An Amtrak train traveling from New York City to Miami slammed into a freight train in the early morning hours of Feb. 4, killing at least two people and injured 116 others. Thousands of gallons of fuel also were spilled. Amtrak stated that the train was carrying eight crew and 139 passengers when it struck a CSX…
In October 2010, four Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets sophomores were riding in an SUV driven by an older cadet, on their way to a picnic when the driver began driving the vehicle “wildly” in an effort to scare the younger cadets, in what was later determined by the school as part of a hazing…
Distracted driving has become one of the most common causes of vehicle accidents, responsible for thousands of crashes each year that seriously injure and kill victims. One of the main distracted driving behaviors is cell phone use. Texting, reading emails, accessing social media sites, and even just talking on a cell phone can cause a…
Hundreds of thousands of closed head injuries occur each year in the United States. Two of the most-common causes are traffic accidents and falls. Very simply, and as explained on the U.S. Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus website, “A closed head injury means you received a hard blow to the head from striking an object, but…
The driver who hit and killed a road crew worker on I-95 south of Petersburg, Virginia (VA), admitted to looking down and taking her eyes off the road in the seconds before the fatal collision. This latest deadly distracted driving crash happened at around 11:15 am on February 3, 2018. The deceased victim…