately after the first collision, an Acura Integra and a Toyota Camry collided with the first vehicles. The driver of the Celica suffered major injuries and was pronounced dead...
- David Rowell | October 05, 2007 7:10 AM |
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Wrongful DeathThe family of Helen Edwards has filed a wrongful death lawsuit based on nursing home abuse againt Manor Care, a nursing and rehabilitation facility, following Ms. Edwards' death. Ms. Edwards was a resident of the facility for four weeks and, according to the family's attorney, during that time she developed an infected State IV pressure sore and other problems that led to her death. The...
- David Rowell | October 04, 2007 1:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsZhang Bailan, a 37-year-old resident of San Franciso, has been arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence following a fatal automobile accident on Highway 101 in San Franciso Monday morning. Bailan was southbound on Highway 101 when he veered from the driving lane onto the shoulder, where William Lemus and Rodolfo Armenpa were fixing a flat tire on Lemus'...
- David Rowell | October 04, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall of about 350,000 children's gardening tools and chairs due to a violation of the lead paint standard. The defective products, made in Taiwan, are imported and sold nationwide by Taget, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to CSPC's press release, the surface paint on the toys contains excessive levels of lead, which poses...
- David Rowell | October 03, 2007 1:00 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe USDA recently announced an expanded recall of certain ground beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli bacteria. The recall concerns 21.7 million pounds of frozen ground beef produced by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey.This is an expansion of a recall originally announced on September 25, 2007. The USDA issued the expanded recall because the New York Health...
- David Rowell | October 03, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsChris Beintker, 52, of Fresno, was killed Monday night when a trailer at his east-Fresno home collapsed as he was working underneath it. According to news reports, Fresno County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene, where Beintker was found pinned underneath the trailer. It is not clear whether the trailer, a jack or some other defective product collapsed, killing Beintker.For more...
- David Rowell | October 02, 2007 1:00 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIn June, the Consumer Products Safety Commission announced the recall of about 1.5 million defective products, toys, for violation of the lead paint standard, which poses very serious health risks to children. The recall concerned "Thomas & Friends" wooden railway toys manufactured in China and imported by RC2 Corporation of Oak Brook, Illinois. Last week the CPSC announced the recall of an...
- David Rowell | October 02, 2007 7:00 AM |
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Wrongful DeathA jury in Anne Arundel County awarded more than $4 million in a wrongful death suit by the parents of a 5 year onld child who drowned in a country club swiming pool. The child, Connor Freed, was found floating face-down in the pool, and was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he died on June 22, 2006. Connor's parents, Thomas Freed and Debra Webber, brought the suit against DRD Pool...
- David Rowell | October 01, 2007 11:14 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Consumer Products Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of children's doll strollers by Lan Enterprises, of Beverton, Oregon. The strollers, sold by Pottery Barn Kids, pose a risk of finger amputation for children. Pottery Barn Kids has received reports of three serious injuries, including one partial finger amputation on a 2 year old boy. CPSC cautions consumers to...
- David Rowell | October 01, 2007 10:03 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsRandy Madrigal, 39, of Fresno, was killed in a motor vehicle accident on the Bar Bridge in San Francisco early Saturday morning. Madrigal was westbound on the bridge when his Toyota Tacoma pickup slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer rig carrying steel rebar. The truck had slowed to exit the Bridge at the Treasure Island off-ramp when Madrigal drove into the back of the truck. Madrigal was...