What Happened According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) manufacturers filed more than 650 safety recalls, affecting over 17.8 million vehicles, child seats and vehicle equipment, during calendar year 2012. This had a major impact on influencing the recall of more than 9 million vehicles and 60,000 items of…
What Happened: A Ford Explorer was driving east on US 64 West in Murphy, North Carolina, and was driving erratically. The vehicle went left of center and slammed into a Ford pickup truck. That crash sent the pickup spinning into a Honda Civic. According to witnesses, the wreck happened a few minutes after other drivers…
What Happened: A car was driving on US 17 South near River Bend, North Carolina, when the driver lost control. She ran off the road onto the shoulder, slid sideways, flew into the median, and flipped the car several times. The passenger in the car was thrown from the vehicle and died. The car came…
What Happened: A driver of a car turned into the wrong ramp on SC 22 in Horry County, South Carolina. The driver drove the wrong way on the highway and slammed into a tractor trailer. South Carolina State Police stated that the highway was very foggy at the time of the crash. Both drivers went…
What Happened: Toyota just announced a major recall of more than 1 million vehicles in the United States. The notice released by the automaker said that the company would be recalling more than 750,000 Corolla’s and Corolla Matrix cars in the U.S. that were made between 2001 and 2004. Tens of thousands more vehicles would…