A crash near the Botetourt County, Virginia (VA), community of Trinity left an older couple dead, their young passenger injured, and three people in another vehicle hospitalized with injuries. The fatal t-bone collision occurred on the night of June 25, 2015, when the elderly driver of a Cadillac tried to turn from U.S. 220/Roanoke Road onto…
A 17-year-old Danville teen was killed in a car crash in Chatham, and the driver of the vehicle, also 17, has been charged with failing to maintain proper control. According to details released by law enforcement, the 2009 Chevrolet HHR the teens were in was traveling north on Marion Road when it went off…
A woman died in early June in a car accident in Los Angeles, which was the 8th person killed due to malfunctioning airbags made by Takata Corporation, according to US regulators and Honda Motor Company. That woman died from serious head and neck injuries when the air bag in her Honda Civic inflated too quickly…
The expression “riding shotgun” (sitting in the front seat next to the driver) is derived from the days of stagecoach travel. The passenger in those days was usually armed with a shotgun or rifle and would sit beside the driver to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo. After reading this newest study…
A CSX train conductor and a tractor-trailer driver suffered second- and third-degree burns when their vehicles collided in an industrial rail yard in Buffalo, New York (NY). The crash, outside a General Mills plant on Ganson Street along the river, occurred on the morning of June 23, 2015. The train was reportedly backing up along…