WATV News 10 stated that on the morning of Wednesday, January 26th, 2011, a four vehicle crash had police and emergency crews scrambling to respond. Injuries were reported for this accident taking place in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA). Two school buses, a van, and a Honda Pilot were involved in the crash, which occurred at the…
A grand jury has decided not to indict the driver of an SUV that crashed into a fire truck in Rocky Mount (VA) last year killing two firefighters. The firefighters killed were Vice-Mayor Posey Dillon and William Altice. The deaths of emergency workers in the line of duty are always shocking and our…
Recently, a study in the journal Pediatrics found that approximately 20,000 children are taken to emergency rooms each year for sledding accidents. Many sustain injuries involving blunt force trauma to the head. But Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI, is seeking to prevent such injuries this winter by offering helmets to kids brought to its…
The Post-Standard reports that a robot at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York (NY), is helping a disabled woman relearn how to walk. In 2009, the 45-year-old woman was partially paralyzed after falling down a flight of stairs. The damage she sustained to her spinal cord during the fall left her unable to walk,…
The Hartford Courant reports that four students were hit by a car while walking home from school in Placentia, California (CA) on Monday, January 24th, 2011. The accident occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. The students were walking home from school when they stopped on the northeast corner of Golden and Valencia. The driver of a…