Posts tagged automobile

• Rachel's Wish Lives On

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As a big support of the public safety and prevention organization KidsAndCars.org, the story today on CNN about Rachel is worth talking about. Rachel was killed in an automobile crash when she was...

• Fire safety in the home and cars prevents injury and death.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2011 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two news stories reminded me of the perils of fire in our homes and cars. A truck caught fire on the H-1 Freeway at the Kaneohe and Aiea off ramp heading east at 7:40 am on Friday, August 12, 2011,...

• Hawaii is significantly reducing automobile accident deaths

  Wayne Parsons | August 09, 2011 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The 6,618 automobile fatalities in the first quarter of 2011 are a grim reminder of the importance of safe driving. The National Hawaii Traffic Safety Adminstration (NHTSA) reports that deaths...

• Another Pedestrian Dies in Honolulu - why?

  Wayne Parsons | August 03, 2011 5:04 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Pedestrian deaths area chronic problem in Hawaii. I have written extensively on the subject in the past and today another death has renewed my interest. KITV News Now reported today...

• Emily Midgley Dies in Big Island Hay Ride on Halloween

  Wayne Parsons | November 02, 2009 11:47 AM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The Star Bulletin story Halloween hay ride proves fatal to Big Isle girl, 7 reports that Emily Midgley of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates jumped off of a trailer at the end of a hay ride and was run...

• Was the Death of 5-Year-Old Aidon Ng Due To A Seat-back Failure?

  Wayne Parsons | September 07, 2009 3:24 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Why do people die in car crashes? Some answers are easy. Some are hidden from view. I imagine myself tonight with the Ng family in Waimea. Three family members are dead. My wife died last year. I...

• Chrysler Bankruptcy Update: Car Giant To Accept More Product Liability Claims.

  Wayne Parsons | August 28, 2009 6:47 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The AP (8/27) reported, Chrysler Group LLC said Thursday it will accept product liability claims in a broader number of cases than originally planned in its reorganization under bankruptcy...

• Hilo Motorcycle Death On Hawaii Belt Road Leads To Negligent Homicide Investigation

  Wayne Parsons | July 18, 2009 3:07 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  In another sad day on Hawaii roads Hilo resident Joseph Flood, Sr., died as he road his Harley Davidson motorcycle north on Hawaii Belt Road (Route 11). The call came into police at 11:55 A.M. on...

• Sad Day For Americans: Judge Allows GM to Escape Payments to Victims of Injury and Death From Defective GM Cars

  Wayne Parsons | July 08, 2009 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  If the damage done to the American economy, American workers and all of us by the inept and perhaps crooked management at General Motors (GM), The U.S. Treasury and now a federal judge have told...

• Judge approves GM asset sale, clearing way for restructuring.

  Wayne Parsons | July 06, 2009 2:29 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On the front page of its business section the New York Times (7/6, B1, De La Merced) reports that US Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert E. Gerber approved a plan by General Motors late on Sunday to...