Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• 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...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• Are Motorcycle Accidents a Health Epidemic?

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

  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...

• Automobile Accidents and Seat Belts

  Greg Owen | April 17, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The use of seat belts is mandatory nationwide with the exception of the state of New Hampshire. It has been noted that the citizens of New Hampshire do not support mandating seat belts, the sentiment being "Live Free or Die." However, there is more to consider. Clearly there are serious financial ramifications to the absence of laws mandating seat belts. According to seat-belt supporters, it...

• Inmate Stages Auto Accidents

  Greg Owen | April 06, 2007 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In March 2005, Billy Joe Johnson, 48, of Bevinsville in Floyd County, Kentucky, was arrested. Johnson was charged with assault, murder, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment in the death of Michael Stone, 27. Michael was found shot to death on August 4, 2003. Now, Mr. Johnson, who is already facing the above-referenced charges in state court, has been sentenced to an additional five years in...

• Auto Safty Measures

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...