A lost couch was blamed for one death and three injuries along I-5 on Tuesday night in early November 2011. According to Fox40 TV, the incident began when a tan car struck the couch, leading the driver and a passenger to get out to survey the damage. When another car’s driver swerved around the couch,…
Allegedly overaggressive hospital security at North Carolina’s Cape Fear Valley Medical Center resulted in a patient dying, according to the Fayetteville Observer. In April 2011, AlliedBarton security guards at the NC hospital placed a schizophrenic patient in a choke hold after he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room with signs of paranoia. Then, hospital…
A busy pedestrian crossing between the UNC Charlotte campus and a residential neighborhood named College Downs may be putting pedestrians’ lives at risk, according to the Lake Norman News. One instance related by the newspaper occurred in the fall of 2011, when a car hit a student crossing at the location. A report by the nonprofit…
Authorities reported that donuts distracted the driver of an empty 18-wheeler regstered to Aex PTO and Trailer Inc. when he overturned his big rig in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC), according to the WWAY3. Police cited the driver, from Linden, NC, for driving left of center, and the trucker required treatment at Cape Fear Valley Medical…
Virginia State Police have reported that a November 2011 accident on I-85 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia (VA), killed two men and one woman who were riding in a pickup truck that collided with a logging truck and a chartered bus. The bus hit the pickup truck, pushing it into the log truck. A fourth individual in the…