Dram shop liability laws make bars, clubs, restaurants and other alcoholic beverage vendors responsible for the injuries and property damage that drunk patrons cause others. In North Carolina, sellers are always liable for the harm intoxicated minors cause during a...
Car Accidents
Footage Simulates Crash that Killed Marcial Colmillo, Juan Cortes
I have already blogged about the car wreck in which Marcial Aragon Colmillo and Juan Carlos Cortes-two young men from Greensboro, NC-unexpectedly lost their lives on March 25, 2011. They were killed by an underage drunk driver. Ian Michael Smith, 20, of Archdale, was...
Tangled web of underage drinking and DWI leaves two dead
A horrible wrong-way crash in Greensboro shows the variety of liabilities that can arise from underage drinking and driving while intoxicated. Marcial Aragon Colmillo of Greensboro and Juan Carlos Cortes were killed when an impaired driver slammed head-on into their...
UPDATE: Teenage Driver Dies in Davidson County Crash
A young driver died Tuesday afternoon, March 22, 2011 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC following a car accident that happened around 9:48 p.m. on March 21. Chelsea Nicole Lamb, 17, of Thomasville, was driving a red Jeep when she lost control...
April Brooke English, Chelsea Lamb Rushed to Wake Forest Med
A young driver is in the ICU at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC following a car accident on March 21, 2011. Chelsea Nicole Lamb, 17, was driving a red Jeep SUV when she lost control of the car at the intersection of Conrad Hill Mine Road and...
Motorcyclist Robert Haase Seriously Hurt due to “Morning Sun”
Robert Haase of Liberty, NC was airlifted to Duke Hospital in Durham on March 17, 2011 following a collision with another vehicle. Mr. Haase suffered a broken leg after a car struck the motorcycle he was riding down Wayne White Road in Randolph County near the town of...
Laura’s Legacy Lives on as Laura’s Law, Approved Unanimously in NC House
Laura Fortenberry, a 17-year-old girl from Gaston County, NC, was killed by a repeat offender of driving while intoxicated on July 25, 2010. Laura was riding as a passenger in a vehicle that was hit head-on when Howard Pasour, 28, of Bessemer City attempted to pass...
Fatal hit-and-run shows tragic and familiar pattern
Trevor Spencer Prough, 18 years old, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on northbound U.S. Highway 421 close to Peace Haven Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Saturday, February 19, 2011. He was found at 3:15 a.m. that morning. Kaitlin Smith Slater, age 24, of...
Greensboro Native, Jorge Arango, Dies in Motorcycle Wreck
Funeral services will be held today to honor the life of Jorge Francisco Arango, a 22-year-old student from Greensboro, NC who was killed in a motorcycle accident last weekend. Jorge was riding his motorcycle on Morrisville Parkway in Morrisville, NC when another...
Raymond Cook Convicted, Awaits Sentencing in Death of Ballerina
A former plastic surgeon from Raleigh, NC was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired. A jury in Wake County, NC reached the verdict today, March 1, 2011, after two days of deliberation. Prosecutors argued...