The North Carolina Highway Patrol identified the individual killed in a crash involving an 18-wheel truck on U.S. 158 as a 17-year-old boy. The teenager was originally from Elizabeth City, NC. This car-truck wreck occurred at the intersection of U.S. 158 and Fire Tower Road. The teenager was driving a Ford Mustang with two other…
A gentleman was paralyzed in a car crash over 20 years ago. Many people would be overwrought with depression due to such an injury, but not this gentleman. He was a fighter and learned to cope with his condition to make a life for himself. Unfortunately, all that changed in 2008 when he fell from…
A terrible wreck that killed five people started Monday evening when a dump truck struck a bridge and backed traffic up. Seven cars came to a stop on Interstate 26 in Asheville, North Carolina (NC), reports Channel 4 News. If the story had stopped here, it would have just been a typical interstate backup. Instead…
Any carpenter will tell you to measure twice, cut once. The same concept holds true for the medical community. Any patient will tell you that they’d rather have a doctor ask a question twice, than to cut the wrong thing once. Whether you are going into Sentara Norfolk General in Norfolk, Virginia (VA) for a…
How’s this for a rare piece of good news: “Fatal Crashes Involving Teen Drivers Dropped 36% Over 5 Years“? Pretty great. But, sadly, far from the whole story told by U.S. traffic accident statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on October 21, 2010. CDC analysts pored over data on accidents involving…