Actress Selma Blair was involved in a car accident with a UPS truck. Fortunately, the wreck was only a minor fender bender, and Blair was not harmed in the accident. She was on her way to an appointment at a home birthing clinic in Los Angeles when the accident happened, according to babble.com. We are…
Attention Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA residents: June is National Home Safety Month. According to the Virginia Beach Fire Department, it is always helpful to have a plan in place to decrease panic when something goes wrong. For example, one contributor to injuries from Virginia house fires is a gas or charcoal grill accident. People…
Monday, June 20, 2011, was the first day of summer for many Virginia children, and already in Newport News, Virginia (VA), a child has been struck by a vehicle that left the scene on Warwick Boulevard. The child, identified only as a high-school aged male, sustained injuries, but there was no immediate word on his…
In a somewhat ironic twist, Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed early on Monday, June 20, 2011, in a fiery car crash. It wasn’t one of his daredevil stunts that Dunn was so famous for that killed him, but simply driving home from a party. Sadly, a passenger was also killed, and speed may have…
Even before Virginia lawmaker enacted a “move over” law to protect emergency responders and motorists, I would instinctively change lanes whenever I approached a disabled vehicle or an emergency vehicle stopped on the side of the road. So why do so many people ignore the requirement to create space or slow down and hit people…