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Fatal Car Wreck Seriously Injures 4 Kids in Cherryville, North Carolina Collision

Four children are among those seriously injured in a fatal wreck near Cherryville, North Carolina (N.C.).  Troopers say both drivers were driving drunk.Troopers said David Wayne Cleary’s car was going about 70 mph when it crossed the center line on Hwy. 274 at Beam Street, just south of Cherryville city limits, and struck a truck driven by Richard…

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Car and Truck Accidents Put Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies at Particular Risk

In a 2009 interview with the New York Times, Virginia Tech biomechanical engineering professor Stefan Duma shared this fact: “More pregnant women die in car crashes than in birthing complications.” Duma explained that steering wheel impacts with the larger-than-normal abdomens and chests of woman carrying children account for a majority of the traffic crash fatalities….

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