WSLS 10 reports that on the night of Monday, January 17th, 2011, a crash near mile marker 137 on Interstate 81 left two people dead and several injured. According to State Police, Virginia (VA) trucker lost control in Roanoke County and drove across two lanes of oncoming traffic. The driver was hauling sawdust north on the…
A grand jury has decided not to indict the driver of an SUV that crashed into a fire truck in Rocky Mount (VA) last year killing two firefighters. The firefighters killed were Vice-Mayor Posey Dillon and William Altice. The deaths of emergency workers in the line of duty are always shocking and our…
Recently, a study in the journal Pediatrics found that approximately 20,000 children are taken to emergency rooms each year for sledding accidents. Many sustain injuries involving blunt force trauma to the head. But Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI, is seeking to prevent such injuries this winter by offering helmets to kids brought to its…
The Post-Standard reports that a robot at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York (NY), is helping a disabled woman relearn how to walk. In 2009, the 45-year-old woman was partially paralyzed after falling down a flight of stairs. The damage she sustained to her spinal cord during the fall left her unable to walk,…
A fiery chain-reaction crash in Florida (FLA) that saw a tractor-trailer pile into three vehicles in an I-95 construction zone has once again highlighted the potential dangers of work areas. Authorities investigating the accident are looking at whether the truck failed to reduce speed in a construction zone, Florida Today reported. Seven people were involved in…