Common Insurance Company Tactics After a Pedestrian Accident — and How to Protect Yourself
May 9, 2025
Pedestrian accidents can have life-altering consequences, leaving victims to face physical injuries, emotional trauma, and mounting financial burdens. The vulnerability of pedestrians in these incidents often makes them reliant on insurance companies for compensation to cover medical bills, lost wages,...
Can Race and Socioeconomic Status Affect Pedestrian Injury Risk?
October 9, 2024
Walking in any urban area can be dangerous, and thousands of pedestrians are killed in collisions every year while even more suffer nonfatal injuries. For quite some time, studies have underscored that older adults are at greater risk of injuries...
Pedestrian Accidents Involving Electric Cars
September 4, 2024
Pedestrians should be able to feel safe whether they are walking for exercise or leisure, walking on a sidewalk downtown, or crossing a street. However, pedestrians sustain serious and deadly injuries much more often than many people expect. According to...
New Study Cites Dangers of Hybrid and Electric Cars for Pedestrians
August 7, 2024
bAre some motor vehicles more likely than others to be involved in collisions with pedestrians? While past studies have revealed that certain types of vehicles — SUVs in particular — are more likely to cause serious or fatal injuries in...
Pedestrian Deaths After Dark: What to Consider
June 26, 2024
Pedestrian accidents and injuries tend to occur more frequently in urban areas, and research has long shown that motor vehicle collisions in which pedestrians are injured tend to increase when the clocks fall back in the autumn for daylight saving...
SUVs and Child Pedestrian Accidents
June 5, 2024
In recent years, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have become some of the most popular vehicles on the roads in and around Richmond, and throughout the country. According to an article in The Week, SUVs originally were developed following the popularity...
Pedestrian Deaths Rise as Car and Truck Size Increases
March 27, 2024
Richmond is a region where walking is common, and pedestrians expect to be safe in neighborhoods and historic walking areas throughout the city. Whether you are shopping in Carytown or taking a walk for exercise in your own community, you...
Understanding Pedestrian Injuries Involving Distracted Walking
March 15, 2024
Pedestrians who are injured while walking on a sidewalk or crossing a street in Richmond frequently sustain such injuries as a result of collisions with cars, trucks, motorists, or e-bike riders. In many instances, these types of collisions result from...
Filing a Wrongful Death Case After a Fatal Pedestrian Accident
March 6, 2024
Serious pedestrian accidents and injuries are much too common in the Richmond area, and pedestrians frequently sustain fatal injuries when they are involved in collisions with automobiles. Fatalities are especially common when motorists are traveling at high speeds. Yet even...