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Airplane, described by many as the fastest, convenient and relatively the safest means of transportation, ever had. To that, I can agree, qualifiedly.
Why qualified or with reservation?
Though, plane has now become part of mass transport, there are reported incidents (in fact many) across all jurisdictions of accident involvement with this particular kind of conveyance. One thing can describe from all these plane accidents, that is, “one incident can cause a large number of fatalities”. That is to show how grave its impact whenever plane is involved in air mishaps.
Like in the recent event that happened in Ventura County, specifically in a Camarillo industrial park, reported by CBS2 (Thursday, 10 Jul 2008) with the heading, “Small plane flips in Ventura County”. The report related that a banner-towing plane has landed upside down in a Camarillo field during an emergency landing.
Luckily, the pilot did not suffer any serious injuries. Still lucky enough, that the plane has not conveyed passengers while taking its course.
Worthy to note then, the event was just the third mishap involving a small airplane in Ventura County in the past eight days.
Terrified! News like this one really irked me!
I express concern with this, as I am an air traveler myself. Traveling through plane medium really is quite a risk, as potentially we can be dead at an instant with no choice to live whenever grave trouble in voyage happened.
With these facts and realities about planes, we air travelers cannot do anything but hope that no complications arise when we take our flight.
For the airline companies, this I say, that they should properly maintain their air conveyances to the maximum level to avoid air troubles while in transit. Or else, when plane accident happens, they can be held liable for the deaths or any injuries to passengers as well as to the damages and loss of its cargoes.
News reported in www.sacbee.com written by Susan Ferriss entitled, “Farmworker's family sues over California heat-related death” related the gloomy incident that happened to María Isavel Vásquez Jiménez, who died in Lodi two days after collapsing in a vineyard on May 14 due to hot vineyard environment. The news was published on Thursday, June 19, 2008.
The family of the teenage girl filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Merced Superior Court on Wednesday, the following day of the death. In its complaint, it alleged that Merced Farm Labor and West Coast Grape Farming Inc. (the company that hired Merced to provide workers) are responsible for the death of their daughter.
Public eyes were open to this issue as there are diverse views on the matter that have been issued and relayed. The labor sector as well as other sectors has expressed their concerns on the tragic wrongful death of the teenage girl. The labor activist has this to say on the event, “They want the suit to send a strong message that California farm companies – not just the labor contractors they hire – should be held accountable for conditions that endanger workers”.
I was shaken by the issue and I expressed deep sympathy to the teenage girl who has been ruthlessly killed while doing her job religiously.
How many of type of cases with this liking have happened in our society? I can fairly guess there are many. This case was just an addition to the many cases of wrongful death that besets our jurisdiction.
Wrongful death cases, have gained advances in the list of most celebrated personal injury law litigated issues. Unfortunately, despite the prevalence of this event, many people have no real inkling regarding their right to claim compensation for their losses coursing through the legal option of filing a wrongful death lawsuit or claim.
Gladly though, the parents of the teenage girl, through its lawyers have wage the proper avenue in ventilating their injury compensation for their losses by filing a wrongful death case. However, for those who failed to opt for this legal remedy, I express my concern.
One thing I must say, especially to the surviving families, when events like this happened, go for this remedy in your pursuit for injury compensation.
With the continuous upsurge of auto accident cases in California, the state government has enacted a new law that will set some limitations in the use of mobile phones while driving. Taking effect this first day of July, the Cellular Phone Law seeks to prevent drivers from engaging with fatal auto collisions that brought about great damages in the lives of the victims.
The said law will prohibit using cell phones unless a driver has a hands free device. Drivers who will fail to abide by this rule will be fined $20 on the first offense and $50 for the succeeding violations.
However, the law will allow automobile drivers to use cell phones in emergency cases. This law also exempts commercial vehicle drivers who are using push-to-talk phones until July 1, 2011.
With this law, California will now be included in the list of states that has a law on cellular phone use while driving.
Now, in my own view, this legal development will just create a bit of impact of diminishing auto collision incidents. The real problem does not rely mainly on whether a driver has his/her both hands on the wheel but rather his/her concentration in driving.
