A 12-year-old girl was the victim of a vicious pit bull attack on April 10, 2014. The girl was sitting on a friend’s porch on Summit Ave. in Portsmouth, Virginia, when the pit bull got out of the house and charged her. It dragged her to the ground by her hair, and when she tried…
Many freight trains roll through Barrington, Illinois (IL) each day. Many of them are hauling crude oil or fuel in old tank cars called DOT-111s. These are called by some people the ‘soda can’ of rail cars, because their shells are dangerously thin. Many of these tank cars are laden with heavy tar sands crude…
Preliminary investigations indicate the driver of a North Carolina Department of Transportation excavator crossed the center line of rural NC111 outside the town of Tarboro, NC, shortly before crashing head-on into a van traveling in the opposite direction. The man behind the wheel of the wheel died at the scene of the accident. He has…
A young could who became engaged just months ago in Paris were among 10 people killed in a fiery wreck between a bus and a Fed Ex tractor trailer. The wreck occurred in Orland, California (CA) which is about 100 miles north of Sacramento. According to media reports, a Fed Ex big rig crossed the center…
Tractor-trailer operators can cause serious, sometimes fatal, crashes when they change lanes or turn without making sure that no cars are close to their rigs. One of the more recent lessons about the damage a big rig can do when driven without the utmost care and caution comes from an April 9, 2014, wreck on…