According to the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, two separate motor vehicle accidents in Mineral Wells sent three victims to area hospitals for medical treatment on Thursday, April 21, 2011. The accidents occurred on I-77, slowing traffic for over an hour. The first accident was a single-vehicle motorcycle crash that happened at approximately 3:10 p.m. that…
A Union Pacific conductor who suffered career-ending herniated lower disc injuries when the Union Pacific freight train he was crewing derailed after colliding with a tanker truck south of Minco, Oklahoma (OK) has been awarded $1.75 million to cover his medical treatment expenses and lost wages. The accident in which the man became disabled occurred…
It has been one year since the Massey mine disaster, which left 29 West Virginian miners dead and others injured. It is considered the worst mining accident of the last four decades, and on Tuesday, the mining company halted production and held a moment of silence for the victims of the explosion. A year after…
According to Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) ,police, a fatal motor vehicle accident closed a busy intersection of S. Military Highway early Thursday morning, April 21, 2011. The VA traffic accident occurred at approximately 1:55 a.m. at the intersection of Military Highway and Sparrow Road. A Ford F-150 pick-up truck, occupied by a driver and two passengers,…
For the second time in less than a month, BNSF rail employees have lost their lives while on the job. The latest fatal accident for the second largest freight railroad in the United States occurred on April 17, 2011, near the town of McPherson, Iowa (IA). The deadly rear-end collision between a coal train and…