Two riders who were sharing a motorcycle went to the hospital with injuries after they got hit from behind in Carolina Beach, North Carolina (NC). The rear-end collision happened at the intersection of South Lake Park Drive and Ocean Boulevard. Local police and New Hanover County law enforcement personnel responded to reports of…
In June 2011, a 22-year-old mother was parked on the side of Interstate 10 near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her GMC pickup truck had broken down and the young mother was waiting for help. In the vehicle with her were her 4-year-old daughter and 19-month-old son. The mother had set flares outside the truck as…
Even though texting and driving is against the law in North Carolina, people still engage in the dangerous behavior. According to North Carolina crash data, the number of distracted driving crashes spiked 10 percent in a five year period, with more than 54,000 accidents blamed on distracted driving, killing 177 victims. One North Carolina…
A sudden and improper lane change by a tractor-trailer driver set the stage for a fatal head-on collision in Iredell County, North Carolina (NC). The deadly two-vehicle crash happened in the Mooresville area at around 11:50 pm on March 29, 2018. According to law enforcement authorities, the driver of the tractor-trailer was traveling…
A car running out of control on the interstate north of Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), set the stage for a crash that claimed the life of a tractor-trailer driver. The deadly wreck happened near mile marker 142 on I-40, about a mile east of the exits to Sharon School Road. State troopers received…