Anytime you are a passenger in a vehicle, the responsibility for your safety rests with the driver. As adults, we can choose who we get into vehicles with. Children, however, have no such ability, and when we put our children on the school bus, we expect them to be safe. This is not always the…
A 29-year-old drunk driver struck and killed a female pedestrian in Charlotte, North Carolina (NC) during July 2011. According to wbtv.com, the accident happened right before 11 pm as the victim crossed North Tryon Street near Guy E. Suddreth Avenue. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said the woman who lost her life was 55 and died from injuries…
A three-vehicle wreck at the foot of Neuse River Bridge in Craven County, North Carolina (NC), injured at least one driver and caused potassium chloride and diesel to spill onto the roadway. The accident, according to a NC Highway Patrol Trooper, happened when the driver of a small passenger car pulled into the path of, and hit,…
A car accident in New Hanover County,North Carolina (NC), has sent three people to the hospital. According to WECT.com, the crash happened on 17th Street in downtown Wilmington, where an eyewitness said the driver from Castle Hayne rear-ended one vehicle and push it nto other parked cars. One of those vehicles rolled over onto the…
A pedestrian was seriously injured in early September 2011 when the driver of a Buick Century attempted to back into a handicapped parking space at the Durham County Main Library. According to the Herald Sun, the victim was dragged 30 feet and found bleeding on the pavement by firefighters who had him taken to Duke University Hospital…