Automobile Accidents

• Kenosha Bus Accident Injures 22 Students

  Paul Jacquart | September 07, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  WTMJ4 reports that 22 Bradford High School students were injured in a bus crash in Kenosha on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. According to the article, the bus crashed into a car driven by another Bradford High School student who reportedly pulled in front of the bus cutting it off on 39th Avenue, south of Bradford High School. Another news report from WSAW indicates that the car subsequently...

• How Does a Car Get Hit By a Train

  Ben Glass | September 07, 2007 1:20 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  I always wondered how a car could get hit by a train. I mean, trains are big, noisy things.Here is a very disturbing video of a mom who's 2 children died when she tried to beat a train in an intersection and managed to get hit by two trains.Two trains hit mom in minivan video.This is very tragic.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle...

• DUI Traffic Hazards

  Joe Saunders | September 07, 2007 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  In 2005, Pinellas County had 1,631 alcohol-related crashes in Pinellas County, resulting in 1,162 injuries and 39 fatalities. During the same year, Hillsborough County authorities arrested more than 7,000 drivers for suspicion of driving under the influence. Unfortunately, this is still a huge problem in the Tampa Bay area. According to statistics, 38% of traffic deaths in Florida are...

• Mother Attempting to Outrun Train, Crashes, and Kills Two Children

  Jenny Albano | September 06, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A women in Indiana tried to outrun a freight train by cutting through a parking lot and making a quick turn, but failed to notice another train coming from the other direction. The westbound train hit the car and ran it into the eastbound train. Two of her children were pronounced dead on the scene, and the women, Edie Bolanos, is in critical condition.Authorities released a surveillance video...

• Car Accident Leaves Parents Pushing For Traffic Lights

  Staff Writer | September 06, 2007 2:02 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH

  A 13 year old boy was hit by a car on his way to school last week, and the accident has parents of Toledo-area children pushing to add traffic lights in front of the school.Toledo police say the eighth grader's parents were dropping him off Tuesday morning when they let him out in the middle of Glendale Ave. "They made a bad decision at the time," said Molly McHugh Branyan, candidate for Toledo...

• Troopers Have a New Goal: Lower Fatalities

  Pete Strom | September 06, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  South Carolina state troopers are hitting the roads in the Midlands in an effort to reduce fatalities in those areas. Teams of troopers in the area are focusing only on stopping speeders and drunk drivers, in response to rising traffic death rates.During the first six months of 2007, seventy people died in Richland, Lexington, and Kershaw counties, a statistic that includes eleven more deaths...

• Girl Runs For School Bus Collides With Car

  Eddie Farah | September 06, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The 16-year-old thought she might miss the school bus. Today she is in critical condition at Shands after being hit by a car she didn't see while running for the bus. Tiffany Williams had just been dropped off by her mother at Dunn Avenue and Haverford Road on the northside. The young woman ran across Dunn Street to catch the 7 a.m. bus taking her to First Coast High School, apparently unaware...

• Pedestrians in Jeopardy From Speeding Cruisers

  Jane Akre | September 05, 2007 6:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  When police are responding to a call, or sometimes even when they are not, pedestrians and bicyclists need to be especially aware of police cruisers. In Jacksonville, a 16-year old was serious hurt when he rode his bicycle into the path of a JSO police vehicle Tuesday afternoon. It happened when Randolph Ross pulled into McQuade Street from Barber Street right in front of a westbound police...

• Mom charged with child abuse in drunk driving driving accident

  Dan Deuterman | September 05, 2007 12:05 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Not only was she allegedly driving drunk, but police said a Mebane woman who flipped a car with four children inside was driving on a revoked license. All five people in the car were hospitalized. Sherrill Shauntel Garner, 28, was driving east on Interstates 40/85, east of University Drive in Burlington when she lost control of her 1986 BMW. None of the passengers were wearing seatbelts or...

• Virginia Teenagers Killed in Bed of Pickup Truck

  Shannon Weidemann | September 05, 2007 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Two teenagers from Cana, Virginia were killed after riding in the bed of a pickup truck. A third victim was killed after not wearing a seatbelt in the cab of the truck. The truck was being driven by an underage and unlicensed driver. The car accident happened on Sunday in Hillsville. The accident occurred on Virginia 690 in Carroll County, about two miles north of the North Carolina border....