What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) recently granted a two-year award of $1 million to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, Duke University, the University of Vermont, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Penn State Altoona. The purpose of the research is to develop an automated system…
What happened: A recent article in US News Health reported on a new study which found that drivers who suffer from advanced glaucoma have twice as many accidents as drivers with normal vision. There are more than 2.7 million Americans age 40 and older who suffer from the eye disease. Glaucoma is caused when fluid…
What happened: A worker was killed in an accident at N.C. State’s Centennial Campus near the intersection of Main Campus and Achievement Drive. Luis Javier Martinez, 39, was part of a work crew from J.F. Wilkerson Contracting in Morrisville that was digging trenches for installation of a 16-inch, 18,000-foot line of pipe. The dirt around…
What Happened: On Saturday, November 17, 2012, there was a car crash on West Sugar Creek Rd. in Charlotte, North Carolina. It appears that one vehicle crossed over the center of the road and crashed into a few cars heading in the opposite direction. Three people were taken to the local hospital with injuries. View…
This week in our library section, we discussed what makes commercial tractor-trailers so dangerous in rainy conditions and on wet roads. Now that you know the physics behind rain-related truck accidents in Virginia, let’s take a look at how you can help prevent these accidents from happening in the first place: • Give trucks lots…