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An accident that killed a young man in Pittsburgh two months ago will not result in any criminal charges. Details about what happened that night are sketchy, but the end result was clear: a 22-year-old college senior, the son of a judge in Lackawanna County, was killed in a car accident. The man was hit …

The City of Pittsburgh may be getting red light cameras. Legislation was introduced to Pittsburgh City Council that would allow the use of red light cameras throughout Pittsburgh. Red light cameras are used to capture the license plate number of any vehicle violating the red light signal. From the picture, the police can then issue …

If you said drinking and driving, you’d be wrong. Thanks to effective ad campaigns, improved education and pressure from parents and peers, injuries from motor vehicle accidents have dropped dramatically over the last several years. This is obviously good news; the fewer kids who decide to drink and drive, the better it is for all …

In many cases, when a single-vehicle car accident occurs, liability for the crash rests with the driver. However, circumstances exist where a driver is ultimately found not to be at fault when there are no other vehicles involved. This was the case recently in a crash involving a Pennsylvania woman who sustained serious injuries when …