The wreck was witnessed and police immediately arrived on the scene. There was a truck and car involved only the truck flipped. The crash looked bad but luckily everyone was alert, and it could have been much worse. Highway 33 in Pitt County was closed down for about an hour and a half Wednesday following…
When my colleague Emily Mapp Brannon heard about the accident involving the team bus of the King’s Fork field hockey team, she decided to check into how many crashes involve school buses and injuries to children. The answer found: too many. After briefly describing several school bus accidents that occurred early this week, Emily concludes…
A report that commercial jet maker Airbus did not act to fix a sensor design problem that may have led to June’s deadly crash of Air France Flight 447 seem too bad to be true. If this is true, the evidence would show that Airbus first learned in 2002 that the airspeed sensors it installed…
A man was hit and killed by an Amtrak train in Cary, North Carolina (NC). Federal Railroad Safety Administration investigators have not yet released the cause of the accident that cost the Cary man his life. However, the investigators have told reporters that the man was on the Amtrak train tracks at the time of…
A crash on Monday night in New Bern has sent two babies and four others to the hospital. The Highway Patrol reports three vehicles were involved in the crash on Howell Road at Williams Road in New Bern around 8:00 Monday night. The New Bern Sun Journal says a Mustang ran a stop sign on…