It was around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 4, 2011 and Luis Armandon Molina was driving his SUV, with his entire family in the car, when he spotted what he thought was his motorcycle in the back of a pickup truck. Believing that someone had stolen his bike, Molina gave chase until he lost control… read more
Three construction accidents claimed lives on Utah roadways in the span of three days o during the first weekend of August 2011. Two of the workers died when they were struck by cars, the third was killed by a piece of construction equipment. The first accident occurred on Thursday, August 4, when Aaron Simms, a… read more
A Peoria couple is dead after a drunk driver slammed into their motorcycle then fled the scene early Sunday. Michael “Korey” Korenchuk and his wife Rachel were riding their Harley-Davidson around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, August 7 when they stopped behind another vehicle at a red light. An SUV slammed into them from behind and pushed… read more
I don’t know which is more surprising: that Google has robot cars, or that they have had them for over a year and none of them have gotten into an accident until now. On August 6, 2011 the Google Prius rear-ended several other cars, including another Toyota Prius. Google says that the robot is not… read more
It was a fatal motorcycle accident, like so many that occur on roadways across the country. This accident happened on August 4, 2011 in Horry County, South Carolina at the intersection of Highway 17 Bypass and Glenns Bay Road. Seventy-two year-old Jerry Smith was travelling south on Highway 17 Bypass when he turned left onto… read more
Friday, August 5, 2011 marked the one-year anniversary of the Chilean mine cave in were 33 miners were trapped underground for over 60 days. For the better part of two months, last year, the world watched fretted over the plight of the miners. Day-by-day and week-by-week we heard reports of the rescue efforts and speculation… read more
For some parents there will come a time where they are known only by their children’s accomplishments. Look at George Clooney’s dad (Nick, by the way). For some parents this can be a source of pride, for others it could be a source of pain. Take Cecil W. Harpham. If the name is not familiar,… read more
Wyoming is up to 73 fatalities for the year after six fatal accidents in the last week of July. And of those six accidents, four of them occurred between Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31. In comparison, the number of fatalities at the same time last year was 71, and the total for 2010… read more
A woman in Scranton, PA, is in prison after going on a hit-and-run spree that endangered not only the lives of the people she hit, it endangered the lives of the children in the car with her. On July 30, 2011 Mary Lukaitis, 32, of Scranton packed her kids into her blue Buick Rendezvous SUV… read more
Two people are now dead in another instance where a rider has decided that it’s better to lead police on a high-speed chase than pull over for a traffic stop. The events leading up to the crash started in Wellington, Utah around 11:00 p.m. on July 28, 2011 when Carbon County police tried to stop… read more
