Food Network’s Marc Summers Seriously Injures Face after Vehicle Accident

More than a week ago, the Food Network star/producer Marc Summers was reportedly involved in a vehicle accident that seriously injured his face.

According to reports, the 60-year-old star, who is currently hosting The Food Network’s television show, “Unwrapped,” was riding in a passenger taxi cab in Philadelphia when the cab driver lost control of the vehicle and hydroplaned. As a result of which, Summers’ head slammed against the plastic divider between the cab’s front and back seats, which severely damaged his face. 

Fortunately for him, he did not sustain brain injury. However, he underwent a four-hour plastic surgery following the incident. Although the host was still in tremendous pain, he said that his surgeon was confident that the lengthy procedure was successful.

In an interview which was quoted herein, Summers said that everything went back into proper place and in a few weeks from now, the swelling will be gone and he’ll be a new guy.

At present, while Summers is still having difficulty chewing solid foods, he is already on a mission, and that is to prevent similar types of accidents from happening to anyone else. In fact, in his tweet quoted below, he said:

"Appreciate all the good wishes from everyone. Pain a little less each day. Will you help me in a campaign to rid cabs of plastic partitions?"

Shortly after his first tweet, he followed the same with another post saying blockades serve no purpose but to hurt people and are way too close to backseat despite seatbelts.

Meanwhile, Summers’ co-regulars at Food Network were hoping for the injured host’s fast recovery, reports said.

On the other hand, a Los Angeles personal injury attorney defines accident as a sudden and involuntary injury caused to the human body by an external factor. Certain personal injury, which is similar to the consequences of a vehicle accident, is treated in the same way as an accident.

Pilot Killed in California Plane Accident Part of Flying Doctors Organization

Authorities have finally determined that the pilot who died from a plane accident last August 2 in California was a member of Los Medicos Voladores, a Spanish word which literally means “flying doctors”.

Accordingly, the volunteer group that arranged the trip said that the 66-year-old doctor, identified as Dr. James Richard Ungar of Yreka, California, was leaving an airport near Lake Tahoe to provide medical care in a small village in Mexico when the accident occurred. Ungar was a Northern California emergency room doctor.

Reports said that Ungar had just told the two other passengers to get off the plane so that he could test its worthiness to fly. Minutes upon take off, the plane struck a hangar at the Truckee airport. Ungar was pronounced dead at the scene.

The entire organization of flying doctors is sending its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ungar, said Adrian Fenderson, a dentist and a spokesperson of the said community. Also, the organization is quite impressed with the selflessness that Ungar imposed during the last minutes of his life when he showed concern for the safety of the two other passengers of the plane.

In line with the said incident, a Los Angeles injury attorney noted that in similar cases of plane accidents, aviation law differs from other types of personal injury law. Most often, tort law is majorly implemented at the state level while in aviation law, both the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) and the National Travel Safety Board (NTSB) have their own regulations that take superiority over state laws. Moreover, other regulations like international treaties can also influence aviation law.