Automobile Accidents

• Royal Oak Michigan Car Accident Death

  Larry Buckfire | April 22, 2007 5:23 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  I read about the tragic Michigan car accident that claimed the life of a a 57-year-old tow truck driver the other day in Royal Oak, Michigan. The incident occurred while the man was changing the tire on a truck on eastbound Interstate 696 near Woodward Avenue. A sport utility vehicle pinned him between that truck and his tow truck and caused severe injuries that led to his death. My office...

• Governor Suffers Brain Injury in Car Accident

  Larry Buckfire | April 14, 2007 1:20 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  New Jersey Governeor Corzine suffered significant injuries, including fractured bones and a traumatic brain injury, when his police driven SUV was involved in a serious car accident last week. The governor was apparently not wearing his seat belt at the time of hte accident. He also sustained numerous internal injuries and is on a ventilator. It appears that he has a long road to recovery.

• Michigan Car Accident Death

  Larry Buckfire | April 13, 2007 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  I came across a very tragic Michigan car accident case while reading headlines today. A Milford man died when a deer was struck by another vehicle and then crashed the roof of his car. He lost control of the vehicle and went off the road. He was unconcsious when EMS arrived at the scene. In Michigan, these types of wrongful death car accidents with deers are more frequenly seen in the Fall...

• Detroit Motorcycle Accident Victim Shines

  Larry Buckfire | April 10, 2007 8:12 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  I read a great story about a young man, Hurie Johnson, who was in a serious motorcycle accident several years ago that resulted in the loss of a leg. At the time of the accident in 2002, he was a star basketball player at Henry Ford Community College. After receiving a prosthetic leg, Hurie began working on his game again and now plays in a competitive league with other young men who have also...

• Two Boys Killed in Michigan Car Accident

  Larry Buckfire | April 09, 2007 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  Police say winter-like conditions covered the roads in Grand Traverse County, and caused the tragedy for the family of vacationers. "They kind of did it in a manner that it caught the side of the van with the back part of their vehicle and it just sliced the van open."Two boys died tragically last weekent after their family van slammed into a tow truck in northern Michigan. The Michigan car...

• Michigan Car Accident Kills Two

  Larry Buckfire | April 06, 2007 10:38 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  A tragic way to start the holiday weekend. Police are investigating a deadly car crash on U.S. 131 in Allegan County that killed a 29-year-old Grand Rapids man and his female passenger. The man lost control of his southbound vehicle and crossed the median north of M-89, colliding with a northbound vehicle driven by a 31-year-old Portage man whose injuries were not life-threatening. The road...

• Michigan Motorcycle Accident Deaths Fall

  Larry Buckfire | April 05, 2007 8:56 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  Good news for Michigan motorcyclists in 2006. Michigan Motorcycle accidents decreased from 3,504 in 2005 to 3,296 in 2006. The number of motorcyclists killed fell approximately 7 percent, from 122 in 2005 to 114 in 2006. Our firm handles a significant number of motorcycle accident cases throughout the State of Michigan and we see the devastating injuries caused in these accidents. The...

• Driver Guilty in Michigan Car Accident

  Larry Buckfire | April 03, 2007 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  A River Rouge, Michigan man pled guilty yesterday in Monroe County Circuit Court of driving under the influence of drugs and striking a minivan April 18, 2006, in a Michigan car accident killing a Monroe woman and her daughter and injuring her son. The driver pleaded no contest yesterday to one count of operating a motor vehicle under the influence causing injury and two counts of attempted...

• Michigan No-Fault Auto Insurance Decision

  Larry Buckfire | April 03, 2007 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  The Michigan Court of Appeals held that the trial court in a No-Fault Insurance trial should not have awarded attorney's fees against the Michigan insurance company that denied benefits to an injured person. The party filed a lawsuit claiming that the insurance company wrongfully denied benefits. The claimant apparently did not attend an insurance medical examination and the court determined...

• Michigan Car Accident

  Larry Buckfire | April 02, 2007 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  A man has apparently sustained serious injuries in a Michigan car accident after his car left the road and struck a tree. The woman who struck his vehcile and apparently caused his car to leave the road sustained only minor injuries. The reasons for the accident are unknown and were not related to any weather condition. The accident stopped traffic for almost six hours on I-75 near I-475.