Automobile Accidents

• Houston Boy Injured in Pedestrian Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | August 28, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  An 11-year-old boy from Houston was injured in a pedestrian accident on Long Point on Friday evening. The boy had run out into the street where he was hit by a pickup truck. His injuries were severe and he was flown by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Guevara was driving a Chevrolet pickup in the left lane of the road way when the accident occurred.Investigators do not believe...

• Hulk Hogan's Son Released from Hospital

  Courtney Mills | 2007-08-28T11:29:15 | 0 Comments

  Nick Bollea, 17, the son of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, was released from Bayfront Medical Center with minor injuries after a terrible car wreck Sunday night around 7:30.According to Clearwater police spokesman Wayne Shelor, Bollea and friend John J. Graziano of Dunedin were driving down State Road 60 in downtown Clearwater when Bollea lost control of his Toyota Supra. Bollea then veered...

• Terrible Motor Vehicle Accident Involving a Tractor-Trailer In Colleton County in South Carolina Sends Victim to Trauma Center

  Amy Rothschild | 2007-08-28T09:38:25 | 0 Comments

  On August 19, 2007, the Colleton County Fire-Rescue in South Carolina responded to a two-vehicle accident on I-95 at the 59-mile marker. A northbound tractor-trailer, which was traveling at a high rate of speed through a work zone, struck a painting truck in the rear end. This was after the same tractor trailer nearly sideswiped a State Trooper. Despite being equipped with an impact cusion, the...

• Driver in Critical Condition After SUV Rolls Over

  Chrissie Cole | 2007-08-28T02:11:31 | 0 Comments

  A woman is in critical condition, after losing control of her SUV and rolling over in a car accident this morning, near Cilley Road and Ohio 128.The 1997 GMC Jimmy driven by a 28-year-old woman, of Hamilton, was traveling southbound on Ohio 128, when she lost control of the vehicle causing her to veer off the right side of the road, rolling over several times before coming to rest in a drainage...

• Officer Dies in Bush Motorcade Accident

  Jenny Albano | 2007-08-27T22:46:02 | 0 Comments

  A police officer died Monday, August 26, in a motorcycle accident that took place during President Bush's motorcade to the Albuquerque airport. Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, crashed at the Albuquerque airport at a point where a road enters an underground parking garageCasey was pronounced dead at a local Albuquerque hospital.According to Trish Hoffman, an Albuquerque Police Department...

• Person Killed in Charlotte Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | 2007-08-27T22:06:34 | 0 Comments

  A man was killed in a single car accident in Charlotte last week. He drove the car into a utility pole and then a building. Rescue teams had to use the Jaws of Life. The victim died at the scene of the accident. It happened off of Old Concord Road in northeast Charlotte.Investigators believe the driver of the car was driving too fast when he hit a sharp curve in the road. That caused the...

• Pedestrian Killed in Hit and Run in Castro in San Francisco

  Claude Wyle | 2007-08-27T16:29:20 | 0 Comments

  San Francisco Pedestrian Roger Tennyson, 77, was killed instantly by a speeding car in the Castro on Sunday, according to Larry Bartholomew, 66, his partner of 15 years. Tennyson had just parked his own car when an unidentified vehicle estimated to be going 70 to 80 miles per hour hit him outside his Castro home on the 100 block of Sanchez Street at 1:30 a.m. He had been a San Francisco resident...

• Weekend Crash Kills One and Injures Another

  Jamie G. Goldstein | 2007-08-27T14:54:52 | 0 Comments

  Victorino Lopez-Mendoza was pronounced dead early Sunday morning after his vehicle was involved in an accident with a semi-trailer truck. Lopez-Mendoza was pulling out of a parking lot near Irving Park Road and Walnut when his side of the car was hit by the semi-trailer truck. Another man was also injured. No citations were issued, and there is no current information on who was at fault for...

• Court Permits Hospitals to Charge "Maximum Rates" to Those Who Can Least Afford It

  Geoff Trachtenberg | 2007-08-27T14:43:32 | 0 Comments

  Division One just handed down Banner Health v. Medical Savings Ins. Co., a terrible opinion which deals with whether a hospital can charge a patient and its "non-network insurer" full billed amounts historically paid by only two percent of all patients. The answer, for now, is yes in a two-to-one decision.Incidentally, by "non-network insurer," I mean to refer to an insurer who has no agreement...

• Motorcycle Crash

  Joe Stanley | 2007-08-27T10:57:38 | 0 Comments

  Another bad motorcycle crash in cayuga county shows that we all need to pay attention to all those who use the highways. A moments inattention can have terrible consequences.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.