Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Residents for speed reductions on dangerous highway

  Staff Writer | November 09, 2006 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Citizens who live and work along an Alabama Highway known as Ga. Highway 151 are asking their local government to reduce the speed limits. After seven motor vehicle accident fatalities in the area in just 10 years, these concerned residents and business owners seem to have a point. A head-on collision on Oct. 3 that killed one and injured another has spurred this push for reduced speed limits....

• Heroes emerges from two-vehicle accident

  Staff Writer | November 02, 2006 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A deadly car accident on Alabama Highway 69 near Northport killed a Mississippi man on Monday, according to a Tuscaloosanews.com report. The two-vehicle accident might have claimed two more lives had it not been for the heroic actions of a passerby. Paul Free noticed a Dodge pickup in flames as he drove by, and saw that another vehicle was on its side right beside it. Fearing that the second...

• Deadly accidents plague Alabama 20

  Staff Writer | October 31, 2006 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A stretch of highway on Alabama 20 has had more than its fair share of motor vehicle accidents, many of them with fatalities. The latest accident occured on Wednesday, October 25, when an Iraq war veteran from Decatur's car ran off the road an struck a utility pole. The cause of the accident is unkown. Both the Decatur man and a Trinity woman who was the passenger died in the crash. According...

• Accidents on Alabama 20 totaled 83 last year

  Staff Writer | October 30, 2006 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to a report from DecaturDaily.com yesterday, a stretch of just over two miles on Alabama 20 between I-65 and U.S. 31 has seen 83 motor vehicle accidents last year alone. Many drivers treat this dangerous stretch of four-lane country highway like it's an interstate. The story reports that although the road carries about 36,000 vehicles per day, it is only designed for up to 34,000. Tena...

• Fatal school bus accident in construction zone

  Staff Writer | October 26, 2006 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A motor vehicle accident involving a van colliding with a school bus in Athens, Alabama, left the van driver dead and a van passenger severely injured. The bus driver and a seven-year-old boy on the bus suffered minor injuries. According to a WAFF 48 News report, the bus was traveling west as the van was traveling south and the two collided, possibly as a result of the van's failure to stop....

• Alabama traffic and pedestrian accidents high

  Staff Writer | October 23, 2006 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Sadly, one need only scan recent headlines pointing to Alabama traffic and pedestrian accidents to see that the roads continue to be a dangerous place. One article on the Press-Register's al.com details the problem for pedestrians and how the government is addressing it. Two weeks in September brought nine pedestrian accidents in Mobile County alone. The Alabama Department of Public safety...

• New law brings stiffer penalties for passing school buses

  Staff Writer | October 23, 2006 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A recent law signed by Gov. Bob Riley in April raises the penalties for illegally passing a bus loading or unloading students to up to $3,000 in fines and more. This law is part of the state's push to help prevent motor vehicle accidents and protect our children.http://firms.injuryboard.comAn article on Montgomeryadvertiser.com details the new law and the positive reaction of the school...

• Jury returns verdict for family in a 4-car collision

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A California state jury awarded $3.7 million in damages to a family that suffered injuries during a crash involving vehicles owned by Harris Ranch Beef Co. and FedEx Ground Package System Inc. The jury found that California-based Harris Ranch should pay 80% of the damages and that Pittsburgh-based FedEx Ground, the trucking division of shipping giant FedEx Corp., should pay 20%. A husband,...

• Transportation fatalities up in 2005

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Transportation fatalities in the United States increased last year, according to preliminary figures released last month by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Deaths from transportation accidents in the United States in 2005 totaled 45,636, up from 45,092 in 2004. Based on our firm's experience in litigation relating to highway crashes, I was not at all surprised to learn of the...

• Three Toyota Executives Accused Of Failing To Recall Vehicles

  Tom Methvin | October 10, 2006 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three executives at Toyota Motor Corp., a company that built a global business on a reputation for quality, have been accused of failing to recall a vehicle they knew was faulty and could cause injuries in an accident. Interestingly, the accusation came from Japanese police officials. These officials filed papers with Japan's prosecutors' office relating to the need for a recall. It was alleged...