A Raleigh woman narrowly escaped certain death as a cement truck’s drive shaft flew through her windshield smashing the glass as she drove her car down I-440 in Raleigh, North Carolina (N.C.) In what can only be described as miraculous, the woman was unharmed physically, but was certainly emotionally distraught from the run in with the cement truck. The victim,…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will soon require truck drivers to replace their paper logs with electronic logging devices (ELDs). ELDs synchronize with a truck’s engine to automatically record data such as time spent on the road, miles driven, location and engine hours in real time. As of Dec. 18, more than 3 million truckers…
Former Governor Rell said it best, “At the end of the day the goal is simple: safety and security.” Yet the rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle is proof that Amtrak as well as others involved did not put the safety and security of passengers first. None of the…
A driver from Burlington, North Carolina (NC), seriously injured an off-duty Greensboro, NC, police officer. The off-duty officer, age 28, was riding a motorcycle west on North Fisher Street in Burlington, North Carolina when the driver of a 2000 Pontiac, age 43, struck him. Helicopter transported the off-duty Greensboro Police Department officer to University of…
During the holiday season many drivers are distracted. Thoughts of dinners, shopping and family celebrations are on their mind along with all the things they need to get done to achieve them. No one can know for sure what preoccupations were on a driver’s mind recently in Norfolk, VA when she crashed into a fire…