Again, as an auto collision lawyer myself, I would suggest that our legislators focus their attempt to minimize road accidents on laws that will compel drivers to take a course on safe driving. I do believe that adequate information will threaten those unruly drivers, which will eventually lessen the accounts of auto accidents.
Auto accidents are dismal events that are prevalent in our society and impossible to avoid. People can be potential victims of this unlikely eventualities even how careful and concern one can be.
Thus, with these concerns, it would be worthwhile to illuminate and give comprehensive list of things to do whenever one is involved in auto accidents. For then, even if we cannot all throughout prevent or avoid auto accident involvement, at least one can learn the right thing to do after their accident encounter.
There are considerable numbers of articles that tackles and illuminate on the basic auto accident checklists.
All the guidance given are aimed at providing workable measures of protection for the victims, importantly so in their impending personal injury lawsuits or claim for compensation.
In this respect, the relevant checklists are the following:
- After the impact, try to remain calm and composed
- Stop your car completely especially when the accident involves pedestrian, parked or moving cars, or other people’s property
- Try to pull off to the side of the street or road to avoid traffic congestions and disturbances
- Turn off your vehicle's engine and step out of your car
- Ask for assistance from people around
- Seek medical assistance as soon as practicable
- Be courteous and tactful to all parties
- Call the police and relate your own tell of the story. Make sure your thoughts are clear and composed before making any statements to the police. Assist the police with their official report.
- Avoid making statements about you admitting fault or responsibility to the any person more so with the other driver, witnesses and police
- Contact your insurance company when you have your thoughts clear and after you have on hand all pertinent accident information
- If able, take pictures of the damage to your car and the area or location of the accident including a complete diagram showing direction and positions of vehicles involved in the accident
- For a more comprehensive auto accident checklist, you can ask the help of an Auto Accident Attorney.
Capping all these, you need to confer with an Auto Accident Attorney to help you prepare for your injury lawsuit or claim at the soonest. The Attorney will assess your cause and can give success in your compensation pursuit.
The very much celebrated Railroad Accident that besets Los Angles California, as reported by CNN International coined as "Train collision near Los Angeles kills 11", is considered as the deadliest incident in the history of Metrolink.
The incident happened in January 26, 2005 at 6:03 a.m. in Glendale-Los Angeles that ended with 11 deaths. Two Metrolink passenger trains, a union Pacific freight train and a Jeep Grand Cherokee were involved in the collision. The Jeep was left abandoned on the tracks by certain Juan Manuel Alvarez who alleged to have contemplated suicide.
The incident was alarming and devastating especially to the families of the victims -who are unlucky to survive the railroad accident. This incident should be given particular importance by our authorities as life is at stake in this respect and that a considerable number of people ride trains in going from and into their homes and offices.
Aside from the lunacy of the Juan Manuel Alvarez, this particular incident has brought several issues that have something to do with changing the rail systems to a more modern and safer one and issues relating to safety concerns- that need to be considered first over profits.
Setting aside other issues, the foremost issues to consider would be the full exhaustion of compensation claims of the survivors of the helpless victims including those that were injured in the train collision.
Up until now, the trial in this case was still on going and the survivors and other victims have not yet fully compensated from the tragic railroad accident. In a latest development of the trial, last Tuesday, May 27, 2008 the defendant apologizes for commuter rail deaths saying, “He was trying to kill himself and never meant to harm anyone else”.
This bit portion of our history taught us a lesson that we should be cautious in all our actions and must not make anything that could harm other people.
As for the general mass of train commuters, one relevant lesson to be learned from the incident was that you have to be proactive in communicating your causes of action in courts whenever you are involved in any train mishaps. You can ask immediate assistance from qualified Railroad Accidents Attorneys when cases of this nature besets you. The Attorney, with its vast experience in this matter can readily assist you in your trials or claims pursuit against the faulting party.
The Railroad Accidents Attorneys will be of help for communicating your causes in the courts of law.
