A concrete bucket truck slammed into an SUV in Hamilton, Ohio and killed a woman in an SUV on Oct. 24. It has been determined that the truck driver did not have a valid commercial driver’s license at the time. The concrete bucket truck was going…
Thousands of products are recalled every year because the manufacturer finds some type of defect or danger in their product. The danger may be in the original design or occurred during manufacturing. The majority of these dangers are discovered by consumers who purchase the product…
One type of pedestrian accident that often has tragic consequences yet could be almost entirely avoidable are backover accidents. These accidents usually occur in parking lots and driveways as a vehicle driver is driving in reverse and hits a person standing or walking behind the…
A pedestrian and bicyclist safety program run by the North Carolina Department of Transportation appears to be reducing the number of car accidents and has received an achievement award from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association. The program is called Watch For Me NC, and it…
A community and family are grieving after a Burke County, North Carolina firefighter was struck and killed by a pickup truck while he was cleaning up storm debris on the evening of Oct. 8 in Drexel, North Carolina. Fire department officials reported that two firefighters…
A man from Pamplico, South Carolina has been charged with felony DUI after a fatal accident on Oct. 1 that left a Florance County, South Carolina woman dead. South Carolina state troopers stated that the 30-year-old suspected drunk driver drove his vehicle left of center…
A 16-year old boy and two other teenagers died in a head-on crash in Advance, North Carolina on Oct. 6. The 16 year-0ld was driving the car on Baltimore Road in Davie County, North Carolina when he attempted to pass a pickup truck. He slammed…
A 42-year-old Birmingham, Alabama woman has been arrested and charged with murder for her role in a suspected DUI crash in 2016 in Dora, Alabama. The woman’s name is Rebecca A. Watson and she was booked into jail on Sept. 18. She has been charged…
DAn allegedly drunk driver had a blood-alcohol level more than four times above the legal limit when he killed a woman in a Greenville, South Carolina crash, according to state trooper Jonathan Bridges in court. A toxicology report found that the driver, Scott A. Henning,…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) blasted a South Carolina law last month that has made dash cam videos a required piece of evidence in DUI cases. MADD thinks that faults and errors in the video making process are leading to plea deals that result in…
Labor Day weekend marks the end of the summer and a return to school. According to AAA, Labor Day also marks the end of the “100 deadliest days” for teen drivers. Statistics show that the 100 days between Memorial Day in May and Labor Day…
A family in Riverview, Florida is mourning the loss this week of their three-year-old girl who was killed in a car-pedestrian accident near their home on Aug. 22. The media reported that the mother had walked their eight-year-old son to the bus stop. She was…
