By Heath Hamacher  hhamacher@nclawyersweekly.com   Five years after the incident, the family of a then-8-year-old boy who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a broken leg when he was struck by a car while crossing the road after getting off ...

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By Heath Hamacher  hhamacher@nclawyersweekly.com A Wake County jury has awarded $87,000 to a woman who, along with her 3-year-old son, was struck by a vehicle while walking near the parking lot of a Zebulon Walmart.   Ellis Boyle of Knott & ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A lawsuit filed against a North Carolina police officer who fatally struck a pedestrian while responding to a call should not be allowed to proceed, the state Court of Appeals ruled, saying there is no evidence the ...

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  State laws require all drivers to yield the right-of-way to any pedestrians passing through a marked crosswalk, but bicyclists don’t qualify as “pedestrians” for the purposes of those laws, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in ...

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