Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Trucking Accident Causes Additional Injuries In A Subsequent Collision

  M. Brandon Smith | January 14, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Everyone who has ever driven on a public highway or interstate has seen tractor-trailers (aka semis or 18-wheelers) and knows how dangerous they can be if not operated properly. A recent trucking accident on I-75 involving a tractor-trailer is just the latest example. In this rather bizarre accident, a truck driver side swiped a patrol car and careened into an ambulance that had just responded...

• Train Accident With A Car Leaves One Woman Dead

  M. Brandon Smith | January 14, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a deadly accident last week involving a vehicle and a train, one woman died after her vehicle became stuck on the tracks of the train. The train accident, which occurred in Taylors, South Carolina, involved a 73-year-old woman, Betty Van Sisk, who could not get across the tracks before the crossing arms came down as the train approached the intersection. The impact from the train forced...

• Drinking And Driving Is Never A Good Combination

  M. Brandon Smith | January 10, 2007 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a recent posting by a fellow InjuryBoard.com partner, Ed Smith, of the Law Officers of Edward A. Smith, the topic of drinking and driving is discussed in terms of what happens after some is injured due to the negligence of a drunk or impaired driver. In many instances the end result of such a reckless act often ends in serious injury and/or death to those involved. And more times than not,...

• Cell Phone Ban Bill For Teen Driver's Contemplated In General Assembly

  M. Brandon Smith | January 10, 2007 9:37 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Now that the Georgia General Assembly has reconvened to tackle this year's important tasks and to address the State's needed changes, one topic that is expected to come up soon concerns the use of cell phones by teens while driving. According to the gwinnettdailypost.com:A bill prefiled in the House for this winter's legislative session would prohibit 16-year-old and 17-year-old drivers from...

• Fatal Auto Accident Leaves One Man Dead

  M. Brandon Smith | January 10, 2007 9:23 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Yet another fatal accident has occurred in Liberty County after a Midway resident loses his life in an auto accident on Highway 84. Just before the Christmas holidays, John McGrath, now deceased, was heading east on 84 in his suv when another driver, Shania Simmons, 17, turned in front of his vehicle therein causing the accident. McGrath's suv violently slammed into Simmons' Honda on the...

• 13-Year-Old Dies In Stolen Car Chase

  M. Brandon Smith | January 09, 2007 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In another tragic auto accident, a 13-year-old boy, Ahkeem Rodriguez Mathews, lost his life Sunday night as the vehicle he was riding in crashed after being chased by police. The driver of the vehicle, a 16-year-old minor, was said to have taken the car without permission when it violently slammed into a telephone pole according to Maj. Tim Robinson of the Clayton County Police Department. It is...

• Drunk Pedestrian Dies After Trying To Cross The Road In Columbus

  M. Brandon Smith | January 09, 2007 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a second alcohol related accident in the Columbus, Georgia area, a pedestrian was struck and killed by another driver as he was trying to cross the road. Jack L. Whitten, 54, of Columbus, was struck and killed by a vehicle traveling on Veterans Parkway near 14th Street according to the authorities. Whitten, whose blood alcohol content was said to be .361, died shortly after the accident at...

• Georgia Holiday Season More Deadly Than Predicted On State's Roadways

  M. Brandon Smith | January 07, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Christmas holiday period in Georgia was more dangerous and deadly than previously expected on the State's roads and highways according to the Georgia State Patrol. Each year based on detailed research and analysis, the Georgia State Patrol puts out statistics of how many auto accidents and deaths it expects to occur during the busy Christmas holiday season. This year the predictions were off...

• Driver Flees The Scene After Causing Accident And Injuries

  M. Brandon Smith | January 07, 2007 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Driver in auto accident flees the scene to avoid liability for his actions in Gainesville, Georgia according to police. According to Sgt. Shawn Welsh, the driver of the other vehicle struck in the auto accident was ejected from his vehicle and is currently recovering from his serious yet stable injuries after being taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center. The accident occurred on Jesse Jewell...

• Death Ensues After Alcohol Related Auto Accident

  M. Brandon Smith | January 07, 2007 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An alcohol related auto accident ends in death in Columbus, Georgia over the Christmas holidays according to the Columbus police department. In the auto accident, Joseph Ryan McConnell, 22, lost control of his vehicle around 3:30 a.m. on Manchester Expressway near Reese Road which subsequently lead to the death of his passenger Rebecca Partain of Midland, Georgia. McConnell was subsequently...