There is not one big story line in the data that was gathered by Roadcheck 2014 – which is the yearly 72 hour safety enforcement effort across the US and managed by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. But there were several trends seen in this year’s data that…
A collision between a Hyundai Accent and Dodge Durango at U.S. 13 and Temperanceville Road on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (VA) on August 20, 2014, claimed one woman’s life and left five other people injured. This is the second fatal crash with injuries at the intersection within a week. While wrecks are…
In a terrible tragedy out of Rockingham County, Virginia, safety officials say one man is dead after being hit by a vehicle on the exit ramp of I-81 in Harrisonburg. The person who was killed was a member of a road crew and was in an active work zone at the time of the accident….
The Hanover County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office has charged a driver in a terrible crash that killed a Caroline, VA father and injured his two children. Four cars were involved in the terrible wreck that happened in Caroline off of Washington Highway near Lewiston Road on Aug. 12. The victim, a 41 year old man, died…
With today’s technology it would be hard to find a new electronic item without GPS. Most new cars have GPS with OnStar, nearly all cell phones have it and now you can even put a GPS tracker on your pet’s collar. So why do only 1% of railroad trains have GPS? That is the question…