Drunk driving is dangerous and irresponsible. Everyone knows that. Driving drunk with a pregnant woman in the car is exponentially worse. On July 7, 2011, an 18-year-old driver who shouldn’t have been drinking in the first place made a deadly choice when she choose to drive while drunk. She crashed her car into a tree…
A Suffolk, Virginia (VA), police pursuit on July 9, 2011, ended tragically with a fatal car accident, the Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday. The driver, Cornell A. Richardson, was pulled over for a traffic violation. When the police officer got out of his vehicle, Richardson sped off in his Toyota. The officer called in a description of the car…
A motorcyclist has been killed in Virginia (VA) after colliding with a trash truck at an intersection, just the latest in a spate of fatal accidents involving motorcyclists in the Commonwealth. Rakesh Bhatt, 54, died after a trash truck struck his motorcycle at the intersection of Van Dorn Street and Taney Avenue in Alexandria (VA) early…
It was a hot summer day, and a tired but happy family was on their way home from a military appreciation day at an amusement park. Joe Weschler, his young son Dalton and his wife Michelle were driving on Interstate 64 in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), when their brand new 2011 Chevy Traverse exploded into flames…
A new study finds the use of any cell phone, hands-free or bluetooth, can be distracting enough to cause a car crash. According to PCmag.com, the Governors Highway Safety Association combined a decade’s worth of findings about the causes of car accidents. Shockingly, distractions caused by cell phones accounted for between 15 and 25 percent of all accidents….