Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Road Texting: An Accident Waiting to Happen

  Greg Owen | February 04, 2008 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Along with the ability to send text messages while driving comes the likelihood of more traffic accidents. Psychologists at the University of Utah say that texting behind the wheel is 50 percent more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving. Think about it, if someone was to use a typewriter or a laptop while driving it would be clearly insane. Although, the devise is smaller,...

• Husband & Wife Die Bizarre in Car Crash

  Greg Owen | June 19, 2007 12:21 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a bizarre chain of events a couple died in a car crash in Montana last Thursday. The husband and wife were driving in 2 separate cars with the wife following the husband. Initally, the man crashed his vehicle on Montana Highway 2 and rolled it to the opening of the Rockin' the Rivers concert venue. His wife, who had been driving behind him, then pulled her vehicle onto the shoulder of the...

• Vehicle Accidents Involving Deer Are on the Rise

  Greg Owen | February 02, 2007 5:30 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As awful a thought as it is, on the U.S. roads, many accidents occur when drivers strike deer. Last year alone, State Farm Insurance reported a 6 percent increase in their claims. Depending on the area, that number appears to be at the low end of the scale. It is estimated by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions occur each year in the U.S.,...

• Four Die in Crash Involving Amtrack

  Susy Owen | July 20, 2007 11:49 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Monday, an Amtrack train carrying 161 passengers collided with a vehicle. The collision was a result of the driver of the vehicle making a decision to drive around the crossing gate, witnesses reported. When you hear stories like this, it seems, truth can be stranger than fiction!Most unfortunately, the driver caused the deaths of three other people besides himself. Thankfully there were no...

• Another Drunk Driver Kills

  Greg Owen | August 19, 2007 7:48 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Cleveland Lloyd Antonio Mitchell, 54, of Durham, N.C., was driving in the early hours of the morning with his children, ages 18 and 21, when their vehicle was hit by another vehicle, which was driven by a drunk driver, Delvin L. Ridgle. As a result, Lloyd Antonio Mitchell died at the scene.According to Sgt. F.L. Tyler of Virginia State Police "Delvin L. Ridgle, 27, a sergeant with the U.S....

• Car Crash Due to Road Rage

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...