Last week, Ford Motor Co. and a car dealer in Freehold, New Jersey (NJ), were held to be primarily responsible for an SUV rollover accident that left a women with a useless arm. The accident occurred in 2000, and Rebekah Zakrocki testified during a 2007 civil trial (Zakrocki v. Ford Motor Co., A-5769-06/5799-06) that her…
A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed in Mecklenburg Saturday night on South Tryon Street in Mecklenburg, North Carolina (NC). The Mecklenburg-Charlotte Police Department said the pedestrian was attempting to cross the street at an intersection on South Tryon Street when he was struck by a Honda. The driver of the vehicle stopped…
At least 20 of the more than 220 bus and trucking companies ordered shut down by federal regulators over the past two years still have vehicles on the road, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. And, as the authors of the report based on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data noted in their…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to use bodybuilding supplements that claim to have steroid-like effects. The agency is also ordering one maker of such products to take their supplements off the market. According to the FDA, any dietary supplement sold using words like “anabolic” or “TREN” can contain steroids and…
A promising college football player was mostly paralyzed after a pavement company left a road slick with mud.