National Work Zone Awareness Week spanned Monday through Friday, April 7-11, 2014. Proof of the need to remind every car, truck, bus, SUV and motorcycle operator to slow down, move over and eliminate all distractions while cruising through stretches of highway construction and repair comes from two separate April 9 accidents in the same I-97 work…
A nightmare scenario played out in real life on April 9, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NC). According to police and witness accounts, a woman driving a Nissan Pathfinder hit a pedestrian near the intersection of North Cleveland Avenue and E. 25th Street then drove on for almost 3 miles with the man trapped under the…
Tractor-trailer operators can cause serious, sometimes fatal, crashes when they change lanes or turn without making sure that no cars are close to their rigs. One of the more recent lessons about the damage a big rig can do when driven without the utmost care and caution comes from an April 9, 2014, wreck on…
First responder officials told a US Senate hearing this week that large cities and small towns are not ready for a derailment disaster on the scale of the one that happened last year in Quebec. In that incident, part of the town was destroyed and 47 people died. This hearing was the second on Capitol…
Distracted driving appears to be the cause of a fatal pedestrian accident in Arlington, Virginia (VA). As first reported by Washington, DC, television station NBC 4 on February 25, 2014, a dump truck hit and killed a 39-year-old mother of three young children on Little Falls Road. The woman was helping one her kids get…