Automobile Accidents

• Keeping Kids Safe in Non-Traffic Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  President Bush today signed the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act.It attempts to prevent, albeit too slowly, many of the accidents we report about here that happen in a family's driveway - that is accidents where a child is run over because a relative can't see around their SUV.Cameron was a two-year-old who was killed by his father in the driveway five years ago. 230 children...

• Paducah Kentucy Man Killed Overnight in a Rollover Truck Wreck

  Daryl Dixon | February 28, 2008 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Roger Darnall of Paducah Kentucky was killed late last night when his truck overturned on U.S. 62 near Reildland at the intersection of Highway 1887. McCracken County Sheriff's Deputies closed the road for several hours to investigate the causes of the accident.

• Car Hits Davenport School Bus

  Shannon Weidemann | February 28, 2008 8:21 AM | 0 CommentsDavenport, IA

  A school bus from the Davenport public schools was hit by a car. The car & bus accident happened on Tuesday in winter road conditions on West 49th Street near Ditmer Street. The driver of the car was driving on a slushy West 49th Street, down a hill and around a curve, when her car slid into oncoming traffic and hit a Davenport school bus head-on. The bus ended up in a nearby snow drift....

• Head On Crash; 3 Seriously Injured; 2 Teens Hospitalized; Again, No Seat-Belt

  Mike Damaso | February 28, 2008 7:28 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Late Sunday in Brevard County, 2 teenagers were airlifted from the scene of a collision in serious condition and flown to the hospital. Unfortunately, it appears it is the result of not wearing seat-belts. Another man was seriously injured. According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, an 18 year-old woman was speeding when she lost control on a curve and crashed head-on with another car,...

• Dallas Student Killed in Semi Truck Accident

  RLF Staff | February 28, 2008 7:20 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A 20-year-old college student was one of two reported deaths in a freak accident Wednesday. An 18-wheeler ran off a freeway ramp in downtown Dallas and landed on a car. Ashley Parra, a political science major at the University of North Texas, was on her way to work at a local restaurant when the semi truck jumped over the freeway ramp and crushed her car with her inside. The driver, David...

• Kentucky Auto Accident Attorney

  Daryl Dixon | February 28, 2008 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY

  Seventeen People Die on Kentucky Roadways on the first week of the year. The Kentucky State Police reported Auto Accident and Wrongful Death Statistics for the first week of 2008. Fifteen of these fatalitiy vicitms were in Motor Vehicles and thirteen were not wearing seatbelts. Kentucky's mandatory seatbelt law took effect on the the First of January 2007. Three of the Fatalities Reported...

• Car Slams Into Tree, Driver and Passenger Trapped

  Chrissie Cole | February 27, 2008 11:54 PM | 0 CommentsBakersfield, CA

  A car accident, on Tuesday, trapped the driver and the passenger inside the vehicle when the car slammed into a tree, according to California Highway Patrol.The driver was traveling westbound on Camino Del Norte when the accident occurred. A Witness told California Highway Patrol officers that he heard tires screeching behind him and moments later a car had crashed into a tree.Rescue crews...

• Kentucky Personal Injury Attorney Part II

  Daryl Dixon | February 27, 2008 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY

  What does it mean to be a Kentucky Personal Injury Attorney?? My name is Daryl T. Dixon and I am a Kentucky Personal Injury Attorney. That means that the focus of my practice is on Kentucky Car Wreck Law. As a Kentucky Car Wreck Attorney that handles Serious Injury and Wrongful Death Claims, I feel like my No. 1 Duty is to educate my Client/Consumer base. I must educate my Friends,...

• Helpful Tips on Motorcycle Safety

  Drew Dixon | February 27, 2008 4:40 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Motorcycle dealers have seen a dramatic increase in the number of new motorcycle sales. With oil prices nearing $100 per barrel new unit sales of motorcycles have increased 24 percent since the last decade. In fact, new motorcycle sales annually top 1 million units. Unfortunately, with the increase in sales comes an increase in the number of motorcycle crashes and fatalities. According to...

• 18-Wheeler Falls from a Dallas Overpass Onto a Car

  RLF Staff | February 27, 2008 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  At least two people were killed when a tractor trailer fell from an overpass in downtown Dallas and landed on a car crushing it.The rig was traveling northbound on Woodall Rogers headed to Interstate 35 North when it lost control in the left lane and vaulted off the ramp.The rig landed on Continental Avenue in Dallas, where a vehicle was waiting to pass through an intersection.Dallas tractor...