First responder officials told a US Senate hearing this week that large cities and small towns are not ready for a derailment disaster on the scale of the one that happened last year in Quebec. In that incident, part of the town was destroyed and 47 people died. This hearing was the second on Capitol…
A nightmare scenario played out in real life on April 9, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NC). According to police and witness accounts, a woman driving a Nissan Pathfinder hit a pedestrian near the intersection of North Cleveland Avenue and E. 25th Street then drove on for almost 3 miles with the man trapped under the…
Distracted driving appears to be the cause of a fatal pedestrian accident in Arlington, Virginia (VA). As first reported by Washington, DC, television station NBC 4 on February 25, 2014, a dump truck hit and killed a 39-year-old mother of three young children on Little Falls Road. The woman was helping one her kids get…
Three passengers in a Toyota lost their lives when the car’s driver apparently pulled out in front of a tractor-trailer on Route 155 in New Kent County, Virginia (VA). The fatal accident occurred on the morning of April 8, 2014. One of the victims, who had not been wearing a seat belt while riding in…
Railroads across the US are starting a new marketing campaign to highlight the dangers of being close to railroad tracks, after an increase in railway deaths in 2013. At this time a year ago, railroads were saying that 2012 was their safest year ever; derailments and crossing accidents were in decline. But in 2013, the number…