Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Tragic early morning Thanksgiving car accident

  Staff Writer | November 27, 2006 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An early morning single-car accident on Thanksgiving left one teen dead and one in critical condition, a report from the associated press said. The 17-year-old boy driving the car died at the scene, while the other three passengers lived. The 17-year-old male passenger was in critical condition at hte University of South Alabama Medical Center, and the other two passengers, a 15-year-old girl...

• A Dangerous RV Tire - The Goodyear 159 - Has Caused Problems

  Tom Methvin | October 18, 2006 2:50 PM | 2 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Beasley Allen Law Firm has handled numerous cases against tire manufacturers when their tires failed causing accidents and injuries. As you may know, one of the most serious types of failure of a steel belted radial tire is a de-tread and/or belt separation. Because of the stress concentrations and subsequent high internal temperatures at the edge of the belt, this area is particularly sensitive...

• Car accident claims life of man without seatbelt

  Staff Writer | September 03, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A deadly, two-car accident in Mississippi yesterday claimed the life of an Alabama man who was not wearing his seatbelt. The Mississippi Press reports on the motor vehicle accident, which occurred on the U.S. 90 bridge in Pascagoula, and involved a Toyota Camry and a Toyota Tacoma. The report says the man driving the Tacoma hit the Camry from behind, causing the fatal accident. The Tacoma...

• Mobile Woman Killed in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 13, 2008 10:44 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Mobile woman, 27, died from injuries she suffered in a car accident, on Friday, when the car she was driving overturned.The woman was ejected from her automobile, although authorities have confirmed she was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, reported a spokesman for Saraland Police Department.She was traveling alone in her Honda Accord when it flipped several times on her way home...

• Seven auto accident fatalities over weekend

  Staff Writer | December 26, 2006 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The sad statistics for Alabama's Christmas weekend motor vehicle accidents were reported in yesterday's Montgomery Advertiser. Seven people died and six were hospitalized as a result of weekend accidents throughout the state. One of the deadly accidents involved two cars on U.S. 82 just south of Montgomery. The accident killed four people, according to reports.Another accident occurred on I-85...

• Alabama House Bill to give Road Contractors Immunity

  Tedford Taylor | May 01, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Members of the Alabama House of Representatives seek to introduce HB 382 which would give total civil immunity to road contractors working on state projects within the specifications of the contract. If passed, this bill would provide that a contractor performing highway, road, or street repairs, construction or maintenance is not liable for damage or injury resulting therefrom despite the...

• Deadly accident on Alabama Highway 35

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2007 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A two-car accident on Alabama Highway 35 Monday morning left a man dead, according to a report from The Daily Sentinel of Jackson County. The accident involved two pick-up trucks, one of them a landscape/lawn maintenance truck driven by the a Huntsville man who owned the business. The victim was apparently a passenger in the lawn/landscape truck, which was pulling an extended cab. Both vehicles...

• Fatal car accident kills two people

  Staff Writer | May 15, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Dothan, Alabama's News 4 reports a deadly car accident that tragically killed two 78-year-olds on Thursday night on State Route 30 in Bay County, Florida. The accident happened when a 17-year-old crossed the median and hit the couple head-on. It is presumed that the two victims died instantly, and the report says that neither were wearing seat belts. The condition of the teen in the other car...

• Underage driver causes fatal car accident

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2007 1:23 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A sad story out of Wilmer, Alabama, reports that a 13-year-old boy driving a car full of older teens caused a fatal car crash last night. Alabama state troopers reported that the underage driver crossed the center line of the road on U.S. 98 near Big Creek Lake, then overcorrected causing the car to flip. A 16-year-old boy thrown from the car died, and a 17-year-old girl was injured. This tragic...

• Police Investigating Hit-and-Run Accident

  Christina Cole | January 30, 2007 10:27 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Former Auburn student was involved in a hit-and-run accident on South College Street on Sunday morning.Erin Klein, 22, was leaving Bodega with her boyfriend Cory Kuczynski and their friends when Klein was hit crossing College Street while making her way to her car, that was parked behind Mellow Mushroom."I was walking back to my car across the street and as soon as I turned back around, I heard...