Eight days after getting struck by a car while walking on campus, a Davidson College professor passed away. According to WBTV, the professor is survived by his wife, five children and four grandchildren. This Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), car wreck illustrates the damage that can occur when a pedestrian is at the wrong place at the…
Virginia State Police troopers on motorcycles will again take to the roads of cities such as Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Portsmouth, VA, to check for speeding, reckless driving and other life-threatening behaviors behind the wheel. The effort is part of Project M.E.A.R. (Motorcycle Enforcement Accident Reduction) and is intended to enhance interstate enforcement efforts…
Allegedly overaggressive hospital security at North Carolina’s Cape Fear Valley Medical Center resulted in a patient dying, according to the Fayetteville Observer. In April 2011, AlliedBarton security guards at the NC hospital placed a schizophrenic patient in a choke hold after he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room with signs of paranoia. Then, hospital…
Authorities reported that donuts distracted the driver of an empty 18-wheeler regstered to Aex PTO and Trailer Inc. when he overturned his big rig in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC), according to the WWAY3. Police cited the driver, from Linden, NC, for driving left of center, and the trucker required treatment at Cape Fear Valley Medical…
Virginia State Police have reported that a November 2011 accident on I-85 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia (VA), killed two men and one woman who were riding in a pickup truck that collided with a logging truck and a chartered bus. The bus hit the pickup truck, pushing it into the log truck. A fourth individual in the…