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So far, 2012 is turning out to be the year of the Philadelphia hit and run. Earlier this week, we wrote about a hit and run on New Year’s Eve where a party-goer struck another set of party goers in Folcroft sending a man to the hospital with serious injuries.

Now, in even more tragic news, we’re writing about a triple hit and run that killed a disabled women in a wheelchair. So what exactly is a triple hit and run?

Two Hungarian tourists were killed last year when a tugboat crashed into a Ride the Ducks duck boat that had stalled in the middle of the Delaware River. The parents of the victims sued both the tugboat operator and Ride the Ducks for wrongful death.

A judge’s recent ruling in the criminal case of Matthew Devlin, the pilot of the tugboat, will surely bolster the family’s Ride the Ducks wrongful death lawsuit.

Tianle Li is charged with poisoning and killing her husband Xiaoye Wang. Now Wang's family has sued University Medical Center and Bristol Meyers-Squibb in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Li was charged with the murder of her husband four months ago, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. The couple was going through a contentious divorce. Wang thought he had things under control, but on the day the divorce was to be finalized, Wang checked himself into University Medical Center in Princeton with abdominal pains and numbness in his hands and feet.

The family of Bryan Nevins has sued Langhorne special-care facility Woods Services and caregiver Stacey Strauss in a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit.

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in damages stemming from the death of Nevins, a 20-year old autistic man and resident at the facility.

Last summer, Nevins and several other residents were taken on a group trip to Sesame Place. As the group returned to Woods Services, Strauss was in charge of unloading Nevins and another resident from the van, reports the Daily News.

The parents of the 11-year old girl who died last month in a Ferris wheel accident have sued Morey's Piers, the operators of the ride.

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Abiah Jones was on a field trip to Morey's Piers in Wildwood with her fifth-grade class. During the trip, the girl boarded the Big Wheel, a 156-foot high Ferris wheel, by herself. As the Ferris wheel reached its apex, Jones somehow fell out of her carriage and plummeted to her death.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completed its investigation into the deadly Ride the Ducks accident that killed two Hungarian tourists by finding fault with both the tug boat operator that struck the duck boat as well as the operators of the duck boat.

In July 2010, a tugboat pushed a barge into a stalled duck boat in the middle of the Delaware River. As the vessels collided, many of the 35 duck boat passengers were thrown into the river. Two Hungarian tourists drowned and many others were injured.

Eleven-year old Abiah Jones was riding alone on a 156-foot Wildwood Ferris wheel when she fell to her death at the ride's apex. Now her parents have hired an attorney and are claiming that "someone is responsible" for their daughter's death reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jones, a fifth-grader, was on a class trip with PleasanTech Academy to Mariner's Landing Pier in Wildwood when she boarded the Ferris wheel. The Inquirer reports that Jones was both old enough and tall enough to ride the Ferris wheel, though she rode alone.

The family of Daviay Legrand, the 4-year old boy who was killed after being hit by a police car, is set to receive $600,000 after the City of Allentown settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the boy's mother. The lawsuit stems from a 2007 incident where two Allentown police cruisers collided, and then struck and killed Legrand reports the Express-Times.

According to the terms of the settlement, the City of Allentown admitted no fault in the incident and agreed to settle only to avoid the cost of further litigation. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski even described the incident as a "tragic accident" reports the Express-Times.

Leonel Trejo, an experienced bull rider, was trampled to death after falling from his bull during a rodeo at New Castle, Delaware. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Trejo was thrown from his bull after riding the bull for a minute and was stomped on the chest by the bull.

The Inquirer reports that police are currently investigating the incident to determine the exact cause of Leonel Trejo's death. The police have already stated that Trejo was not wearing any protective equipment at the time of the accident.

Another recent lawsuit was filed against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over the way it has handled cases of alleged sexual abuse. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bristol Township local Daniel Neill contended that Reverend Joseph J. Gallagher, who is currently on administrative leave, repeatedly sexually abused him while he was at St. Mark's school.

But Neill ended up killing himself after the archdiocese did not believe that the priest molested him during the time he served as an altar boy at the church in 1980 and 1981. "It's a wrongful death is what it is," said Jeff Anderson, one of the personal injury attorneys for Neill's family.