A 6-year-old boy has died from injures he suffered when his go-cart collided with a car off NC 111 in Chinquapin, North Carolina. The youngser apparently did not the other vehicle when he entered the roadway. Shockingly, the driver of the car was actually employed as a secretary at the elementary school the boy attended….
An accident at E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC), on October 25, 2011, sent three teens to area hospitals with burn injuries The advanced placement chemistry students had mixed and heated potassium nitrate and table sugar, and the mixture burst into flames. According to the Fayetteville Fire Department, other students were treated for injuries…
My colleague Rick Shapiro has written a new post for our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog site about an AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety analysis of NC traffic accident data that shows teen drivers are about 50 percent more likely to crash in their first month of driving. DM
Four nearly simultaneous crashes all but shut down I-77 through Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), during evening rush hour on October 19, 2011. Two accidents occurred in the northbound lanes between the exits for Remount Road and the John Belk Freeway and left two people injured. A third accident with injuries occurred near Tyvola Road, and traffic became even…
My colleague Emily Brannon has reported our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog site that two pedestrians wearing headphones lost their lives when they walked into the paths of vehicles they did not see or hear coming. Wearing headphones has increased pedestrian fatalities. LC