Virginia Driver Pleads Guilty To Vehicular Manslaughter, Drunk Driving
A Virginia man will be sentenced for aggravated vehicular homicide and other serious charges after an Easter Sunday DUI car accident left one man dead.
Virginia Police Cracking Down on Texting While Driving
Virginia police officers have pulled over drivers they thought might be drunk only to find the person wasn’t intoxicated, but texting. In 2010 traffic courts in Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach handled 77 cases in which drivers were ticketed for texting while driving cases, according to an analysis of Virginia…
Many Highway Cable Barriers in North Carolina (NC) Fail to Protect Drivers
An investigation by ABC-11 in Raleigh, North Carolina (NC), shows that cable barriers along state roads are failing to do their intended job of preventing head-on collisions that injure and kill drivers and passengers. Focusing on a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 540, the station found a dozen sections of cable that were damaged, loose or…
Driver Fatigue Causes Deadly Accident On I-95 In Virginia
One person is dead and five more people in the vehicle were injured after police say a man fell asleep behind the wheel while driving on Interstate 95 early on Saturday morning. According to the Virginia State Patrol, 60-year-old Claude Hogue was driving southbound on I-95 when he nodded off and drifted off of the…
Campaign After Woman Was Killed by Police Cruiser Leads to Change in VA Law
When Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed Ashey’s Law, family members of the young woman for whom the legislation is named must have felt a world away from the icy February day in 2008 when Ashley McIntosh was killed by a speeding police cruiser at intersection of Boswell Avenue and Route 1 in Fairfax County, VA….