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A person crossing a street in a motorized wheelchair was hurt in a two-car accident in the Myers Park area of Charlotte, North Carolina (NC).
The wreck happened at the intersection of Providence Road and Cherokee Road, according to wbtv.com.
The exact details of this crosswalk accident are still unclear. Did one of the drivers fail to yield and attempt to turn too early? Was one of the drivers distracted? Did one of them turn on a red light? These questions will probably be answered once the police report in released.
Unfortunately, crosswalk accidents are not uncommon. Close to 60,000 pedestrians were seriously injured in crosswalk-related accidents in 2009. To make matters worse, over 4,000 pedestrians lost their lives in crosswalk accidents in 2009, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Both drivers and pedestrians have to be aware of each other when there is an available crosswalk. This is especially true for drivers since, if you make a mistake and wind up hitting a pedestrian, the damage you inflict on that pedestrian could be life-threatening.
About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is a law firm whose attorneys focus on injury and accident law. We maintain office in Elizabeth City, North Carolina (NC), on East Elizabeth Street, and we have handled thousands of cases in which victims got hurt or killed in car, truck, train and motorcycle crashes caused by others' negligence or carelessness.
We serve every area of North Carolina, including Elizabeth City, Edenton, Raleigh, Durham, Rocky Mount, Roanoke Rapids, Greensboro, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Halifax, Northampton, Greenville, Goldsboro, Havelock, Kinston, New Bern, Tarboro, Wilson, Ahoskie, Currituck, Camden and the Outer Banks towns of Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Manteo, Corolla, Currituck and Dare. In South Carolina, we cover the state from Myrtle Beach and Charleston to Orangeburg, Columbia, Florence, Rock Hill, Darlington, Aiken, Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg.
Firm attorneys Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008 and the National Million Dollar Advocates Forum since 2009. In addition, our firm has been named a North Carolina "Best Law Firm" for personal injury law since 2010 by U.S. News & World Report.
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