Posts tagged vehicle

• NHTSA Announces Campaign to Prevent Heatstroke Death in Cars

  Jim Lewis | April 15, 2012 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Where's baby? Look before you lock, a new public safety awareness campaign asks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that due to the unseasonably warm temperatures...

• Yield for Emergency Vehicles: The Law Requires It!

  Kevin Duffan | October 03, 2011 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When an emergency vehicle is traveling on the roadway, the other vehicles on the road are legally obligated to stop or yield. A few recent incidents where cars have struck emergency vehicles,...

• NC's Rural Roads Are 11th Deadliest

  Pierce Egerton | September 17, 2011 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Photo: Ian Hampton / flickr The death rate on our country's roads has declined in recent years. And yet, according to a report from the research group TRIP, North Carolina has the 11th highest...

• 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...

• UPDATE: Underage Drunk Driver Charged with Second-Degree Murder, Several Felonies

  Lawrence Egerton | April 05, 2011 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Ian Michael Smith—a 20-year-old man from Archdale, NC—was originally charged with driving while impaired (DWI) and driving after consuming alcohol while under the age of 21 after a...

• 12-year-old dies in crash; driver charged with felonies, DWI

  Lawrence Egerton | February 28, 2011 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A single-car accident caused the death of 12-year-old Roland Benjamin Sierra on Saturday, February 19, 2011, in Asheboro, North Carolina. The driver of the car, Reyna Patricia Valencia, age 35, was...

• 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...

• Fatigue Contributes to Multivehicle Collision, Ten Deaths

  Pierce Egerton | October 05, 2010 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  On September 28, 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, D.C. announced its determination that a fatal multicar crash that occurred on June 26, 2009 in Miami, Oklahoma...

• Infant's rescue from hot car shows common hazard

  Lawrence Egerton | July 30, 2010 12:44 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I blogged recently about a dog that was left in a car in 90-degree weather but saved himself by honking the horn for more than an hour. Smart dog, happy ending. But this hazard unfortunately goes...

• Vibrating Car Seat Could Help Cut Down on Car Accidents

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 08, 2010 4:58 PM | 1 CommentGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A mechanical engineer at Yale University invented a vibrating seat aimed to help reduce the number of car wrecks that occur every day in the U.S. The device would start vibrating if a vehicle enters...