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I-95 Accident Near Richmond Claims 12 Year Old

Posted on Jun 30, 2009

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch

By Michael Martz

Published: June 29, 2009

A 12-year-old Maryland girl was killed this morning and her mother was critically injured in a single-vehicle wreck that closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 for hours south of Petersburg.

Shiane Dixon of Boyds, Md., died at the scene after she was thrown from the vehicle and was struck by a tractor-trailer, State Police said.

The girl was riding without a seat belt in the cargo area of a 2000 Lincoln Navigator that ran off the right side of the southbound interstate road about 4:39 a.m., State Police said. Shel was thrown into the northbound lane of the interstate after the driver overcorrected, struck the left guardrail, and overturned. She was struck by a truck that was traveling northbound.

The driver of the vehicle, Diane P. Nixon, of Boyds, Md., suffered life-threatening injuries and was flown by a State Police Med-Flight helicopter to VCU Medical Center. She was wearing a seat belt.

Nixon’s 16-year-old son, Hassan, was partially ejected from the vehicle and taken to VCU Medical Center by ambulance with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening. He was wearing a seat belt.

Two other passengers, Jordan Lusane, 18, and Taylor Scott, 12, were taken by ambulance to Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Lusane also is a member of the Dixon family, and Scott is a family friend. Both were wearing seat belts.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.

The wreck closed the northbound lanes and one southbound lane of I-95 at Exit 45, where the highway crosses U.S. Route 301.

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I was test-driving a BMW in Richmond. Soon after leaving the dealer's lot another driver ran a stop sign and T-bonedthe BMW. I was hurt pretty bad. My hospital bills are already over $100,000, and I will likely miss 6 months of work. My lawyer said the other driver had minimum liabilty limits of $25,000 on his insurance policy, but that won't be enough to even cover my medical costs. Am I stuck?

My teenage daughter was injured in an auto accident recently and was not at fault. The accident occurred in Richmond on I-95/I-64. The other car was driven by the owner's nephew, and because the nephew lived with the owner and was not listed as a potential driver of the car when the application for insurance was made, the insurance company is denying coverage. Can the insurance company do thiseven whenthe owner of the other car paid the insurancepremiums on time?