Automobile Accidents

• Two Die in Collision near Independence

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsWichita, KS

  On Monday, two Cherryvale residents were killed in a car-semi collision east of Independence in Montgomery County. Gerald Steffen, 75 and Jeanette Steffen 68, were dead at the scene of the 1 p.m. accident, reported the Kansas Highway patrol. The report said Gerald Steffen was driving a 1996 Nissan pickup truck east on US-160 highway when he failed to stop at a stop sign and drove into the path...

• Driver Fatigue is Often the Cause of Trucking Accidents

  Jack Landskroner | December 12, 2006 9:16 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Time is money to truck drivers who are often paid by the trip rather than by the hour. Compensation by the trip is a telling factor indicative of a turn away from safety in the trucking industry where freight companies have become far less concerned about how a driver gets the product delivered than whether the product is delivered on time. This is simply a recipe for disaster which we have...

• Uninsured Motorist Coverage

  Rob McKinney | December 12, 2006 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Everybody that has automobile insurance should check their uninsured motorist coverage. A lot of drivers are carrying the bare minimum limits for liability which are $ 25,000 for a single occurence . Medical costs are skyrocketing and a simple accident could reach the limits of coverage. I see time and time again that there is not enough insurance coverage to make you whole...

• Bridge accident proves fatal

  Staff Writer | December 12, 2006 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  In a one-car accident early Sunday morning just north of Huntsville, a Madison county man driving across a bridge struck an abutment, causing his car to fall off the bridge and land at the river's edge. The accident is yet another tragic incident involving a lone driver in a one-car crash. Alabama police are still investigating the cause of the crash. It is unknown weather or not alcohol was a...

• Alabama's weekend auto accidents kill seven

  Staff Writer | December 12, 2006 8:19 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  An Associated Press story yesterday reported that seven people died in weekend motor vehicle accidents throughout the state of Alabama. The accidents include a head-on crash in Choctaw County that killed two men, a one-car accident in which the driver ran off a Madison County bridge, and other traffic fatalities in Baldwin and Lauderdale Counties. The tragic death toll for the weekend should be...

• Two Car Accident Injures 4

  Lee Coleman | December 12, 2006 6:29 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Saturday morning around 9:45 a.m. an accident occurred on Old Burkesville Road. A 17-year-old Albany resident was pulling onto Old Burkesville Road in his 1999 Chevrolet pickup when he was hit by a 1996 Nissan Sentra being driven by a 28 year old Albany resident. Two passengers were transported to Clinton County Hospital along with the driver of the Sentra. The 17-year old was treated at the...

• NW Alabama's 55th motor vehicle fatality

  Staff Writer | December 11, 2006 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Sadly, a one-car crash in Cloverdale early Saturday morning became the 55th motor-vehicle-related fatality in northwest Alabama and Tennessee's Lawrence and Wayne Counties this year. The one-car accident occurred on Lauderdale 11 just north of Florence in the Cloverdale community. Though the accident's cause was not reported, the driver was not wearing a seatbelt. This tragic accident also...

• Crash Injures 3

  Lee Coleman | December 11, 2006 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Thursday morning debris littered the roadway at the site of an accident on the Cumberland Parkway. Around 11:30 a.m. a pickup truck driven by a 36-yea-old Williamsburg resident and a tractor trailer driven by a 29-year-old of Reynolds Station were both westbound when the pickup truck was rear ended by the tractor trailer throwing it into the woods. The driver of the pickup had to be STAT...

• Deadly accident kills wife, mother

  Staff Writer | December 11, 2006 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  A married couple traveling to pick up their children from their grandmother's house ran off the road and into a ditch near midnight on Saturday, says a report from KJCT News 8 in Grand Junction. The motor vehicle accident involving a 1999 Jeep Cherokee killed the wife and injured the husband. The story says the wife was driving and not wearing her seatbelt. It's possible that excessive speed and...

• Woman Killed in Single-Motor Vehicle Accident

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 11:13 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Early Monday morning a 28-year-old woman was killed when the car she was riding in crashed on north state Route 163 approaching Interstate 8 in Mission Valley, said authorities.A man was driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer at high speed when he lost control of his car, spun and veered left, striking the center divider on SR-163 at about 1:08 a.m. said CHP Officer Alicia Contreras. A passenger in...