State troopers say a man was killed Sunday after a car struck his moped and kept going. The hit and run happened early Sunday morning on Highway 264 near the intersection with Highway 30 in Pitt County. According to WITN News Troopers say that 51-year-old Linwood Webb, Jr. of Washington was thrown some 175 feet…
Trucks, both commercial and non-commercial, are involved in roughly 3 percent all accidents in the United States. This may seem like a small number, but that’s thousands of accidents each year where people are severely injured or killed. Truck accidents can, and should, decrease. The responsibility falls on both drivers of trucks and drivers in…
Last week, Ford Motor Co. and a car dealer in Freehold, New Jersey (NJ), were held to be primarily responsible for an SUV rollover accident that left a women with a useless arm. The accident occurred in 2000, and Rebekah Zakrocki testified during a 2007 civil trial (Zakrocki v. Ford Motor Co., A-5769-06/5799-06) that her…
Obesity remains a major cause of illness and death in the United States.
At least 20 of the more than 220 bus and trucking companies ordered shut down by federal regulators over the past two years still have vehicles on the road, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. And, as the authors of the report based on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data noted in their…