Aries Llamas is now speaking out against drunk driving after she was hit by a drunk driver and is now forced to learn how to walk again. One month after the 20-year-old, mother of two children was married, a drunk driver hit her car head-on. The accident caused her legs to go into her pelvis, her spleen was pierced and …
Texas Construction Accident Kills One and Injures Two
Recently there was a fatal construction accident that involved three workers at a Jacksonville, TX construction site. As a cement crew worked on installing reinforcing steel to a 40-year-old retaining wall, it suddenly collapsed and killed two construction workers and injured one. Donald Starling, 60, and Hollis Morris, 68, who were both killed, were residents of Tyler. The injured worker …
RV Crash Leads to Wrongful Death Case
Recently a widow filed a lawsuit stating defendants caused a recreational vehicle to lose control, and block a highway, leading to a car accident that killed her husband. Roberta Leyendecker filed a lawsuit on July 6 at Jefferson County District Court against the Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance, Gordon and Jerry Buchleiter, and Cynthia and Larry Chandler. The lawsuit states …
Dallas Tow Truck Driver Hits Pedestrian in Deadly Hit-and-Run
Recently a tow truck driver hit a pedestrian and didn’t stop to help the victim, 41-year-old Juan Steele. After the tow truck hit him, another car slammed into him as well and also did not stop to give assistance – this is also known as a hit and run accident. The police have not identified that car or driver yet, …
Three Dallas Children Die in Drunk Driving Accident
In Montana Vista, NM three children from Dallas, TX were visiting their grandfather when they were struck and killed by a white Ford F-250 that ran a stop sign. The Ford hit the Chevrolet Impala the children were riding in. Their grandfather and a female passenger also died at the scene. The 23-year-old driver of the vehicle, Alberto Coronado, is …
Drunk Driver Crashes into Texas Store and Hits Clerk
Recently a 28-year-old Texas store clerk was just standing behind the counter at work when a drunk driver drove through the wall and crashed into him. A video of the accident shows Rajmish Kumar of Navasota, Texas was working the cash register at Hi Ho Store and Café when the 2001 Honda Passport came through the wall and sent him …
DART Driver Involved in Five-Car Accident is Fired
Recently, a DART paratransit van ran into stopped traffic and caused a five-car accident that injured two people on the Dallas North Tollway. The accident made national news as the video spread showing how the driver, Willie Grant, didn’t stop or slow down as he approached the line of traffic. He is no longer employed by Veolia Transportation, the company …
Drunk Driver Kills Waxahachie Police Officer
Officer Josh Williams, a 17-year veteran of the Waxahachie Police Department was killed after being hit by a suspected drunk driver this past weekend. Officer Williams was in his police cruiser on North Highway 77 when a 24-year-old man driving a SUV hit him. Williams was responding to a reported disturbance at Taco Bell when the accident occurred. He was …
W.T. Johnson Wins $500,000 Auto Accident Jury Verdict
The Law Office of W.T. Johnson recently won a $500,000 jury verdict for a client that was rear-ended in an auto-accident. The client was in a work van going to a worksite when the defendant never hit her brakes and rear-ended him. He had $29,000 in medical bills and had to miss work. Doctors think he might need more surgery. …
Dental Insurance Class Action Case
This past spring, our W.T. Johnson nursing home abuse lawyers settled a $900,000 dental insurance class action suit. The lawsuit was against two large insurance companies in Tulsa, O.K. The case stated that the defendants improperly marketed dental insurance policies to 1,600 Medicaid recipients in nursing homes in Oklahoma. Some of the nursing home residents that bought the insurance didn’t …
