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Trucker safety has always been a hot bed issue. Over 4,000 people were killed in truck accidents between 2007 and 2009 and the numbers are not going down. Many safety advocates, including the Truck Safety Coalition, hold the trucking industry responsible as it pushes for progressively larger trucks and longer hours. And although safety organizations… 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
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
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
On July 31, 2011 a Kansas woman was run over by a beach patrol truck while sunbathing on a beach in Volusia County, FL. By “run over” I mean the vehicle literally drove on top of her. And by “her” I mean her head. The lifeguard who was driving the truck had been travelling in… read more
On July 26, 2009 Diane Schuler drove the wrong way for 1.7 miles on the Taconic State Parkway before she collided head-on with another vehicle killing herself, four of the children in the car with her, and all three occupants of the other vehicle. Later toxicology reports indicated that she had the equivalent of 10… read more
A 25-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Topeka, KS was closed on Monday, July 25, 2011 after the police received reports of hazardous materials located inside a truck travelling on the highway. The incident actually started earlier in the day when 911 received a call reporting hazardous materials left in a room at the Ramada… read more
When Sandy Eversole of Colorado Springs visited the memorial near the intersection where her son David Mueller was killed by a drunk driver two years ago, she was met with an unpleasant surprise. Nearly all of the items that had been left at the memorial were gone save for the cross and a picture of… read more
The Constatinides family, of Colorado Springs, had no idea what was in store for them when packed up their camp site to move upstream in the early hours of Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Laurel and Alex Constantinides, of Colorado Springs, and their three daughters – Hannah Xian, 8, Zoe Hong Chun, 5, and Lucia Yoon… read more
One doesn’t often consider golf carts when thinking of automotive fatalities. After all, they don’t seem to go that fast, and they aren’t that heavy. There have even been images posted on the web where a cart has rolled over on someone and, at worst, they escaped with a few bruises. Golf carts are generally… read more
