Posts tagged killed

• Alcohol Sale to Underage Drunk Driver Nets Convenience Store $716.5M Penalty

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | May 31, 2012 8:06 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A civil trial jury in Hillsboro County, Florida (FL) has ordered the owner of a convenience store that sold alcohol to a teen who later in the day caused a drunk driving accident that killed a...

• Running Off Road Then Overcorrecting a Common Accident Cause for Teen Drivers

  Emily Mapp Brannon | March 15, 2012 8:41 PM | 2 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Separate car accidents in rural western Virginia (VA) in January and February 2012 that claimed the lives of three teenagers are being attributed to young drivers who ran off the road accidently...

• Two NC Pedestrians Die After Being Hit by Vehicles While Wearing Headphones

  Emily Mapp Brannon | October 24, 2011 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two fatal North Carolina accidents in October 2011 involving individuals walking with headphones highligh the dangers of not paying attention to traffic as a pedestrian. In one incident, a...

• Tragic Walmart Parking Lot Accident Brings Focus on Senior Drivers in North Carolina

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | October 09, 2011 6:29 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  One woman was killed and two others suffered serious injuries when a 95-year-old driver lost control of his pickup truck in a Smithfield, North Carolina (NC), Walmart parking lot and ran into the...

• Brothers Killed Walking on Railroad Tracks May Have Smoked Spice Before Being Hit by Train

  Pierce Egerton | October 06, 2011 12:34 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The father of two teenagers says that his sons may have been smoking the synthetic drug “spice” before they were killed by a train in Mebane, N.C. It’s a horrible loss for the...

• North Carolina (NC) Teen Killed in ATV Accident

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | August 03, 2011 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It was the last ATV ride of the day for a 17-year-old from North Carolina, and he didn’t wear his helmet. Sadly, that omission proved fatal for the Ashe County, NC, teen when he lost control...

• Fatal South Carolina Highway Crash Raises Tricky Liability Issues

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 24, 2011 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A deadly highway merging accident in central South Carolina has the potential to bring even greater suffering to a family who lost two children or to a tractor-trailer driver who suffered injuries...

• Arrest made in hit-and-run that killed horse, injured two riders

  Lawrence Egerton | February 02, 2011 9:37 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Timothy George Hardin has been arrested on suspicion of being the driver in the hit-and-run accident that severely injured Carlee Shay Jones and James Cody Burke and killed Jones’s horse near...

• Two injured, horse killed in Cherryville, N.C. hit-and-run

  Lawrence Egerton | February 01, 2011 2:42 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A hit-and-run driver injured James Cody Burke and Carlee Jones and killed a horse in an accident near Cherryville, North Carolina, on Sunday, January 30, 2011. Burke, age 24, of Cherryville, and...

• Driver who struck, killed 11-year-old gets suspended sentence, probation

  Lawrence Egerton | January 17, 2011 7:36 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The driver who struck and killed an 11-year-old Davidson County girl last September pleaded guilty recently to hit and run and received a suspended sentence and 24 months probation. Emily Nicole...