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A small plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban Orlando neighborhood Tuesday, killing both people aboard and starting two house fires that burned two adults and a 10-year-old boy. The cause of this fatal crash is under investigation.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Airlines, Cruise, Buses, and Other Mass Transit Accidents.

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A woman, who was struck by a car on Monday, is in critical condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital this morning.Christina Whitfield, 27, was struck Monday morning by Stephen Urban, 28, who was driving westbound on Route 34. Whitfield was treated at the scene before being transferred to the hospital.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

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A fatal auto accident in Pennsylvania has stirred concerns about another potentially hazardous Chinese product in wide use in the U.S.: tires. About 450,000 Chinese-made tires sold in the U.S. -- and possibly many more -- may lack an important safety feature, according to federal regulators and the U.S. distributor that helped design them. The tires are defective because an unknown portion of...

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As we approach July 4, many of us start thinking about fireworks. Under Connecticut law, only a limited type of fireworks are legal. Specifically, only sparklers are legal. All other fireworks are illegal. Sparklers, as determined by the state, include sparkling devices of not more than one hundred grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item, which are non-explosive and non-aerial. These include...

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The Connecticut Department of Transportation has cut back on bridge inspections across the state over the past two years. Under its new policy, the DOT will inspect most bridges half as often as outlined under federal standards, and less often than it did at the time of the 1983 Mianus River Bridge collapse, which killed three and caused the state to improve its inspection standards. This cut...

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A 2-year-old boy remained in critical condition this morning after he was found Sunday at the bottom of a pool during a family party, police said. Antonio Capetillo of Hartford was attending a birthday party with his family on Elm Street in East Hartford when he went through an unlocked gate surrounding an above-ground swimming pool and fell into the water. The police continue to investigate...

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Judge Robert Bork, former Supreme Court nominee, has filed a personal injury lawsuit, alleging that he injured himself as a result of a slip and fall accident at the Yale Club last year. He seeks compensatory and punitive damages. This lawsuit is noteworthy because Judge Bork has written on many subjects, including the need for tort reform. The plaintiff's tort bar and personal injury...

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In the fatal crash that led to an arrest yesterday as reported in this blog, the judge in the case has set a $3 million dollar bail on the defendant. The defendant is charged with second-degree manslaughter, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, operating while under suspension, failure to keep right and failure to wear a seat belt. Incredibly, this defendant has 3...

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A woman lies on the ground dying from a perforated bowel. She is in pain, vomitting up blood and asking for help. Incredibly, this was happening in an emergency room. At the King-Harbor hospital in Los Angeles, this woman, her boyfriend and an unidentified person pleaded with the hospital for help. Their pleas for help were ignored. Calls were made to 911 requesting that an ambulance take...

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Connecticut state police arrested a man in a fatal collision in Mansfield on New Year's Day.Police have charged Michael Knybel Jr., 39, of Stafford Springs, with manslaughter with a motor vehicle while intoxicated, operating under suspension and drunken driving. Darren Fegan, 32, of Mansfield, was killed when his sport utility vehicle was hit head-on by the pick-up truck that Michael Knybel was...

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