According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, each year 100,000 crashes, 1,550 deaths, and 71,000 injuries result from drowsy driving. When polled by the National Sleep Foundation, it was admitted by 37 percent of working Americans that they have fallen asleep behind the wheel of a car. Mercedes-Benz created new high-tech equipment to help…
U.S. Highway 70 was closed down by Durham police for a brief period of time as they responded to a two vehicle collision. A 1992 Toyota driven by Theophilus Parker of Durham in the eastbound lane ran off the right side of U.S. 70, spinning out of control. The car came back across the eastbound…
A grisly discovery was made recently by a North Carolina Highway Patrol officer on a particular stretch of I-40 in Orange County, North Carolina. They observed that an interstate sign had been hit by a vehicle. After stopping her patrol car and taking a closer look the vehicle was discovered. Upon further investigation, a…
A freak accident has taken the life of a Garner man after a large tree fell on top of the car he was riding in. The victim, Dejuan Green, 21, of Garner, North Carolina was riding in the front seat of a car when a massive tree crushed it, killing him on impact. According…
My colleague Randy Appleton takes note of the latest fatal accident involving a bicycle and a car in the Tidewater area in his new post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard blog.