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If you have been injured by a drunk driver, it is vital that you contact one of our Hartford drunk driving accident lawyers as soon as possible. Why? - because not only is the drunk driver liable for your injuries and losses, but the establishment that served the alcohol to the drunk driver. You have 120 days to put the dram shop on written notice of your intention of filing a claim against it. If written notice is not given within the 120 days, you will be prohibited from bringing a dram shop claim against the establishment.

Less than 12 hours before he died, Joshua Ammirato was posting messages on an Internet message board seeking advice about how to drive his 2008 BMW M5 faster. Ammirato, 18, logged onto M5board.com Thursday and Friday, asking other M5 drivers how to shift smoother in the 500-horsepower machine.
“The problem is when I’m going pedal to the metal pushing 140 and upshifting, there tends to be thud noise with the gear change,” he wrote in one post. Ammirato and four other young Marion County men were killed at about 3:45 a.m. Saturday, when the BMW M5 he was driving sailed off the end of the Greystone airstrip in Anthony and crashed into a tree. Messages on the board devoted to M5 enthusiasts show Ammirato logged on shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday as “AmericanM5.” Read more about this tragic car accident.

Police pursued a stolen car that officers said struck a cruiser from Hartford into East Hartford Wednesday afternoon. The Hartford police auto theft unit discovered and followed what they identified as a stolen car at about 2:30 p.m. Police said the car’s driver then struck a Hartford police cruiser in the area of Farmington Avenue and Gillette Street, after which time, officers began pursuing the car into East Hartford.  With the assistance of East Hartford officers, police eventually apprehended two people who were inside the car just before 3 p.m. on Ellsworth Street in East Hartford. An officer who suffered minor injuries was transported to Hartford Hospital. To read more about car accidents and Connecticut law on car accidents click here.

A Houston TV investigative reporter has revealed one more hazard for us to worry about. Even when the federal drug testing regulations are followed by the testing labs, it is extremely easy for a truck driver who is motivated to do so to cheat on the test by using mail order drug-free urine. See this video report from Robert Arnold at KPRC TV in Houston, Texas.

Large trucks have blind spots, or No-Zones, around the front, back and sides of the truck. Watch out! A truck could even turn into you, because these No-Zones make it difficult for the driver to see. So, don’t hang out in the No-Zones, and remember, if you can’t see the truck driver in the truck’s mirror, the truck driver can’t see you.