A jury has ruled that Enterprise Rent-A-Car must pay $15 million to the family of two girls who died in a fiery car crash in 2004 in one of the company’s rental cars. Raechel and Jacqueline Houck were riding in a rented Chrysler PT Cruiser when the car crashed, killing…
Camden County, Penn., has agreed to a $15 million settlement with a man who lost his leg and part of his arm when his car crashed into a guardrail and the railing snapped off, cutting through the vehicle. In 2004, Nicholas Anderson was driving on Raritan Road when he was…
An $835,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against the city of Louisville over an accident with a police cruiser that killed a local man in 2006. Donnie Puente was standing next to his car in the emergency lane on a Kentucky highway when a police car driven…
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a Naples, Fla., teacher alleging that she was intoxicated when she caused a car accident last year that killed a local woman. The lawsuit, filed by the family of Bree Kelly, claims that Andrea M. Kidder was drunk at the wheel, which…
Scott Wilson, a 23-year-old civil engineer, was killed while driving to his mother’s house in Wellington when his Hyundai Sonata was struck by a black Bentley driven by wealthy polo club owner John Goodman. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating whether Goodman, the founder of the International…
Don’t ignore flashing lights, bells and other warnings when approaching railroad crossings. And in Burleson, officials were working to get that message across. After three fatalities at railroad crossings in about a year, the Burleson Police Department, along with the Union Pacific Railroad, conducted an enforcement operation at the Alsbury…
A Denton County grand jury returned a murder indictment against a chronic drunken driver on charges that he drove drunk again on Easter and caused a wreck, killing two members of an Argyle family and seriously injuring three others. John Patrick Barton, 30, is accused of causing the wreck on…
Students at Crowley High School mourned the loss of sophomore Germain Harris II, who died in a car wreck. Harris, 16, died after his car struck a sign pole in front of an Arby’s restaurant in the 3800 block of Altamesa Boulevard in southwest Fort Worth. The wreck happened at…
A St Louis police officer and the bar that served her alcohol have agreed to pay a total of $2.255 million — the limit of their insurance policies — to compensate the families of four young people killed and one man injured in a traffic crash in Des Peres last…
The federal judge handling the lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp over cars that raced out of control has set the first court hearing on the combined litigation for next month. Lawyers for Toyota will face off May 13 before U.S. District Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, California, against attorneys…