Automobile Accidents

• Friday: Minnesota Winter Hazard Week — November 10-14, 2008

  Mike Bryant | November 14, 2008 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Sponsored annually by the Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) next week is Winter Hazard Safety week. Each day is devoted to a different topic...

• Florida Vision Test Works To Reduce Elderly Deaths On The Road

  Eddie Farah | November 14, 2008 12:06 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was almost five years ago now that Florida changed its law to require elderly drivers, age 80 and above, to have their vision tested before they renew their drivers license. It turns out that...

• Woman Buckles Up Infant As Her Last Act

  Eddie Farah | November 13, 2008 10:20 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A very sad story was in our paper this week. A woman, 39-year-old Kimberly Frazier, was driving south on U.S. 1 in Flagler County in northeast Florida. She drove her Chevy Blazer too close to a...

• Drunk Driver Kills One Teen and Injures Four Others

  Jamie Sheller | November 13, 2008 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Recently, 15 year old Jacklyn Gavares was killed and four of her friends were injured in a car accident in Monroe Township, N.J. As the 17 year old driver backed out of the driveway, the car was...

• Insurance Companies Delay, Deny, And Defend Further Explored

  Mike Bryant | November 13, 2008 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  The American Association for Justice (AAJ) this week released a follow up report to their list of the 10 worst Insurance companies. At that time the report discussed the tactics of Delay, Deny and...

• Is the Spree of Hit and Runs a Product of a Bad Economy?

  John Demas | November 13, 2008 6:23 PM | 1 CommentSacramento, CA

  Insurance is one of those monthly bills that people believe they can cut back on or do without during hard economic times. There are times when I really wish I didn’t have to shell out...

• Surprise! Vision Testing For Elderly Drivers May Decrease Car Wreck Fatalities

  Brooks Schuelke | November 13, 2008 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  A recent study by researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham has confirmed that Florida's mandatory vision testing for elderly drivers has greatly reduced the number of traffic fatalities....

• Impaired Driver Kills Passenger in High Speed Crash

  Todd Slaughter | November 13, 2008 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - A high speed broadside crash on Parkway Drive resulted in the death of a 29-year-old Crescent City woman and critical injuries to another. On Sunday evening, November 9,...

• Dallas Car Crash Attorney: Grimes County Wreck Kills Two Texas Tech Students

  Jeff Rasansky | November 12, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A car crash in Grimes County killed two Texas Tech University students and sent two others to a hospital with critical injuries. Jeffrey Michael Inns and Kyle Drew Anderson of Montgomery, were...

• Doctors Discover Tumor in Woman after Roll-Over Accident

  Amber Wheat | November 12, 2008 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  I am sure everybody heard about Shannon Goods’s 45 foot drop on I-5. She and her daughter were in her Ford Explorer when she swerved to the left to avoid another vehicle. The truck went over...