Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• One Car Crash Leaves Georgia Teen Dead

  M. Brandon Smith | January 16, 2007 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Georgia's dangerous roadways claim yet another teen driver's life as J.C. Ferrel, a Central High School student, lost control of his vehicle and died as a result on Monday night. The 17-year-old honor student and athlete was returning home from work when his vehicle apparently hydroplaned off Highway 166 in Bowden. The Carroll County accident marks yet another tragic loss of life on our State's...

• Pedestrian Accident Leaves One Woman Seriously Injured in Georgia

  M. Brandon Smith | January 16, 2007 8:14 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a recent pedestrian accident in Cleveland, Georgia, a woman was serious injured as she tried to cross the road on south main street. The woman, who has yet to be identified, was struck by an oncoming vehicle that apparently did not see her until it was too late. Witnesses of the accident said the unidentified driver tried to avoid the pedestrian but was unable to do so. The pedestrian was...

• Tractor Trailer Leaves The Scene Of The Accident It Purportedly Caused

  M. Brandon Smith | January 14, 2007 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A tractor trailer that reportedly caused a three car auto accident caused major delays to traffic and left one overturned vehicle demolished. Witnesses say the tractor trailer, which was not stuck in the accident, was the cause of the accident but left the scene of the accident despite the driver's negligent actions. The driver of the demolished truck tried to avoid the tractor trailer and...

• 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...