A driver speeding through a parking lot in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (NC), seriously injured five pedestrians just before noon on March 14, 2018. The collision illustrates the risks of what federal traffic safety officials a call “nontraffic” crashes, as well as the problem of unlicensed and uninsured drivers. Local police responded to…
On Sept. 8, 2017, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, 39-year-old Erin Kaplan was driving her Audi station wagon on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg. In the vehicle with her were her son, two daughters, and her mother. As Ms. Kaplan was driving, her vehicle was suddenly slammed into by a 22,000-pound food truck when…
According to state statistics, there has been almost 250 car crashes on Rockford Street (U.S. 601) in Mount Airy over the past four years. In addition to numerous victims injured, the accidents resulted in three fatalities. The North Carolina Department of Transportation says that the crash rate in this area is almost twice as high…
According to statistics from the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, there are almost 250,000 people in this country who live with a spinal cord injury. Tragically, that number increases by 12,000 more spinal cord injury victims each year. The majority of these injuries are caused by some type of trauma to the vertebral column. Normally,…