Louisville Injury Law Blog

A normal trip home from school on the bus turned into a trip to the hospital for a group of JCPS students after a car accident involving their school bus and an SUV. The crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. on August 25 in west Louisville.

According to the Louisville Metro Police Department, "the crash happened at the intersection of 26th and Madison Streets between a school bus heading north on 26th Street and turning left onto Madison Street hit a Ford Escape SUV that was heading south on 26th." Authorities report that 11 elementary students were on the #0636 bus at the time of the crash, which was coming from Bloom Elementary school.

A recent car accident has left one man died in west Louisville. The interesting thing about this case is that the man was not inside one of the vehicle involved in the crash, instead he was waiting for the bus. The man was killed while waiting for a TARC bus when he was hit by a car involved in a traffic accident in the intersection.

The accident occurred at the intersection of 23rd and Hill Street around 11 a.m. on Wednesday. According to Louisville Metro Police, an Oldsmobile minivan heading north on 23rd Street ran the stop sign and collided with a maroon Dodge Intrepid traveling east on Hill Street. The force of the collision caused the Intrepid to be thrown in the direction of a nearby bus stop where the victim was standing. As a result, the man was hit and killed by the vehicle.

Testimony has begun in the trial of a Kentucky doctor charged with the murder of his wife in a 2009 boating accident. A jury has begun hearing the evidence in the trial of central Kentucky doctor charged with killing his wife by running her over with a pontoon boat. A jury will decide whether Dr. Steven Hall ran over his wife, Isabel, because of a love affair with another woman or by accident while trying to save her in the water. The event in question occurred on Herrington Lake while the couple celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary in 2009.

During opening statements, the prosecution attempted to paint a certain picture of the doctor describing that his motive in the death of his wife was another woman. They expressed to the panel of seven woman and six men on the jury that witnesses would testify that they saw the couple arguing on the boat prior to the accident and that the doctor only showed concern when people saw his wife floating under the boat.

The case against a Louisville woman accused of drunk drinking and causing a car accident that killed an 11-year-old boy is moving forward. Angela Baumia now faced trial on Aug. 17 and is now talking to the public for the first time about the charges against her since the accident occurred in June of this year.

Baumia is being charged with murder, drunk driving and running a stop sign in connection with the death of 11-year-old Dylan Geitgey back in June 2010. On June 26, Louisville Metro Police claim that Baumia drove drunk on Shenandoah Drive in Louisville's east end when she struck Geitgey with her vehicle.

A Louisville Metro Police Officer was surprised when his police cruiser was struck by a woman driving under the influence of alcohol while making a traffic stop on the side of the road. The car accident occurred on North Whittington Parkway and Shelbyville Road, in front of the University of Louisville's Shelby Campus around 10 p.m. Monday night.

According to news reports and Louisville Metro Police, the crash occurred when the officer's squad car was rear-ended by a suspected drunk driver. The officer had pulled over another vehicle for a traffic violation in the westbound lanes and was outside of his vehicle when it was hit from behind by a Ford Explorer SUV. The collision caused the police cruiser to be pushed into the other vehicle, causing injuries to the driver. According to news reports, the police vehicle had its emergency lights activated at the time of the accident.

Two Kentucky women were killed Wednesday afternoon after a horrific three-vehicle accident, involving two semi-trucks, along southbound Interstate 71 in Boone County. The truck accident, involving two tractor trailers and a vehicle, occurred on the south side of the Walton-Verona exit near mile marker 73 on I-71.

According to police officers, the occupants of a Chevrolet Impala were killed on impact. The victims have been identified as 53-year-old Lynne Whatley, of Irwin, Ohio, and 53-year-old Debra Kleiber, of Plain City, Ohio.

Reports of the truck accident detail that the Impala was traveling northbound and lost control, causing it to slide through the median and collide with a southbound semi hauling masonite. This forced the car back into the median and the semi jack-knifed and ripped out nearly 100 feet of guardrail. The semi was being driven by 63-year-old Herbert Green. He sustained minor injuries in the crash and was not sent to the hospital for medical attention.

An Indiana teen motorcyclist was killed after a distracted driver hit the teen's bike while texting. According to authorities, the car accident occurred when a distracted driver hit the rear of a motorcycle that the teen was riding on as a passenger. As a result of the crash, 18-year-old Kayla Ratliff died from critical injuries sustained in the crash.

Witnesses of the crash say the driver was texting and was not paying attention to the road at the time of the crash. The family of the teen expressed that they couldn't even begin to understand how one second of looking down or taking your eyes of the road can do something like this to an entire family.

One person and two others were injured in a head-on car accident Wednesday morning in Louisville. The car accident occurred at the intersection of Taylorsville and Eastwood Fisherville roads.

Lexington resident Steven Matthews, 24, died at the scene of the crash as a result of multiple blunt force injuries sustained in the car accident, according to the Jefferson County coroner's office. Reports said that Matthews was the only person in his Pontiac Grand Am and allegedly was not wearing his seat belt at the time of the crash.