North Carolina Toddler Survives Shocking Head Injury From Pressure Was
A small child in North Carolina was rushed to the hospital after being impaled with a pressure washer nozzle. The little boy should fully recover from his brain injury.
Nurse at Chapel Hill Nursing Home Charged With Murder Following Patient’s Morphine Overdose Death
North Carolina (NC) state law enforcement officials on August 9, 2010, handed down nearly three dozen indictments against a former nursing home nurse for charges ranging from patient abuse to second-degree murder. The currently jailed nurse is accused of administering overdoses of morphine and other painkilling opiates to patients at Brithaven of Chapel Hill in…
Restaurant Ornament Falls on Customer, Causes Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Do not just watch what you eat, but watch where you eat. A 46-year-old man was enjoying a meal at a restaurant when a four-pound ornament made of hemp fell from the ceiling and hit him in the head. Immediately following the incident, the man seemed okay, even joking about what happened. However, the subtle…
Drunk Driver Who Severely Injured Pedestrian in Hit-and-Run Convicted in Virginia Beach
Drunk and apparently distracted by text message coming in on his cell phone, Virginia Beach, VA, resident Dorek Emanuel Hayes hit Mary Edwards as the 72-year-old woman attempted to cross Honeygrove Road in the early evening of December 30, 2009. Edwards suffered “broken legs and ankles, cracked ribs and bruised lungs” in the hit-and-run accident…
Fatal Indianapolis Wedding Bus Crash Involved Run Red Light, Unlicensed Driver
The newswires buzzed this past Sunday and Monday with report of a supposedly happy ending to story that began with a deadly traffic accident in downtown Indianapolis on the afternoon of June 5, 2010. A chartered shuttle bus carrying a wedding party and guests collided with a Chevy Yukon, injuring more than a dozen people…