A 47 year old St. Charles County mother was vacationing with her family at the Lake of the Ozarks over the 4th of July holiday. The family rented a 26 foot Bayliner deck boat from a local boat rental company for a day on the water. The boat traffic on the Lake that holiday weekend was significant and there were …
Christopher Geldmacher of Sauter Sullivan law firm represented a 44-year-old man from Highland, Illinois that was involved in a commercial vehicle accident in which his vehicle was rear-ended by a commercial truck. The man was driving his Ford F-150 on Interstate 270 South and had to slow down because traffic was backed up ahead. A commercial truck directly behind him …
A young, recently married couple from a small town in Southern Illinois was faced with uncertainty after the husband was involved in a terrible truck accident. The husband drives a truck for a living, and was travelling on Highway 57 near Effingham, Illinois, when he had a tire blow out on his tractor-trailer. He put on his flashers and pulled …
An X-ray technician in his late 30’s was rear ended in an auto accident in Tennessee in October of 2011. He was stopped at an exit ramp off a highway, waiting for traffic to clear to make his turn, when the driver of the other vehicle hit him from behind at a high rate of speed. The impact of the …
In June, 2014, a high level executive with a financial services firm was injured in a rear end car accident in St. Louis, Missouri, and suffered injuries to his neck and back, including a disc herniation in his cervical spine. Immediately following the accident, he was shaken up but thought he would be fine. After a day or so, he …
A 63 year old woman who works as a home health worker was driving northbound on Highway 157 in Collinsville, Illinois. Suddenly, a large motorist assistance vehicle driving southbound attempted to make a left turn in front of her without yielding and struck the woman’s vehicle almost head-on. She was taken to Anderson Hospital by ambulance, and where she was …
A 30-year-old male motorcycle rider was involved in a head-on collision after a truck made a left hand turn in front of him traveling 55-60 mph in Jefferson County, Missouri. The victim unconscious and unresponsive at the scene was life-flighted by helicopter to the hospital. He suffered from road rash, abrasions, a torn rotator cuff, shoulder, head, neck, back, leg, …
In March 2019, a contractor finished a job at a person’s home and prepared to draw up the final invoice for the work. He sat down in a chair on the owner’s back patio to do the paperwork, and the chair collapsed, causing him to fall straight down onto his tailbone. He was in pain from his injuries, so he …
A 39-year-old man from Madison, Illinois was driving in Granite City when a 17-year-old driver tried to make a left turn without yielding to oncoming traffic and ran head-on into the man’s vehicle. The impact of the collision caused fractures to the man’s spine and right shoulder. He was taken by ambulance to St. Louis University Hospital where he had …
Attorney Christopher Geldmacher of Sauter Sullivan, represented a 48 year old business owner from Barnhart, Missouri who was the passenger in a vehicle struck by a 17 year old negligent driver in North St. Louis County. The client went to the ER, and then followed up with a chiropractor. The chiropractor ordered an MRI that revealed disc herniations and stenosis …