If recommendations the National Transportation Safety Board issued to other federal agencies on Dec. 8 are fully implemented, significantly fewer old, poorly repaired and irresponsibly operated buses will be on America’s highways. The NTSB has asked a long list of regulators to conduct more frequent and fuller inspections of motor coaches–vehicles such as Greyhound buses…
By mid-September, Virginia (VA) Game and Inland Fisheries officials already knew that 2009 was an uncommonly dangerous year for boaters and users of personal watercraft such as Jet Skis. The agency released statistics showing that 124 people had died, disappeared or been hospitalized because of accidents involving boats and watercraft. Since then, several more people…
Another horrible train accident took place at the intersection of Ellis Road and Angier Avenue in Durham, North Carolina (NC). Two children died when an Amtrak train slammed into the SUV carrying the children and their mother, according to the News Observer. The mother is currently being treated at Duke University Hospital. There are many questions…
Two separate accidents took place in Charlotte, NC which killed one person and sent another one to hospital with serious injuries. The first accident happened at around 9 p.m. Wednesday in Queen City Drive near Gateway Boulevard. Jason Havard, 31 was in a motorcycle when it swerved off the center line and off the roadway. …
The Virginia Department of Transportation is utilizing a computer model to try and prioritize road and highway construction/renovation projects in Hampton Roads. If you’ve ever experienced the agonizing delays driving from Hampton to Richmond or Norfolk to Williamsburg, you fully appreciate the need for road renovation and expansion. So far, the model has produced some interesting, if not puzzling results. Widening…