“March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and a good time to help protect young athletes from suffering long-lasting or permanent effects from concussions.” Dr. Joel Brenner, who directs the Sports Medicine Program at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), opened a March 9, 2010 Virginian-Pilot editorial with this true, but incomplete,…
Three people suffered serious injuries due to a major car wreck at the intersection of Old Forge Road and Presidential Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA). Sadly, one of the victims was a child. View Larger Map Reports indicate a car and an SUV approached the intersection, but the car was driving far too fast…
The term “runaway train” gets used so often to describe situations people have lost control over that the actual pain, suffering, injuries and death an actual runaway can cause goes unrecognized. The tragic reality occurred March 24, 2010 in Oslo, Norway, when cars broke free from a freight train, rolled downhill and out of control…
Two men on their way home from McDowell Fire & Rescue College were killed in a North Carolina car accident on US 221 last Sunday. According to N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper Thomas Brewer, 23-year-old Jeremy Gordon Bolick of Lenoir and 20-year-old Charles Thomas Wright of Blowing Rock were driving in Bolick’s Mustang when the driver…
Police say that an estimated $200,000 of damage was done by a North Carolina truck driver involved in a serious big rig accident this morning. The accident took place at around 6 am and just before the morning commute on I-65 when the truck, which was carrying 16 tons of clothing, turned on its side…