Teens are most likely to put themselves and others at risk for injuries and death in distracted driving crashes. Some 450,000 Americans got injured due to the actions of a distracted driver during 2009, and another 5,474 U.S. resident got killed in such accidents. I’d go on, but instead, I’ll point you to the source…
Most pedestrians walking outside of a shopping center probably do not fear vehicles coming out of nowhere and hitting them. However, that is basically what happened at the Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh, North Carolina (NC). The driver of a 2003 Lexus was pulling into a parking space outside of a Noodles and Company…
A controversial drug being used to treat eye cancers and other ocular diseases has been linked to blindness in at least five patients and eye infections in many more. The growing catalog of problems linked to Genentech’s Avastin (bevacizumab) are detailed in a report in the New York Times. According to the newspaper, the latest victims were…
The next time you have car trouble and are forced to pull over on the interstate, remember this: The side of the road is a corridor of danger that even trained police officers and emergency personal avoid at all costs. Recently, a woman was killed while attempting to change a flat tire on the High Rise…
More people died on the roads of Virginia over the Labor Day holiday than in 2010, continuing a disturbing trend over the holidays. VA State Police said there were 14 fatal accidents in Virginia over the four-day period, compared to 13 in the previous two years, the Washington Post reported. Three separate crashes in Fairfax, Fauquier,…