A former coach with the Public Schools of Robeson County was killed after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Tolarsville Road in Lumberton, N.C. The 61-year-old victim was also a former track star from the University of North Carolina. According to law enforcement, the victim was following North Carolina bicycle law…
A police chase, a stolen car, a teen driver and an ignored stop signal set the stage for a hit-and-run collision in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NC), that left two adults and three children in another vehicle injured badly enough to require hospital treatment. The at-fault teenaged driver ran a red light at the intersection of Waughtown…
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton made almost as many national and international headlines for getting injured in a car accident on December 9, 2014, as he ever did for completing a touchdown pass or winning a career-defining award like the Heisman Trophy. The wall-to-wall coverage from outlets as diverse as England’s Daily Mail newspaper and ESPN…
Another fatal accident caused by a young driver’s speeding has occurred on North Carolina’s roads. Three teenagers were killed, and a fourth injured, when the car they were in crashed on Westridge Rd., in Greensboro. Two of the teens killed, the 15 year-old driver and a 17 year-old backseat passenger, were pronounced dead at the…
There have been many studies and reports regarding distracted driving, but another very real danger on the road is drowsy driving. Several months ago, comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured, and another passenger killed, when a tractor-trailer plowed into a limo that Morgan was a passenger in. The driver of the tractor-trailer that caused the…