Posts tagged collision

• Dangerous Trailers - Why Did Michael Davison Die In Kona? - Regulation = Prevention!

  Wayne Parsons | September 19, 2009 4:42 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Why did Michael Davison die at 49 in Kona? He was minding his own business and being responsible. His SUV was slammed by a run-away trailer carrying canoes. I described it as a freak accident. I...

• Trailer Hitch Failure Leads to Death of Michael Davison in Kona on Sunday

  Wayne Parsons | September 07, 2009 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Deadly automobile accidents continue to plague the Big Island roads. Our condolences go out to the family of a 49-year-old California man who was killed on Sunday in a freak accident on Queen...

• Why Are Fatal Traffic Accidents in Honolulu Concentrated In Downtown and Iwilei?

  Wayne Parsons | September 06, 2009 3:28 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Let take the off ramp on the H-1 Interstate Highway and cut through Downtown Honolulu over to the Iwilei area and Nimitz Highway. For the past wek a group of Injury Board affiliates across the...

• Interstate Highways From Michigan to Iowa to Hawaii

  Wayne Parsons | August 25, 2009 2:25 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Devon Glass from Church Wyble, P.C. and Steve Lombardi from The Lombardi Law Firm are experimenting with a joint project about highway safety. They are looking at trends and tendencies of accidents...

• Maui Motorcycle Crash Leaves Lahaina Man In Critical Condition

  Wayne Parsons | August 17, 2009 12:31 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  I have written at length about the increasing statistics of death and injury to motorcycle riders in Hawaii. Motorcycle Deaths Skyrocket On Oahu Today a Lahaina man is fighting for his life after...

• Washington, D.C. Nightmare As Metro Trains Collide-- As Many As 7 Dead and Over 70 Injured

  Wayne Parsons | June 23, 2009 4:14 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Probably the favorite rail system in the United States, the Washington D.C. Metrolink system is now the focus of one of the worst rail crash cases in history. The Wall Street Journal reports 9 dead...

• Wrong-way Drivers Cause Three Percent (3%) of U.S. Traffic Fatalities

  Wayne Parsons | June 22, 2009 5:30 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wrong-way automobile accidents constitute about three perscent (3%) of automobile related deaths each year on U.S. roads. I am...

• Keaau Motorcycle Crash sadly Results in Two Deaths

  Wayne Parsons | June 03, 2009 1:15 PM | 5 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A story in the Honolulu Advertiser confirms that a 36 year old man and his 7 year old son died Sunday night crash in Pahoa on the Big Island. Police officers from Puna identified the two people...

• Car Crash at Lusitana and Kuakini in Honolulu - Woman Injured

  Wayne Parsons | June 03, 2009 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A report in the Honolulu Advertiser identifies the mother of penelope Tukimaka as the person taken to the hospital by ambulance after a car accident in Honolulu. Mrs. Tukimaka was allegedly on...

• Eighteen Students Injured in Two Separate School Bus - Automobile Accidents On Oahu

  Wayne Parsons | May 31, 2009 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  No school bus automobile accidents all year and then two on one day late in May. Hopefully none of the eighteen students are seriously injured although they were taken to area hospitals for...