Lucky passengers on an Amtrak train are back on track after a collision at a North Carolina railroad crossing sliced apart a stuck tractor-trailer rig. Police say the truck got stuck on the tracks Tuesday in Kings Mountain, about 30 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina (NC). Officers tried to notify Amtrak, but were too…
This was almost the case yesterday when on a dare from some friends, a young boy sprinted across a lake near Kempsville’s Chatham Hall Park in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA). His older brother chased after him but the ice broke, plunging the boys into freezing cold water. They had just minutes before hypothermia would…
A chair lift at Sugarloaf Ski Resort, located in Maine, derailed causing eight people to fall to the ground and suffer serious injuries. The chair lift, Spillway East, was 35 years old and scheduled for maintenance improvements, according to The Virginian-Pilot. Some of the injured individuals were children. Five chairs fell in all. Fortunately, the…
According to Highway Patrol, a Beaufort County man was injured in two different pedestrian accidents when he was struck in separate areas within 5 minutes of each in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Troopers say it happened on Voice of America Rd. near Cherry Run Rd. around 6:15 a.m. N.C.Troopers reported that a person was driving…
Robert Miller was crossing Hatch Street at the intersection of Rauhut Street in Burlington, North Carolina (NC) when he was hit by a white Honda, according to news-record.com. You’d think after a driver hits someone, they’d at least stop and see if the victim was okay. That did not happen in this incident. The driver…