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Los Angeles Truck Accident Pile Up Injures 17

A truck accident in Los Angeles injured 17 people in late October, according to the Los Angeles Times. The accident involved a dump truck, a sedan and a Metro bus. According to officials from the Los Angeles Fire Department, the unoccupied dump truck rolled down a hill and collided with the bus that was heading westbound on Hollywood Boulevard on the morning of October 23. The bus was pushed into the other lane facing oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with the BMW sedan. The female driver of the sedan was trapped in her vehicle for over 20 minutes before responders were able to free her. The woman and her passenger, her daughter, were rushed to a nearby hospital, along with the bus driver and 14 passengers on the bus. The accident remains under investigation. The outcome of this accident could have been much worse; thankfully, no one was killed….
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Elderly Driver Crashes Car into SoCal Target; Injures 2 Shoppers/San Diego Car Accident Attorney Weighs In

Two shoppers at a Target store were injured, and certainly shocked, when a car crashed into the store and struck them on October 26, according to ABC News. The victims, identified as a 29-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man, suffered serious injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital. The woman suffered head trauma, and the man broke his hip. The driver, a 72-year-old woman, crashed approximately 50 to 60 feet into the store through emergency exit doors into the electronics department where the victims were shopping. Accident investigators in Canoga Park, Los Angeles suspect the driver was coming down a parking garage off-ramp and drove straight through the doors without ever hitting the brakes. “In looking at it, it is like threading a needle, but if you look at how the street is laid out, there is an intersection right before those doors where one can see how an…
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FDA Probes Facility after Meningitis Outbreak

Medication shipped by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) recently was contaminated with fungus, causing a fungal meningitis outbreak causing 31 deaths in 17 states. In October, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigated the conditions at NECC following reports from the Massachusetts Department of Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported more than 400 cases of meningitis linked to the medication, which was an injectable steroid painkiller. Many of the patients using the drug suffered from back pain and other types of joint pain. The FDA and Massachusetts Department of Health have both reported unsanitary conditions at the NECC facility that may have contributed to the contamination. Federal investigators are looking into other medicines produced by the company to see if they may be contaminated as well. NECC has a responsibility to the public to keep its facility sanitary to prevent outbreaks like this. For…
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