Automobile Accidents

• Car Crash Due to Road Rage

  Greg Owen | October 12, 2007 5:23 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  There is a great commercial that I have seen recently. It depicts two men in a supermarket pushing carts. One man is directly behind the other and is impatiently rolling his eyes and tapping his foot waiting for the man in front to move faster. After finally going around the guy in front he turns the isle only to find another man with a cart, and the unnecessary drama begins all over again. Then...

• Congress Addressing Teen Driver Deaths

  Greg Owen | June 24, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On June 6 a bipartisan resolution was introduced in Congress that would establish the third week in October as National Teen Driver Safety Week. The numbers related to this issue are staggering. In 2005 alone 7,500 drivers between 15 and 20 were involved in fatal car crashes in the United States. The majority of these accidents can be attributed to inexperienced drivers who have a tendency to...

• Hit and Run Driver Injures Motorcyclist

  Greg Owen | June 06, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Friday, two miles east of the Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve, an unknown driver is accused of causing a motorcyclist to run off the road. According to witnesses, the hit and run vehicle was dark in color. It appears, the driver of the hit and run vehicle attempted to illegally overtake two motorcycles while they were on a curve. Suddenly, oncoming traffic appeared,...

• Automobile and Train Collide

  Greg Owen | July 21, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A truck driver was killed and an Amtrack train was derailed when they collided in Plant City, Florida on Tuesday. The train rolled past the truck as it tried to stop, and the truck burst into flames on impact. Nine of the 133 train passengers were treated at the local hospital."The Amtrak train No. 92, on the Silver Star line en route from Miami to New York City, was headed westbound to Tampa...

• Truck Accident Brings Bay Area Freeway Down

  Greg Owen | May 01, 2007 11:54 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On Sunday, a tanker-truck became an inferno. A truck explosion actually melted a connector ramp just east of the Bay Bridge. The freeway, which has fallen on top of another freeway, was built in the 1950's and was retrofitted in the 1990. "...rather than rebuild the ramp according to already existing blueprints, engineers will likely overhaul the interchange to conform to today's more stringent...

• Are Motorcycle Accidents a Health Epidemic?

  Greg Owen | April 27, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in Asia, motorcycle accidents have become a public health epidemic. It seems that people from low and medium income families use motorcycles as their mode of transport. They even pick their children up from school on motorcycles. According to polls taken by WHO, 1.2 million people die of road traffic accidents every year, with 40 percent of the...

• Auto Safty Measures

  Greg Owen | March 07, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  What would you say if I told you that if a driver perceives the lane that he is driving on to be wide that driver, in all likelyhood, will drive much faster. It's true, and in Aliso Viejo they proved it.According to John Whitman, city engineer " Since the city incorporated in 2001, the city has re-striped several streets to narrow down the lanes. By doing so, drivers tend to slow down because...

• Too Many of Our Youth die in Auto Accidents

  Greg Owen | March 02, 2007 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Too many avoidable, tragic accidents occur each year involving the youngest of our drivers. Due to that fact, La Porte County Sheriff Mike Mollenhauer has launched a program called STOPPED, which is nationwide. The parents who participate in the program are given a sticker to put on the vehicle driven by their child - up to the age of 21. If that vehicle is pulled over by the police, their...

• Blood Needed Due to Traffic Accidents

  Greg Owen | February 26, 2007 10:47 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  The use of refrigerated blood storage has been around since 1915. Prior to that, the transference of blood was vain to vain only. With the number of surgeries, traffic accidents and the like, it is a much needed resource. The only thing more important than the ability to store the blood is having the blood to store. With that said, donating blood isn't always on the forefront of people's...

• Staged Auto Accidents

  Greg Owen | February 08, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Staged automobile accidents are a big business. It is often quite profitable until the perpetrators are caught, and as a rule, they are eventually caught. Ten suspects, including a doctor and two attorneys were caught and were arrested by Houston police. There are three others still on the loose. These arrests came after a two-year investigation. This type of scheme cost citizens and...