Posts tagged fatal

• Man Accused of Killing Lansing Area Woman and Son While Driving Drunk Fit to Stand Trial

  Devon Glass | October 23, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Following up on one of our previous stories, Daniel Burwell is fit to stand trial according to competency tests conducted at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, near Ypsilanti. Ingham County Circuit...

• Drunk Driver Faces Felony Charges After Killing 80-year-old retired Postal Worker

  Devon Glass | August 09, 2009 11:54 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  32-year-old Efrain Garcia-Miron faces charges of operating while intoxicated causing death, as a result of driving his vehicle head-on into a Ford Taurus driven by 80-year-old Leonard Dykstra, a...

• Unlicensed Driver Causes Tragic Crash

  David Mittleman | July 31, 2009 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An unlicensed Detroit woman caused a crash early Wednesday morning on the Ohio Turnpike outside of Cleveland. She was driving with three children in her minivan, and it appears that none of them...

• Traffic Deaths at All-Time Low - Michigan Leads Way in Seatbelt Use

  David Mittleman | April 13, 2009 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that traffic-related deaths had reached a record low. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that about...

• NTSB Holds Helicopter EMS Hearings

  David Mittleman | February 03, 2009 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  For most of us, the words emergency medical services conjure images of paramedics, firefighters, and police officers rendering care and transporting patients to the hospital by ambulance. In many...

• Michigan Motorcycle Insurance Questions

  Daniel Buckfire | December 09, 2008 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  For Michigan motorcyclists, being involved in a motorcycle accident is a very serious challenge. The number of motorcycle accidents in Michigan has been rising in recent years, and the laws...

• Midland Motorcyclist Killed in Accident in Elk Rapids Township

  Daniel Buckfire | September 12, 2008 4:20 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Midland motorcyclist was killed in an accident that occurred in Elk Rapids Township earlier this week. Motorcyclist David Torkelson crossed the centerline and collided with a car in a head on...

• Rollover Motor Vehicle Accidents

  Daniel Buckfire | September 12, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Rollover motor vehicle accidents quite often result in life altering injuries, permanent disability or even death. Determining the cause of an SUV rollover and the parties responsible is a difficult...

• Hillsdale Car Accident: 20 Year Old Driver Hits Trailer

  Daniel Buckfire | September 11, 2008 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 20 year old driver was injured this week when his car struck a construction trailer on M-99 south of Industrial Drive in Hillsdale, Michigan. Although police were on the scene almost immediately,...

• Tragic Romeo Car Accident

  Daniel Buckfire | September 11, 2008 2:01 PM | 1 CommentDetroit, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Today I read about a tragic Romeo car accident in which Chelsea Pascoe, a Romeo High School student, was killed. She was driving at the intersection of Campground Road and 31 Mile Road in Washington...