Posts tagged bus

• North Carolina Nursing Home Neglect Fines Not Nearly High Enough

  Mark Favaloro | May 21, 2012 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  A $510 fine levied against a Torrington, Connecticut (CT), nursing home for failing to properly supervise a meal during which a disabled patient choked to death on a peanut butter and jelly...

• Man Awarded $200 Million in the Nursing Home Death of His Mother

  Mark Favaloro | March 13, 2012 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  In the fall of 2004, a 92-year-old nursing home resident pushed herself in her wheelchair through a door leading to a stairwell. She fell in the wheelchair down the flight of stairs and laid...

• DWI/DUI Accident Proves Necessity of North Carolina’s ‘Booze It & Lose It’ Campaign

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | December 06, 2011 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The news could be funny if it weren't so serious. Shortly before 3 am on December 4, 2011, a drunk 21-year-old North Carolina (NC) man slammed his Chevy Camaro into a police bus being use as...

• Discount Bus Services Have Questionable Safety Records

  Jim Lewis | December 04, 2011 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Holiday season means travel season. During this time of year, whether it’s to save a few bucks, to travel “green” or simply to not have the responsibility of driving, many...

• 9 Safety Tips for Bus and Truck Drivers

  Michael Lewis | November 18, 2011 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsWinston-Salem, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Although commercial vehicle drivers are trained professionally, they too can make mistakes or get in the habit of driving carelessly. Just as passengers need to practice appropriate safety...

• Chain-reaction collision with bus carrying A&T students killed three family members

  Pierce Egerton | November 17, 2011 10:00 AM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The recent chain-reaction crash involving a bus carrying N.C. A&T students took the lives of three family members, police have disclosed. The wreck took place on Friday, Nov. 11, on Interstate...

• Crash of North Carolina (NC) Charter Bus Raises New Safety Fears

  Emily Mapp Brannon | November 15, 2011 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The crashes of two charter buses within a week have put the spotlight on the safety record of buses for hire. The most serious of the incidents was in Dinwiddie County, Virginia (VA). Three...

• Do You Know Your School Bus Safety?

  Michael Lewis | November 15, 2011 11:23 AM | 1 CommentWinston-Salem, NC Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  On Monday, a Davidson County school bus was involved in an accident with another vehicle. Over a dozen students were involved in the crash that happened on Boone Cave Road near Highway 150 in...

• Back-to-school time is time to guard against abduction

  Pierce Egerton | August 24, 2011 6:30 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It was an outrageous case of child abduction. A little girl was taken from her elementary school in Mississippi – multiple times – apparently with the unwitting cooperation of the...

• N.C. State Wolfpack star Lorenzo Charles dies in bus crash

  Pierce Egerton | June 28, 2011 8:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It always strikes a chord in our emotions when sports stars die, especially when they die before their time. Lorenzo Charles was 47. He was, of course, the player on the famed Cardiac Pack team who...