Two years after being hit by a truck in Rockingham, Virginia (VA), in 2009, 71-year-old Zackie Mitchell still suffers unrelenting pain from injuries he sustained in the crash. It took until April 2011 to get the trucking company, Bush Hog LLC, to admit that the driver it employed was at fault for the head-on collision…
Making sudden turns is never wise, especially if it’s in front of an oncoming vehicle. When drivers make the mistake of not yielding right of way, the consequences can be serious. This was made evident in a recent crash involving an SUV and a car in North Stafford, Virginia (VA). The driver of a 2011…
Police believe the driver of a Volvo was speeding before running off Elmhurst Lane near Victory Boulevard in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), and causing a one-car crash in which two teenaged girls lost their lives. The third person in the car at the time of the wreck, a 17-year-old boy, also suffered serious injuries a result…
Federal regulations that would have limited cargo and charter plane pilots to a maximum workday of 13 hours and which were set to take effect on August 1, 2011, have been suspended indefinitely. According to the Wall Street Journal, freight and private air carriers object to the proposed rules for preventing pilot fatigue because “the…
A roofer was injured after coming into contact with an electrical power line for an air conditioner atop Saint Paul AME Church in Newport News, Virginia (VA). According to the Virginian-Pilot, the worker had to be transported to Riverside Regional Hospital for treatment of electrical burns. Electric shock of a human body may, if the…