What happened: A 52 year-old state employee has been charged with second-degree murder, DWI and crossing the center lane after slamming head-on into a mini-van and killing the other driver. The man was driving a state-owned dump truck and was on duty when the crash occurred. Police found a beer can near the truck and…
What happened: The captain of a parasailing boat has pled guilty to violating the Seaman’s Manslaughter Act in connection for the deaths of two women, who were killed off Ocean Isle Beach in August, 2009. The defendant was operating the boat, Tied High, which was owned by Ocean Isle Beach Watersports and NC Watersports. The…
New research by the University of Illinois at Chicago found that people who are intoxicated have a better chance of surviving a traumatic brain injury. Offering a possible explanation as to why drunk drivers very often survive from accidents they cause, results showed the drunker someone is, the stronger their chances are to walk away…
What happened: A worker was killed in an accident at N.C. State’s Centennial Campus near the intersection of Main Campus and Achievement Drive. Luis Javier Martinez, 39, was part of a work crew from J.F. Wilkerson Contracting in Morrisville that was digging trenches for installation of a 16-inch, 18,000-foot line of pipe. The dirt around…
What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) recently granted a two-year award of $1 million to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, Duke University, the University of Vermont, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Penn State Altoona. The purpose of the research is to develop an automated system…