The jury found that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was 75 percent liable and the company that manages the station, Modern Facilities Services of East Hanover, was 25 percent liable. When asked for a statement, a Port Authority spokesman said that the organization did not wish to comment on whether or not they would appeal the verdict.

The decision was made after the woman’s lawyer was able to convince the jury that the elbow injury prevented the doctor from practicing as a gynecologist and forced her to send patients away. He said that the injury, which the doctor suffered after slipping on a rubber mat and falling on her right arm, took an immediate six hour surgery to stabilize her fractures with screws and wiring.

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Police said they did not expect to file any charges against the 51-year-old motor vehicle driver, because preliminary investigation did not reveal any impairment or criminal intent on his behalf. Authorities said the driver, a man from Bogota, N.J., was cooperative. As of Thursday, police were still investigating the vehicle accident.

Gooden, who had his best years with the Mets and the Yankees, was involved in a two-car crash at about 9 in the morning in the Franklin Lakes area. Police report that a child was in his vehicle at the time of the accident, causing him to be charged with child endangerment as well as driving under the influence of a drug.

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If the new law passes, officers ticketing drivers following an accident will check off the cause of the distraction from a list, which will include boxes with labels such as:

• Hair grooming
• Eating
• Changing the radio
• Reading
• Attending to a pet
• Operating a fax machine

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Under the current law, adults are allowed to go without seat belts if they’re sitting in rear seats. The new law will require everyone in a vehicle to be wearing a seat belt. However, critics are unhappy that the law is a secondary offense, meaning that officers will need another reason to pull over vehicles containing passengers who aren’t buckled up.

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Both women lost toddlers to falling television sets, and hope to convince lawmakers that such products should be made safer for children. They believe that home furniture that could fall and injure children should come with a warning and instructions for parents on how to fix the furniture to the floor.

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The heavy rain and cold weather over the weekend combined to produce ice on roads in both states. Dozens of accidents and injuries occurred as a result of the icy road conditions, including a bus accident that sent 10 passengers to the hospital. New Jersey police had to shut down segments of Interstates 78, 80, and 287 because of the abysmal conditions.

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Over the past 15 years, 76,000 pedestrians have been killed in automobile accidents. Additionally, the number of accidents is on the rise. Pedestrian accidents are particularly common in New Jersey: about 130 pedestrians have died in the first 10 months of 2009, a 21% increase over the total from the same period last year.

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So far, New Jersey, New York, California, and Florida have all required seat belts to be placed in school buses. Texas has passed a law requiring them as of 2010. Most states employ school buses without seat belts, putting the children who rely on them for transportation at risk in the eventuality of an accident.

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The accident occurred at about 4:20 in the morning on December 5, on Route 17. The two semis apparently hit each other due to slowed traffic around a construction zone. The driver of the Coca-Cola truck was tragically killed, while the driver of the other truck was uninjured.

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