The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Rail Division recently hosted a rail safety summit in Chapel Hill. Attended by over one hundred law enforcement officers, public safety advocates and government officials, the goal of the summit was to try to come up with solutions to decrease the number of railroad accidents, particularly railroad crossing accidents,…
Police in Wilmington, NC say that a two-car accident early this morning was caused by one driver running a red light. The accident, which occurred on South 17th Street and Wooster Street, led to several road closures for the remainder of the morning commute. A spokesperson with the Wilmington Police Department said the driver was…
Even police officers can be injured by a drunk driver. If a drunk driver is not even cognizant enough to avoid a police officer, what chance do you stand. According to police, the at-fault driver was driving down Independence Boulevard in VA Beach and made a left onto Euclid Road when he struck a vehicle; the driver then…
The high rate of deaths attributed to misdiagnoses in medicine could be addressed if the problem was more accurately reported, according to a new study.vvAccording to the research, published in the British Medical Journal of Quality and Safety, shows that diagnostic error is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for between 40,000…
Police in Wilmington, NC say that a bike rider was killed in a terrible hit-and-run accident earlier this month. The deadly wreck took place a little after 10 p.m. on a weeknight when police say a 23-year-old college student hit 27-year-old Zachary Paul Tyler from behind and then fled the scene of the accident. Police…