A collision between a motorcycle and an SUV in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), left the motorcycle rider dead. The fatal crash at the intersection of High Street and Jamestown Avenue happened a few minutes before 8 am on May 5, 2017. According to police, the motorcyclist was traveling west on High Street when he…
A 46-year-old man and his 12-year-old son were killed in a tractor-trailer accident in Winchester, Va. last week. The truck driver, a 55-year-old Georgia man, has been charged with reckless driving in the fatal crash. According to details released by law enforcement, the traffic had slowed down on Interstate 81, near mile marker 307, in…
It was recently the 80th anniversary of the crash of the German dirigible Hindenburg. The airship burst into flames and came crashing to the ground killing 35 people and seriously injuring many others including an 8-year old boy. “The air was on fire,” he said recalling his narrow escape. Today we don’t have dirigibles as…
As summer approaches, more motorcyclists will take to North Carolina roads. This is a good time to remind drivers to “look twice and save a life” on the state’s roads. According to statistics from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, in 2015, 60 percent of all fatal motorcycle crashes happened between May and September. July…
According to a new study more than 20 percent of patients who sought a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic – known as one of the country’s premier medical institutions – had been misdiagnosed by their primary care physicians. Getting a Second Opinion The study, which has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in…