Posts tagged pedestrian

• Chapel Hill, NC Becomes First U.S. City to Ban All Cell Phone Use by Drivers

  Jim Lewis | April 01, 2012 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It wasn't easy, and residents' reactions are mixed , at best. But starting June 1, 2012, anyone driving within the city limits of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (NC), risks a $25 fine if...

• Charlotte, NC Area Pedestrian Accidents Highlight Crosswalk Safety Issues

  Randy Appleton | March 28, 2012 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three North Carolina teens have been hit while crossing streets near their Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in a two-week period. On March 13, 2012, a Garinger High School teen was struck while...

• North Carolina Girl in Critical Condition After Being Struck by Jeep

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | February 21, 2012 8:54 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It’s the time of year in North Carolina (NC) when inclement weather rears its ugly head and, as a car accident attorney, I like to remind motorists traveling in bad weather that they have a...

• Conspiracy Alert: First Lady’s “Get Moving” scheme linked to child pedestrian slaughter

  Pierce Egerton | January 30, 2012 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Few people know this, but Barack Obama was spotted on the grassy knoll in Dallas in 1963. Michelle Obama has interviewed aliens in captivity at Area 51 in Nevada. And they both know where...

• 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...

• Parents: ADHD = Higher Risk of Pedestrian Injury

  Pierce Egerton | August 13, 2011 6:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The following news item from the American Academy of Pediatrics definitely falls into the not exactly a revelation category. But as a parent, it serves as an important reminder Children...

• Distracted driving accident leaves grandfather, mother dead; 1-year-old critical

  Lawrence Egerton | February 18, 2011 9:14 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Police say that an 18-year-old driver was speeding when she struck and killed two people and injured a child in an accident on Wednesday morning, February 9, 2011 in southwest Charlotte, North...

• Greensboro pedestrian hospitalized after hit and run

  Lawrence Egerton | February 14, 2011 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Richard Lynn was hospitalized after a hit-and-run accident Friday night, February 11, 2011. Lynn, 50, was walking in front of 2305 Madre Place in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was struck by a car...

• North Carolina’s Holiday Snowstorm Leave Several Dead in Weather-Related Wrecks

  Rick Shapiro | January 04, 2011 8:16 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to statistics gathered by the Highway Patrol, four people were killed in car crashes over the recent holiday snowstorm in North Carolina. Initial reports confirm that a Greenville, North...

• Hit-and-Run Pickup Accident Kills Sunbury Man

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | December 23, 2010 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 27-year-old Sunbury, North Carolina (NC), man died earlier this week after the driver of a pickup truck struck him and drove off. The fatal hit-and-run accident occurred early in the evening of...