What is the first thing you think of when someone mentions a work injury? If you are anything like us, your mind probably jumps to mishaps with tools, falls from scaffolding, knife injuries, or maybe vehicle accidents. Certainly, these traumatic incidents happen all the time in the workplace, but there are also other work injuries […]
Seattle is about to start adding more crosswalks for pedestrians, despite the fact that the long-standing rule book does not say they should. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices says that a crosswalk with a traffic light should only be installed if 93 pedestrians cross a location each hour. Many transportation engineers think that […]
Brooke Taylor was a well-known commercial litigator, someone who brought in a significant amount of income doing her job. That was until she suffered from a serious brain injury when she was 38 years old. On the afternoon of April 24, 2016, Taylor was driving on Seneca Street through a green light when she was […]
A tragic work incident at a Les Schwab Tire Center in Georgetown left a 55-year-old man dead and seriously injured a 29-year-old man. It happened when a bus they were working on crushed them. The Seattle Fire Department says that a jack that was holding the bus up gave out. Les Schwab put out a […]
A Seattle woman was seriously injured by an alleged drunk driver when she was at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and South Henderson Street. The incident happened on January 18 at around 6:15 p.m. and police say that the driver fled the scene. Officer found the vehicle shortly after the crash and […]
We have some disturbing numbers from Road Safe America, a group that studies federal crash data. Across the country from 2009 to 2017, we know that 35,882 people were killed as a result of large truck crashes. They found that Washington saw the largest increase in the number of people killed during that time. “Most […]
