Albemarle Car Accident And Alcohol

I recently wrote about a tragic two car accident in Albemarle Virginia that involved a fatality and serious injuries to two other people. Albemarle County police now indicate that alcohol may have played a role in causing the car accident. I had ventured a guess that alcohol would be a factor just because the accident took place at 3 a.m. on a Sunday. Unfortunately, too many people drink and drive on the weekends and even more so as we approach the holidays. Serious injuries and wrongful death accidents seem to cluster around the holidays. Just today, the front page of the Charlottesville Daily Progress had a photo of a plane crash that resulted in fatality. A doctor from New Jersey was on his way to pick up his son from UVA when his plane crashed. Aviation crash cases are complicated as so may things may contribute to cause the crash. At this point, we do not know what caused the plane to crash although it was reported that the pilot notified the tower of an emergency situation. In a plane crash case that I worked on several years ago, the cause was a combination of pilot error and poor maintenance. Let's hope that investigators can pinpoint the cause in this case. Francis P. Hajek Wilson & Hajek, LLC, a personal injury law firm Experienced Injury and Accident Lawyers Serving Virginia, including Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, Orange, Greene, Augusta, Buckingham, Staunton, Waynesboro, Culpepper, Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News