Automobile Accidents

• Joliet drunk driver hits ambulance

  Barry Doyle | May 07, 2007 10:30 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  In Joliet last weekend, a drunk driver blew a stop light and hit an ambulance which was taking a heart attack patient to the hospital. The ambulance rolled over and hit two other vehicles which were waiting for it to clear the intersection.The heart attack patient died later at the hospital. Authorities are trying to determine whether the accident played a role in his passing. The ambulance...

• 1 Killed, 2 Injured in Car Accident Involving Stolen Car

  Christina Cole | May 07, 2007 10:23 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  A woman was killed and two other drivers were injured in a car accident that sent two cars crashing into the wall of a house in Las Vegas.Police say the woman was a passenger in a stolen Toyota sedan that struck a Nissan, causing both vehicles to then crash into the unoccupied home.The driver of the Toyota, is in surgery and is expected to face charges that include vehicular manslaughter when he...

• Tragic Michigan Car Accident Death

  Larry Buckfire | May 07, 2007 9:24 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  A tragic Michigan car accident death case was reported today in the local papers. A twenty year old University of Michigan apparently was sitting behind the wheel of her car and was waiting for her mother to enter into the open passenger side door. The driver accidentally must have hit the accelerator and the vehicle fatally struck her mother. This sad case illustrates what we often see at my...

• Drunk Driving Takes Young Lives.

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | May 07, 2007 3:01 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  A well written letter to the editor in a recent Virginia Pilot talked about the loss of young lives in the context of the recent Virginia Tech tragedy.No words can comfort a parent who has lost a child. That is probably one of the hardest and most unnatural types of grief in the world. The author noted that the leading cause of death in young people around the world is traffic injuries. In the...

• Muliple Car Accident on Freeway in Maple Grove

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Multiple cars and trucks were involved in an accident on Interstate 94 in Maple Grove on April 23rd. The accident happened in the morning and had traffic backed up for hours. The state patrol is still piecing together what happened; but we do know that the accident involved a city of Minneapolis dump truck, a semi-truck, and at least four other vehicles. One person was airlifted to a local...

• Sorority House Hit by Truck in Lawrence

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  A Kansas University Sorority House was hit by a pickup truck on Sunday morning. The driver of the pickup was being pursued by police after he was seen breaking car windows in a parking lot and threatening people with a knife. While traveling west on Jayhawk Boulevard, the truck ran into and over the cement barriers that protect a traffic control booth before being launched over the Chi Omega...

• Roanoke Car Accident Ends in Misdemeanor

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A 69-year-old man from Falls Church, Virginia has been charged with misdemeanor death with a motor vehicle following. The charge stems from a car accident in which his 65-year-old wife was killed. He was driving on Interstate 95 when he struck a camping trailer that was on the shoulder of the road. The trooper said he did not believe heavy winds played a factor in the crash. The estimated...

• West Hartford Car Accident Injures Pedestrian

  James Sabatini | May 07, 2007 1:35 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  In West Hartford, Connecticut, a woman was struck by a car on Sunday night. She was taken to the hospital where she remains - fighting for her life. The woman was walking on Albany Avenue near Starkel Road in West Hartford at about 11 p.m. at the time of the incident. The accident remains under police investigation.

• Motorcyle and Car Collide in Waipahu

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  A motorcyle carrying a driver and passenger collided with a Toyota Corolla on Farrington Highway in Waipahu, Honolulu. The accident happened Friday April 27th. All three of the people involved in the motorcyle-car accident are from Waipahu. According to police, the crash happened at 11:27 p.m., 216 feet west of Awamoku Street, when an eastbound yellow 2002 Suzuki motorcycle driven by a...

• Disastrous Distractions

  Ken Margolin | May 07, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Driving while chowing down a donut, alternating the snack with a cup of hot coffee, is a time-honored example of dangerous, distracted driving. Even though driving safety researchers preached that drinking a beverage while driving, could lead to car crashes due to distraction, human nature dictated that eating and drinking while driving, was never going to stop. The ante was raised with the...