In late October, a trailer being pulled by a van in Michigan became unhooked and smashed into a 2006 Mercury Mariner SUV killing the driver, according to MLive.com. Less than a month later, a boat trailer being pulled by a vehicle in Maryland broke loose and slammed into a Honda pickup truck injuring the driver,…
A Paris Elementary school bus was traveling down State Park Road in Greenville County, South Carolina (SC) early in the morning with a 9-year-old student on board. The bus was beginning its route to eventually transport a busload full of kids to school for a day of learning. Unfortunately, the bus never got a chance to…
On Nov. 10, Portsmouth became the second Hampton Roads city this year to ban people from standing the middle of divided roads and highways for the purpose of collecting money. Virginia Beach enacted a separate ban on solicitations in traffic medians in August. My colleague Rick Shapiro welcomes these efforts to increase pedestrian safety in…
Ronald K. Sharpe Jr. used to teach physical education and health at Azalea Garden Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia (VA). That part of his life ended the night he crashed into the car Alexandria Calamia was driving Sharpe, drunk on beer and high on marijuana according to police evidence and his own guilty plea to…
James Monroe and James Hastings hopped into their single-engine Mooney M-20C airplane for a business trip. Unfortunately, something happened to that single-engine and their trip ended in a horrendous crash. They took off from Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston Salem, North Carolina around 4:30pm. Less than an hour later, they crashed six miles away from…