Posts tagged car accident

• Facing tough economic times, NH reconsiders seat belt law

  Carrie Strasser | February 06, 2009 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  New Hampshire is the only state in the country that does not have a seat belt law, says the Eagle-Tribune in an article on Thursday. On Tuesday, the House Transportation Committee considered a...

• MA Insurance Board of Appeal to be Dissolved

  Carrie Strasser | March 02, 2009 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On April 1, the Division of Insurance Board of Appeal, that hears approximately 50,000 motor vehicle insurance surcharge cases annually, will be dissolved reported the Boston Globe. The decision,...

• Fatal Train Crash Caused by Human Error

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A crash that occurred last year was found to be caused by human error and failure to follow safety procedures by the National Transportation Safety Board. The collision of a commuter train and a maintenance truck took the lives of two track workers in Woburn.The crash occurred on Jan. 9, 2007, when the engineer of southbound Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Train 322 received a clear signal...

• Teenage Boy Killed in Somerset Crash

  Jenny Albano | February 10, 2008 6:44 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An 18 year-old from Fall River was killed in a car accident on Saturday, February 9. Corey Leite was driving the car when he hit a tree and utility pole and was pronounced dead at Charlton Memorial Hospital at 10:39 P.M. One passenger in the 1983 Ford Mustang suffered minor injury, while two others were unhurt in the crash shortly after 10 p.m. The Mustang crashed through the fence of a...

• Two Women Killed, One Seriously Injured in Wareham Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | November 29, 2007 11:34 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two women were killed and a third was seriously injured in a four-vehicle car accident this morning, on Route 6, in Wareham, according to police.The accident happened just after 9:30 am, Thursday, in front of the Burger King on Cranberry Highway. A Ford Taurus apparently traveling at a high rate of speed, crossed the double yellow lines and struck another vehicle. After the initial crash, the...

• Cape Cod Car Accidents and the "IME"....NOT!

  Bruce Bierhans | April 03, 2009 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Do you know what IME stands for? How about Independant Medical Exam. When it comes to car accidents and insurer requested IME's, falser words were never spoken. If you have had a car accident, and...

• Left Hand Turns

  Bruce Bierhans | June 23, 2008 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  AHHH...Cape Cod in the summer. Beaches, fried seafood, sun and surf ...and NO left hand turns! I was at a cocktail party over the weekend for a local charity in which I'm involved. One of the...

• Cape Cod Teenager Found Guilty of Motor Vehicle Homicide

  Chrissie Cole | September 26, 2007 1:17 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Cape Cod teenager was found guilty of causing the car accident that killed his best friend, in March 2006, and sentenced to 18 months in jail.The teen, 18, of Barnstable, was found guilty of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation following a bench trial. The judge ruled he was the cause of the accident that led to the death of his best friend, 16-year-old Melissa Gifford.He will serve...

• Crash Kills Man; Injures Woman

  Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 2:10 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman suffered serious injuries and a man has died following a car crash on southbound Interstate 495, report State Police. Preliminary investigations show that speed may have been a factor in the crash and that neither occupants of the car were wearing a seat belt.The 2000 Volkswagen was traveling south at 2am when it swerved off the road, crashed with a highway sign and bounced back across...

• Yarmouth Roads Deadliest on Cape Cod

  Christina Cole | January 18, 2007 1:38 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Yarmouth roads were the deadliest on Cape Cod in 2006 with seven fatalities, about one-third of all car accident related deaths on the Cape."It's like trial by fire," said Yarmouth police officer Gordon Gibbons, member of the town's year-old accident reconstruction team. The Yarmouth Police blamed 13 of 24 car accidents in 2006 that resulted in fatalities or serious injury on the use of drugs or...