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A catastrophic building collapse that occurred in Hackensack, New Jersey last year has prompted the New Jersey senate to pass legislation to locate potential problems to structures before other building cave-ins occur. The bill would require architects or engineers to evaluate the safety of existing structures. If defects are found, an evacuation of the building […]

A family on its way to New Jersey for a funeral suffered severe losses after its minivan collided with a deer and was subsequently hit by an 18-wheeler truck. A total of seven members of the extended family were killed in the car accident. Those killed in this accident included a 52-year-old man and his […]

An elderly couple was found dead on their home this past week possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning. During the recent snowstorm, the couple had been using a generator to keep warm and officials could not rule out that the generator ultimately caused their death. Useful products like generators can also become dangerous products. With […]

An unseasonal snowstorm has delayed travel plans, cut power for 4 million people and, unfortunately, left several people dead in the New Jersey area. Several car accidents were blamed on the storm, some of them fatal. Some states received black ice on the highways that caused as many as 30 car crashes. Bus and rail […]

It was recently reported that a New Jersey resident died in an ATV accident. Though such accidents are becoming more frequently common, the facts concerning this crash are unique in that the authorities had difficulties in identifying the cause of death. The initial determination by authorities that the death was the result of a savage […]

Even the most innocuous seeming products sold in New Jersey and the rest of the United States may turn out to be dangerous and/or defective. A report released in March of 2009 revealed that shampoo manufactured and marketed by Johnson & Johnson may contain cancer-causing chemicals such as a formaldehyde additive. Despite the report’s conclusions, […]

Slippery conditions and decreased visibility unfortunately can make driving on our roads a dangerous activity. This is probably why three deaths on our New Jersey roads have been blamed on the recent snowstorm. One victim was killed on the New Jersey turnpike. After getting out of his car following a rear-end collision, at least two […]

New Jersey student athletes often have suffered from head injuries or concussions but have continued participating in the athletic event. Though concussions and head trauma have always occurred in athletic events, concussions are beginning to now be recognized as dangerous injuries. The number of concussions reported has gone up, but this probably is not because […]

Two train accidents near New Jersey within the last 24 hours should remind our readers of the dangers trains pose to drivers. In one of the accidents, a commuter train crashed into a car that reportedly drove around lowered railroad gates in order to pass through. That accident happened at the Main Street Crossing in […]

Last Thursday, the estate of a man killed in a 2007 accident in Middleton was awarded over $3 million by a jury in New Brunswick. That sounds like a pretty large award, but considering what was taken from the man’s family, it hardly compares. The man was reportedly killed on September 14, 2007 on route […]