Automobile Accidents

• Elderly Long Beach Man Dies in Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | May 16, 2007 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A car accident killed an 82-year-old man from Long Beach. The man was a resident at a nursing home and was being driven to a doctor's appointment by a nursing home employee. The accident happened on Willow Street near Studebaker Road. "She asked him a question, and he didn't answer, and she turned around to check on him," Kohnlein said. Zepeda took her eyes off the road, veered over to the...

• The Springtime Teen Carnage Continues: Another Unbelted Teen Dies

  Mike Ferrara | May 16, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  As we have discussed several times before in this space, teen driving is a national problem. Allstate Insurance Company is running full page ads trying to raise the national consciousness level of this horrendous problem, one that is largely being ignored by the national media. Another 17-year-old was pronounced brain dead yesterday in South Carolina after suffering a traumatic brain injury...

• Pedestrian Killed by Pregnant Drunk Driver

  Christina Cole | May 16, 2007 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A woman lost her life in a pedestrian accident on Highway 9, Monday, when an intoxicated pregnant woman drove off the side of the rode, striking her with her vehicle, reports California Highway Patrol.California Highway Patrol was trying to piece together the chain of events that led up to the fatal accident.Fire Rescue was first on the scene where they discovered the driver had run her pickup...

• Insurance Companies - Profit over Care

  Rob Quattrocci | May 16, 2007 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  Insurance companies routinely deny treatment to there clients based on reviews which indicate that the treatment is not necessary. A fictional movie depicting this behavior was made by John Grisham. The Rain Maker involves a story line where an insurance company intentionally withholds treatment to ensure larger profits. Although fictional and very dramatic such activities occur on a daily...

• Insurance Companies - Profit over care

  Rob Quattrocci | May 16, 2007 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsSyracuse, NY

  Insurance companies routinely deny treatment to there clients based on reviews which indicate that the treatment is not necessary. A fictional movie depicting this behavior was made by John Grisham. The Rain Maker involves a story line where an insurance company intentionally withholds treatment to ensure larger profits. Although fictional and very dramatic such activities occur on a daily...

• Wheel comes off tractor-trailer

  Barry Doyle | May 16, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Outside Seattle last week, a wheel assembly came off a tractor trailer while it was moving, bounded over the median, and smashed into the windshield of a minivan going in the other direction.The front seat passenger of the minivan was killed instantly. An inspection of the tractor trailer after the accident showed that the brake system to the trailer had come apart.Before going out on the road,...

• Toddler Accidentally Run Over by Family Member

  Ryan Nute | May 16, 2007 8:33 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  18-month old Mariana Lopez was struck and killed, apparently after a family member accidentally backed over her.The accident occurred the 26200 block of 195th Place Southeast in the Covington area of southeast King County. The girl was admitted to Harborview Medical Center but died from her injuries. Police are still investigating the accident.This very sad case is made even more complicated...

• Bizarre Attack by Motor Vehicle in Lakewood Injures Crowd

  Ryan Nute | May 16, 2007 8:20 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  John Derrek Clark is in the Pierce County Jail after driving his girlfriend's car into a crowd of people at a Lakewood, Washington apartment complex, injuring several.Apparently this bizarre incident happened after Mr. Clark got into an argument with his girlfriend and was told to slow down while speeding through the apartment complex's parking lot. A fistfight ensued, Mr. Clark got back into...

• Burien Collision Kills Elderly Woman in Crosswalk

  Ryan Nute | May 16, 2007 8:16 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA

  Police are looking for the driver who struck an elderly woman on Tuesday in Burien, Washington and left the scene of the motor vehicle accident. The woman has been identifed as 81-year old Valerie Glass.The collision happened yesterday afternoon at Southwest 134th Street and Ambaum Boulevard Southwest. The woman was in a marked crosswalk. One car stopped, but another car in the next lane did...

• Driver Hits Two Pedestrians on Beach, One Dead

  Christina Cole | May 16, 2007 12:14 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL

  A 24-year-old driver, suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, struck two pedestrians in a car accident on Fort Myers Beach, Saturday, killing one, said Florida Highway Patrol.The accident occurred just after 9:30 p.m. on Main Street.FHP says the victims, a 55-year-old man and an unidentified woman were crossing the street when they were hit by a car. The impact caused the windshield...