In July 2016, a hot air balloon crash in Texas killed 15 passengers and the pilot. In October, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the crash was a result of the pilot’s “pattern of poor decision making” combined with his medical conditions and medication use. As a result, the board has called on…
A woman who was struck by an out-of-control driver in a neighborhood outside of Richmond, Virginia (VA), died from her injuries a week after the collision. The pedestrian crash that would prove fatal happened on Kings Charter Drive in Mechanicsville just before 6:30 am on February 27, 2018. According to Hanover County law…
A man, woman and young child fled on foot after their car slammed into a pickup truck in Richmond, Virginia (VA). The three people left the elderly pickup driver with fatal injuries. Richmond Police responded to the hit-and-run collision at the intersection of Maury Street and Perdue Avenue just before 7 pm on…
The driver who hit and killed a road crew worker on I-95 south of Petersburg, Virginia (VA), admitted to looking down and taking her eyes off the road in the seconds before the fatal collision. This latest deadly distracted driving crash happened at around 11:15 am on February 3, 2018. The deceased victim…
Last June, Leonard Schultz, a popular special education teacher and football coach at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia, was killed when he was struck by a box truck on the Capital Beltway Inner Loop in Springfield. The 52-year-old victim and his 24-year-old nephew had stopped their pickup truck to secure a boat they…