New Jersey Teen Sentenced to Five Years for Fatal Texting Accident
18-year-old Samuel Oltmans of Montgomery has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fatal accident on Route 206 that occurred when he was texting while driving. Oltmans was 17 at the time of...
Read MoreNew Jersey Residents Injured and Killed in Train Accidents
There have been several cases in the news recently about New Jersey residents injured or killed in accidents involving trains. In Asbury Park, a man was killed after he reportedly jumped into the middle of...
Read MoreNew Jersey Remembers Victims of Drunk Driving Accidents
Family members of victims killed in drunk driving accidents recently remembered their lost loved ones in a ceremony that also recognized New Jersey law enforcement officers who made the most DWI arrests in the past...
Read MoreNew Jersey Law Combats Drowsy Driving Accidents
New Jersey enacted “Maggie’s Law” in 2003 in honor of 20-year-old Maggie McDonnell, who was killed in 1997 when a driver crosses three lanes of traffic and struck her car head-on. The driver admitted that...
Read MoreNew Jersey High School Students Get Graphic Warning of Driving Dangers
Six people with traumatic brain injuries visited Kittatinny Regional High School to warn students about the dangers of reckless driving. The visitors, most in wheelchairs, told students about how their bad decisions when younger left...
Read MoreCourt Overturns Verdicts in New Jersey Accutane Case
A New Jersey Court of Appeals has reversed three personal injury verdicts for plaintiffs who claimed they were injured by the drug Accutane. The plaintiffs, residents of Florida, began taking Accutane for cystic acne when...
Read MoreNew Jersey Court Considers Liability for Text Sender
A New Jersey appeals court panel recently heard arguments on whether a person who sends a text can be liable for damages if the recipient crashes and injures others while reading and driving. A Morristown...
Read MoreNew Jersey Could Soon Enforce Smart Gun Law
In 2002, New Jersey became the first state in the country to require all handguns sold in the state to be equipped with “smart gun” technology that would only allow the owners to fire them....
Read MoreNew Jersey Bus Crash Injures 23
Investigators are still working to determine what caused a chartered bus to swerve out of control and flip on its side in a New Jersey crash that injured 23 people, eight of them critically. The...
Read MoreNew Jersey Baby Killed When Light Pole Falls on Stroller
Eight-month-old Angelie Paredes was killed when a shuttle bus struck a light pole, which then fell on her stroller, on a sidewalk in West New York, New Jersey. Seven other people were injured when the...
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