Two passengers got seriously injured in a single-car accident on Highway 421 in Wilkesboro, North Carolina (NC). They were passengers in a Nissan whose driver fell asleep, causing the vehicle to run off the road, hit a guardrail, go airborne and hit some trees before landing and rolling down an embankment. The two victims were…
A 17-year-old high school senior died in a head-on collision on Highway 55 near Cove City, North Carolina (NC), early in the afternoon of May 30, 2012. The crash occurred when the driver of the car in which the teen was a passenger ran off the road, overcorrected and swerved into the path of an…
As Carolina personal injury and wrongful death attorneys, we often report on serious and fatal accidents caused by tractor-trailer drivers. Simply because commercial trucks are so much larger and heavier than cars, pickups, SUVs and motorcycles, the smallest mistake or briefest moment of distraction by a big rig operator can lead to tragedy. Truckers are…
Police were attempting to stop a car for a traffic violation when the flagged-down driver hit two other vehicles head-on on Cox Road in Concord, North Carolina (NC). According to WCNC, the at-fault driver died and two people in the struck vehicles suffered injuries and needed to be taken to Carolinas Medical Center. View Larger Map This…
A news story out of Asheboro, North Carolina (NC), might make you reconsider what it means to be a hero. A North Carolina woman who stopped to assist a person who had lost control and slammed into a guardrail on U.S. 64 is fighting for her life after being hit by a pickup truck. The…