Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Lawmakers seek new teen driving restrictions

  Staff Writer | January 30, 2007 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Associated Press reported yesterday that Alabama's State Highway Safety Coordinating Committee will address teen driving concerns at the next legislative session in an attempt to prevent motor vehicle accidents and deaths.In an effort to make Alabama's highways safer, the committee seeks to limit the number of passengers a teen can have in the car and ban cell phone usage while driving. The...

• First lawsuit filed in school bus tragedy

  Staff Writer | January 24, 2007 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The family of a Lee High School student who died in the November school bus accident in Huntsville filed suit against the school bus company and the driver of the car involved in the crash. The wrongful death lawsuit was the first to be filed in conjunction with the crash that killed four students and injured many others. An article in The Huntsville Times details the lawsuit, which cites the...

• Two-car accident injures three

  Staff Writer | January 24, 2007 12:36 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A motor vehicle accident on Alabama Highway 35 Monday left three people injured, one critically, according ot a report from The Daily Sentinel.The crash, which happened between Scottsboro and Section, blocked traffic in both lanes on Sand Mountain for about one hour. The driver of a 1989 Toyota Corolla was seriously injured when she veered into oncoming traffic and hit a 2001 Chevrolet pickup...

• Two men die in weekend car accidents

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two Mobile County men died in separate one-car accidents over the weekend. A report from The Press-Register Monday details both tragic motor vehicle crashes.The first accident, on Saturday, involved a 1999 Chevrolet pickup truck that ran off Tanner Williams Road, rolled over and struck a tree. A passenger who was not wearing his seatbelt was thrown from the vehicle and died. Two other passengers...

• Traffic fatality in Lawrence County

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Times Daily reported a motor vehicle accident that resulted in the death of a Courtland man last Thursday. The one-car crash occurred on Lawrence 150 at about 11:30 p.m. when the car left the road and hit a tree. Emergency personnel say that the 1996 Chevrolet S10 pickup truck hit the tree almost head-on, immediately killing the driver. The passenger, who was the driver's twin brother, was...

• Too many teens die in car accidents

  Staff Writer | January 22, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The disturbing statistics about teen deaths in motor vehicle crashes has parents and law enforcement concerned about the safety of our roadways for teens and others. Reports say that car accidents are the leading cause of death for teens ages 15 to 20.To improve safety on roads, experts say that teens need to practice driving much more with their parents, take driver's education classes, and...

• I-65 three-car accident kills woman

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Shelby County Reporter posted a story on their web site Tuesday about a deadly three-car accident on Interstate 65. A woman driving by herself on I-65 near the Cahaba Valley Road exit died in the three-car pile-up at about 12:30 p.m., said state trooper spokesman Sgt. Tim Sartain. The driver of another vehicle was injured and listed in critical condition at the hospital. The driver of the...

• Glen Davis in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 16, 2007 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Hours after LSU's 66-49 victory over Connecticut - Glen Davis, Tiger forward, was involved in a car accident early Sunday morning and taken to Baton Rouge Hospital.LSU coach John Brady said Davis was released from the hospital Sunday morning and would be able to participate in a no-contact walkthrough Sunday night to prepare for LSU's Southeastern Conference opener in Alabama on Tuesday...

• School bus accident to be reconstructed

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2007 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An article from The Huntsville Times reported that an accident reconstruction team will recreate the tragic scene of the recent Huntsville school bus accident that killed four Lee High School students and injured dozens of others.The private accident reconstruction team will close part of I-565 to work on creating computer simulations of the accident. The team was hired by a lawyer representing...

• Pennsylvania school bus struck by tractor-trailer

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Another school bus accident happened last week in Pennsylvania, causing injuries to 10 Conrad Weiser School District students. A tractor-trailer collided nearly head-on with the school bus, causing it to run into a corn field and roll over on its side. "Seeing the condition of the bus, we're fortunate that everyone is still alive," said Dr. Robert L. Urzillo, Conrad Weiser superintendent. "I...