Not all injuries are visible. Cuts and bruises look terrible when they first happen, but they usually heal quickly, leaving no long-lasting pain. In fact, they often look worse than they feel. Injuries that can cause long-lasting pain, such as whiplash from car accidents, often do not leave any visible signs at all. Even worse,…
Approximately seven people were injured in a car accident near Lake Mead, according to a KTNV July 2017 report. The accident happened in the later part of July in 2017 on a Saturday. About seven people were involved in a two-vehicle car accident on Lakeshore Road within the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. After the…
A rural Nevada woman was injured in an SUV-train accident in January of 2017, according to the Ames Tribune. She was hospitalized after the SUV she was driving was struck by a Union Pacific train. The train then pushed her SUV about 300 feet down the tracks. The crash happened at about 8 p.m. at…
Rural Nevada roads have the sixth highest fatality rate in the nation, according to a June 2017 article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A study prepared by a nonprofit traffic research group called TRIP found that the state average is 2.77 fatalities for each 100 million miles traveled on non-interstate, rural roads. In Nevada, about…
According to a June 2017 article in The Record-Courier, a high school student reached a milestone achievement by graduating after sustaining a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. In 2010, while attending a local Ely high school as a freshman, the now 22-year-old was attacked by another student. The attack forced her into a coma-like state…