Car and Driver Magazine conducted an experiment at an abandoned air field that demonstrated that texting while driving has a bigger impact on safety than driving drunk. That truth becomes even more chilling when you consider that 46 percent of teen drivers admit to texting while driving. If a driver is texting for 6 seconds,…
The National Safety Council recently published its annual report and North Carolina receive an overall grade of “C” for safety. The report is published each year and examines how effectively each state is addressing road safety, home and community safety, and workplace safety and if enough measures are being taken to help eliminate preventable deaths…
Keeping children safe is a parents’ number one concern. So I can only imagine the distress and agony of the parents whose children were injured and suffered fingertip amputations from a defective stroller. Graco Children’s Products has recalled about 4.7 million strollers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico after reports of six fingertip amputations, four partial-fingertip amputations…
For people that live or work along a certain street in Wytheville, Virginia (VA) the sight of twelve different trains passing through daily is no reason to be concerned. However when a train derailed and scattered 14 cars along the street that was a surprise and a reminder that railroad injuries happen more often than…
A three-vehicle wreck in Virginia Beach, VA, left one person dead and a driver facing a reckless driving charge. The deadly crash happened at the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Gravehurst Drive on the morning of August 17, 2017. Police received the first call about the collision at 6:54 am. An investigation by…