Be careful next year boys and girls! Valentine’s Day drunken driving patrols made throughout Lower Bucks by State Police led to 33 traffic stops. Pennsylvania State Troopers from the Trevose and Dublin barracks conducted a roving drunken driving DUI patrol on several Bucks County highways. The patrols were done from 11 p.m. on February 14 [...]

William C. Shelly, 84, of Quakertown, PA was fatally injured on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 as a result of a four-car Bucks County car accident on Route 663 in Milford, PA. Milford police report that the fatal car accident took place when Mr. Shelly, driving a Ford F-150 truck, hit the rear of a Chevrolet [...]

William Campagna, 22 years of age, was hit and killed by a vehicle on Friday, February 20, 2009 at approximately 2:30 a.m. while walking on Easton Road (Route 611) in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, PA. Mr. Campagna was hit by a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by John Lake, Jr. of Pipersville, PA. According to Plumstead [...]

A slip and fall injury on ice or snow accumulations in Pennsylvania is a difficult, but winnable personal injury case. Pennsylvania courts have recognized the fact that due to PA’s location in this hemisphere, ice and snow are frequent and it would be impossible for a property owner to keep his or her property free [...]

If Pennsylvania changed its current seat-belt law to a primary enforcement seat-belt law, the Commonwealth would be in a position to gain nearly $6 million in federal highway safety money. A primary enforcement seat-belt law would allow police to stop a motorist solely for failure to buckle-up. The way the PA law currently stands, police [...]

New Jersey Assemblymen Matthew Milam and Nelson Albano are sponsoring a Bill which would stiffen DWI- DUI penalties for individuals with repeat drunk driving (NJ DWI) convictions. The proposed Bill would make it nearly impossible to downgrade NJ DWI (driving while intoxicated) offenses that occur more than ten years after a person’s prior conviction. The [...]

Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, PA police officer, Robert Fuchs, barely avoided serious personal injury on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Officer Fuchs was out of his police cruiser checking on a disabled car parked on the side of the road in the northbound lane of Taylorsville Road between Route 532 and Mount Eyre Road, when [...]

The NJ Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Server Fair Liability Act, also known as the “NJ Dram Shop Act” is the exclusive civil remedy for NJ personal injury and damage of property from the negligent service of alcoholic beverages by a NJ licensed alcoholic beverage server. Under the NJ Dram Shop Act, a person who is personally [...]

Willingboro, NJ resident, William N. Parks, is being charged with the wrongful death of three-year old Imaya Moreland of Trenton, NJ after a fatal NJ car accident. On Friday, January 30, 2009, at approximately 7:00 p.m., a group of five people was waiting to cross Route 129 in Trenton, near the Sovereign Bank Arena. At [...]

Early on the morning of January 10, 2009, Vishalba Patel of Point Pleasant, NJ was pulled over for swerving at Philadelphia Avenue and the White Horse Pike by Egg Harbor City police five miles from a damaged mailbox on the 400 block of the White Horse Pike in Galloway Township. Parts of Mr. Patel’s black [...]

Claudio Kuzmicz of Vineland, NJ was killed as a result of a seven-car NJ car accident, apparently caused by Kuzmicz, on Route 55 close to exit 35, on Friday evening, January 16, 2009. Police reported that Kuzmicz was heading north on Route 55 in Vineland, NJ when he lost control of his SUV. The SUV [...]