Enterprise Rent-A-Car chose profits over driver safety when they opted to exclude a standard safety feature from a fleet of Chevrolet Impalas they purchased between 2006 and 2008. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the nation’s largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used cars, made the move in order to save $11.5 millions of dollars in…
Sumter, South Carolina police say a 14-year-old girl was driving a car packed with children when it crashed, killing one child. Authorities report that the girl’s mother was in the passenger seat of the 1989 Buick when it hit a tree in this North Carolina border town. The negligent mother, Nicole Ford (32) was in…
Last Sunday afternoon, two Fleetwood residents died in a vehicle accident on Brownwood Road in Deep Gap, North Carolina (N.C.). According to Trooper D. Searcy of the NC Highway Patrol, a 1994 Dodge work van, which was carrying a total of 14 passengers, including the driver, was traveling south on Brownwood Road at approximately 1…
Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC) has seen an increase in car accident fatalities so far in 2009. So far this year traffic deaths have surpassed 2008’s recorded total of 17 with 19 fatalities recorded in the first half of 2009. This number takes in to account drivers and passengers as well as, motorcyclists, pedestrians and Moped…
A revealing report indicates over 200,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. However, this may be low balling the actual number of preventable deaths considering many states, including Virginia, do not have any mandatory requirements for “adverse event reporting” (i.e. preventable medical errors). Adverse events are defined differently by various…