Columbus, GA Personal Injury Law Blog

A Georgia woman will be forced to the live the rest of her life treating severe burn injuries while her boyfriend will spend the rest of his life behind bars for inflicting them.

After a jury found him guilty of setting his girlfriend on fire during a dispute, a judge in Clayton County recently sentenced the 30-year-old man to 205 years in jail. The victim, and everyone on her side, was happy to hear that the man received such a stiff penalty for the heinous crime.

Atlanta residents are mourning the loss of a veteran police officer after she was killed in an accident caused by an alleged drunk driver. The 46-year-old female victim worked for the Atlanta Police Department for 20 years. As the community remembered the woman for her service, Atlanta's mayor said the woman's death should remind residents to offer their respect to officers, who put their lives on the line every day.

The woman was struck late on a recent Tuesday night after she arrived on the scene of a one-car accident. After arriving on the scene, the officer was about to get out of her vehicle, but instead was hit by on oncoming car. The collision happened at the interchange ramp of Interstate 75 south and I-85 north. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 25-year-old man was admitted to a local hospital to be treated for burn injuries he sustained during a fire at a mobile home near a small Georgia town. Local fire crews continue to investigate what may have caused the mysterious blaze, which happened at a home located on the grounds of what used to be a junkyard.

Fire crews were tipped off about the fire just before 5 a.m. one day. When they arrived, they discovered the victim and another individual present just outside of the double-wide trailer, which was already engulfed in flames. The victim was transported to the hospital sporting what were considered first- and second-degree burns on his arms and legs. Emergency crews withheld the victim's identity immediately after the incident.

Following a recent motorcycle accident in Lee County, Georgia, state law enforcement is reminding motorists to be especially mindful of motorcyclists, as one misstep could leave these individuals dead or seriously injured.

This is exactly what happened in the recent accident, when the driver of an SUV did not spot a motorcyclist and pulled out in front of him. A senior trooper for the Georgia State Patrol said the male motorcyclist was traveling south on Georgia Highway 3 while the SUV was heading north on the same road. Without spotting the motorcycle, the female driver of the SUV turned left into a supermarket parking lot, putting the SUV directly in the motorcycle's path.

Details from a witness are emerging about a recent collision between a member of the Georgia State Patrol and an SUV. The car accident claimed the life of a woman, who was married to a member of the Atlanta Braves staff, a Major League Baseball team.

While law enforcement works to reconstruct the accident and study what may have caused it, there is little doubt from a witness what sparked the fatal incident. At around 4:40 p.m., a witness saw the police cruiser traveling at a high rate of speed. The witness said he was concerned that the officer might hit another motorist on the road.

While car accidents claimed the lives of four individuals over the 2011 Christmas weekend in Georgia, there are still some signs that state roads have become safer with time.

The accident rate on Georgia highways has dropped for the last five years, and with the pace the state was on late into 2011, it was on track to see yet another drop. As of Dec. 19, 2011, there were 62 less traffic fatalities than there were at that time in 2010. In 2010, the state witnessed 1,244 highway deaths throughout the state, which plummeted 3.7 percent from 2009. In fact, this has been the trend since 2006, which followed a horrendous 2005, which set a record with 1,744 highway deaths.

When you think about a car accident, you probably envision a collision between a car and another vehicle or a tree. One Georgia college student was almost fatally injured in a car accident, but it did not involve either of these scenarios. Instead the device that is supposed to keep her safe during a car accident seriously injured the woman.

While sitting at a traffic light back in April, the woman's driver and passenger side air bags randomly deployed. The deployment caused shrapnel to sever an artery in the woman's neck, nearly killing her. She eventually survived after being in intensive care for two weeks, where she underwent a number of surgeries.

Full-fledged motorcycles are not the only two-wheeled vehicles drivers need to pay special heed to on the roads. Smaller-scale versions of motorcycles, known as mopeds, are just as tough, if not harder, to detect out on the streets. Similarly, a car accident that snares one of these vehicles can cause very serious injuries.

This proved to be true for a man in Augusta, Georgia, who was riding a moped at the time of a motor vehicle accident. He suffered serious injuries as a result.