Recent Posts in Beach Accident Category
Posted on Sep 17, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
When 21-year-old Gregory Minetti began having trouble coming ashore during a storm near Newport, RI, his 23-year-old friend jumped in to try to save him. He drowned instead. Nicholas Napolitano, 23, ...
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Posted on Aug 20, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Nicole Kissel overcame cold water, cold air and powerful tides to help save a boy from drowning. Dale Ostrander, 12, of Spanaway, WA, had gone to the beach on a trip to the Long Beach peninsula which ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Lou Rosso, a 70-year-old Egg Harbor Township man, jumped into the waters off Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City recently when he saw two children struggling in the water. The accident, which took place ...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The name of the five-year-old Houston boy who drowned at the Texas City Dike Beach was released by officials Friday, reports say. The child, Fredy Lazo, drowned after slipping off a float at the Texas ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Home Just nine months after a set of twin nine-year-old girls and their father drowned when they were caught in an undertow at Texas City Dike Beach, a five-year-old whose name was not yet released ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A five-year-old Houston boy drowned after falling from an inflatable float yesterday in the same area in which three others drown just nine months earlier. The boy, whose name has not yet been ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Stover, MO couple in Camden County in after reports say they filed a false report of a drowning incident on the Missouri River at Franklin Island in ...
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Posted on May 28, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An autistic teenager may have drowned in a Singapore pond at Woodlands Town Centre on New Year's Day because he had a propensity for rolling up his t-shirt to his shoulders. Reports say that ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The parents of a child who drowned in an Indio, CA pool could face criminal charges, reports say. Although neither the family nor the deceased child have been identified by police yet, reports say ...
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Posted on May 21, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Maryland man was honored as a hero recently for jumping into a creek to save a boy from drowning. The man, Jack Severn, 71, of New Market, MD, was given a Heroism Medal from the Marine Corps League ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A helicopter pilot working for the Department of Homeland Security pleaded not guilty last month to allegations that he lied to investigators over his role in the 2005 drowning of a would-be illegal ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say a cruise passenger from the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises liner, died in Tortola, British Virgin Islands earlier this year. The man was reportedly pulled out of the sea in the area of ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Twin 9-year-old girls drowned earlier this month when they were swept by water currents near the Texas City dike, just south of Houston, TX. Reports say the girls, Alexandra and Samantha Suarez, were ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Beachgoers dragged a boogie boarder to safety in Honolulu last month, saving him from drowning when the unidentified youth got himself into trouble while on his board, reports say. The youth was in ...
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