Automobile Accidents

• Two Cullman rollover accidents in just over an hour

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Last Friday in Cullman, Alabama, two separate rollover accidents occurred in one day. Fortunately, no one was killed in the motor vehicle accidents, but two were injured. The first accident involved a collision between two vehicles on Alabama Highway 157. The people in the overturned vehicle had no injuries, but an Iowa woman who was a passenger in the second vehicle was injured.Just over an...

• Truck driver charged with vehicular homicide

  Staff Writer | November 15, 2006 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Three tragic deaths occurred last year in Washington during a tractor trailer crash with another vehicle, killing a mother and her two young children. Yesterday a judge charged the truck driver with vehicular homicide because he had been driving longer than the federal law allows. According to a Washington State Patrol report, Nesbitt had been driving longer than allowed under federal...

• Car accident claims life of UA student

  Staff Writer | November 14, 2006 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Early Sunday morning in Atlanta a car with two University of Alabama students went off the road and rolled over, according to a report on DatelineAlabama.com. Tragically, the motor vehicle accident killed 21-year-old Brandy Nicole Murphy and injured senior basketball player Jermareo Davidson. Davidson was not seriously injured in the accident, and returned to Tuscaloosa Sunday night. Murphy's...

• Residents for speed reductions on dangerous highway

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

  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

  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...

• Fatal accident on U.S. Hwy. 84

  Staff Writer | October 31, 2006 8:58 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Yet another fatal auto accident was reported today in The Andalusua Star-News. The tragic story describes the deaths of two men, who were not wearing seat belts, thrown from the 1997 Pontiac Trans-Am when it veered off the road and struck a bridge abutment. The Alabama Department of Public Safety is still investigating the accident.

• Deadly accidents plague Alabama 20

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

  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

  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

  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....

• The Hidden Dangers Of Reclining Seats

  Tom Methvin | October 24, 2006 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Recently a jury in Jacksonville, Florida awarded $16.9 million to a young college student who was rendered a paraplegic in a motor vehicle accident. The student was a belted passenger in a Ford Windstar who had reclined her seatback. During the trip, the Windstar was involved in a low impact collision. Because the student's seat was reclined, the seatbelt did not hold her in place. As a result,...