A hit-and-run accident involving a coal truck in rural Kanawha County, West Virginia (WV), cost a man one of his legs. The collision occurred on the night of June 4, 2014, but the details were only recently released to the press. State police have been unable to track down the driver of the commercial truck, and…
A man and a young girl lost their lives after being run over by a Norfolk Southern railroad freight train on a rail bridge near Chilhowie, Virginia (VA), on the afternoon of June 29, 2014. Another boy who had been on the trestle with the deceased victims appeared to escape injury by slipping into the…
Beth Yos of Kailua, Hawaii, was traveling with her husband and 8-year-old daughter on I-81 when a block of cement suddenly crashed through her Chrysler minivan windshield. The debris, as it turned out, was from an overpass near the Draper exit. The boom of a military construction vehicle, carted by a tractor-trailer, struck the overpass…
The most important piece of safety equipment that prevents children from being injured in car accidents is a safety seat. It is so important that hospitals won’t even let you go home with your new baby until a safety car seat check is done. So it is disheartening to hear that Graco Children’s Products is…
A trooper of the West Virginia State Police Parkways Authority was hit by a vehicle on Thursday, June 12th, in Mercer County. Early Thursday morning, D.R. White parked his cruiser on the shoulder of Interstate 7 north, at the 15.5 mile marker near Athens to remove debris near the middle of the roadway. Lt….