What Happened: The sheriff’s office in Culpeper County, Virginia continues to investigate the death of a pedestrian, who was slammed into by a deputy’s patrol car traveling at 70 miles per hour. According to media reports, the deputy was responding to a medical emergency call when his car slammed into the woman on U.S. 29….
Did you know that there were 15,000 truck bridge strikes in the United States 2010, which caused 214 deaths and over 3,000 serious injuries? Not only are trucks striking bridges a serious problem, it is also a problem that could be getting worse because of the growing popularity of GPS navigational devices. Just last week,…
A hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Kecoughtan Road and LaSalle Avenue in Hampton, Virginia (VA), on the night of Oct. 5, 2012, sent three women to hospitals with minor to severe injuries. One victim suffered brain and head injuries that left her with short-term memory loss and persistent headaches. Another woman had her right…
The people steering both boats that collided head-on in Banks Channel between Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, North Carolina (NC), shortly before dawn on Oct. 5, 2012, are likely to face criminal charges for boating while intoxicated. A total of five people were aboard the two small recreational boats when they crashed, and all wound up…
What Happened: Asheville police have arrested a suspect in the hit-and-run accident that left another man injuredon a crosswalk. Over the weekend, police say Ian Mather was walking his family across a street in front of REI in Biltmore Park in downtown Asheville, NC. As his family made their way across the crosswalk, Mather was hit by a driver who drove up on the…