“You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.” -Ezra Taft Benson. It’s nearly midnight and a group of friends are getting ready to leave the pub after enjoying a few games of pool and a couple drinks. “Do I look ok to drive,” asks one young…
Orange County, Virginia (VA), sadly played host to one of eight deadly traffic crashes on commonwealth roads and highways over the weekend of September 22-24, 2017. Several were single-vehicle wrecks, but the one on U.S. 522/Zachary Taylor Highway involved a pickup truck crossing into the path of an oncoming SUV. A passenger in the SUV…
A Union Pacific railroad worker died after getting struck by a freight train in Arlington, Texas (TX). The fatal on-the-job accident happened around 11: 20 am on September 22, 2017, in the 800 block of Stadium Drive. The site of the deadly train crash is just south of Globe Life Park, where the Texas Rangers…
A concrete mixer overturned onto a minivan and sent all four people in the smaller vehicle to hospitals with injuries ranging from serious to life-threatening. The wreck happened in Concord, North Carolina (NC), at around 8:30 am on September 20, 2017. State Highway Patrol troopers responded to the scene in Cabarrus County and…
A group of teenagers sit in a school auditorium. The speaker standing in-front of them is a young professional woman. She looks out at the group and then asks, “What do you consider lethal?” Out of the many answers given, car crashes was not one of them. However, traffic crashes, are the number one killers…