Posts tagged fatality

• Sharing the Road in North Carolina- Scary Statistics About Motorcycle Accidents

  Rick Shapiro | November 17, 2009 3:35 PM | 1 CommentGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  To some, there is no greater rush then taking a motorcycle out on an open North Carolina (NC) highway on a clear, sunny day. Riding a motorcycle along Highway 441 through the Great Smokey Mountains...

• Handheld Hazards of Cell Phone Use While Driving

  Emily Mapp Brannon | November 12, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Although laws about cell phone usage while driving have been implemented, fact remains that accidents caused by this is still prevalent among teens and even adults. An estimated million people each...

• SUV Causes Motorcyclist’s Fatality in Brunswick County

  Randy Appleton | November 10, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Joseph Roger Cross, 32 died Friday afternoon after he was hit by an SUV on his motorcycle last Friday in Brunswick County, NC. North Carolina Highway Patrol reported that Cross was driving his...

• Motivational Guru from hit Movie “The Secret” has 2 Lawsuits Filed after Sweat-Lodge Deaths

  Rick Shapiro | November 05, 2009 12:36 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In what certainly could be many more to follow, the first two lawsuits against the self-help guru, James Ray, who once appeared in the hit documentary called “The Secret”, has been...

• Guilford County Hit and Run Kills Greensboro, N.C. Man

  Emily Mapp Brannon | November 04, 2009 12:29 AM | 2 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Friends of David Sherman, 55 were shocked when they heard of his death last Saturday. Sherman was the Vice President of Trinity-based Sealy Corporation and played violin in the Greensboro...

• British Woman Sentenced to Jail in Texting-While-Driving Fatality

  Pierce Egerton | November 02, 2009 8:54 AM | 3 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While awareness of the texting-while-driving epidemic is growing, the United Kingdom is one of the few countries that are aggressively prosecuting people whose texting causes tragic accidents on the...

• Tractor-Trailer Accident Causes Fatality in Concord, North Carolina

  Randy Appleton | October 31, 2009 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tractor-trailer owned by Martin's Abbatoir Wholesale Meat Company carrying a truck load of cattle over turned on Interstate 85 in Concord, North Carolina (NC) injuring one person and killing...

• Raleigh Motorcyclist Dies after Hit-Run by Van

  Randy Appleton | October 29, 2009 12:04 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A Raleigh man died at Mount Carmel West Hospital after sustaining serious injuries from a crash on the hilltop of Hague Avenue just inside the city. According to police, the man was riding his...

• Fall-Related Death of Worker at Norfolk Sanitation Plant Under Investigation

  Rick Shapiro | October 23, 2009 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Randy Piche, a long-time Hampton Roads Sanitation District employee, died Tuesday morning after falling through an opening on a third-floor walkway at the Army Base Treatment Plant in Norfolk on...

• MLK Parkway Accident Critically Injures 4 People, Leaving One Dead

  Rick Shapiro | October 19, 2009 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last Wednesday, just after 9:00 a.m. a six-car accident happened at the intersection of Kerr Avenue and Martin Luther King Parkway in Wilmington, North Carolina (N.C.) leaving one dead and 4 in...