Posts tagged automobile accidents

• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Turns 50 - Watch this Video

  Bret Hanna | August 05, 2011 6:31 PM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Institute describes itself this way on its website: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an...

• 2010 A Better Year On Utah's Highways

  Bret Hanna | January 12, 2011 11:21 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to statistics reported today in the Salt Lake Tribune, deaths on Utah's highways declined in 2010 for the third straight year. The numbers reported by the Utah Department of Transportation...

• Wrong Way, Turn Around

  Bret Hanna | August 23, 2010 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A fiery crash on Interstate 215 in Salt Lake County last week claimed the life of one driver and seriously injured the second. An elderly gentleman drove his Toyota Camry the wrong way on the belt...

• Tragedy Compounded

  Bret Hanna | March 15, 2010 11:45 PM | 3 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One accident last Wednesday led to another, and the loss of life and tragedy that resulted seems hard to comprehend. The weather was terrible last Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 15 near Cedar...

• Drivers Beware: Don't Leave Idling Cars Unattended

  Mark Williams | December 29, 2009 1:25 AM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  How many times have you left your car running while you take care of a small errand: running back into the house, dropping off a video, or just warming your car up on a cold morning? We all have...

• Deadly Accident Appears To Have Been Preventable

  Bret Hanna | December 07, 2009 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  E. Dale LeBaron, 75, a retired Brigham Young University professor, was killed last week after he, his wife and a friend were struck by a car on an Orem street. The 21-year-old driver of the vehicle...

• Driver Dies After Causing Multiple Accidents on Interstate 15

  Bret Hanna | November 14, 2009 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Sheldon Taylor, 54, of Sandy, died yesterday afternoon after triggering a series of 3 accidents that snarled the afternoon commute on southbound Interstate 15. The first accident occurred at about...

• The First 8 Things to do After an Auto Accident

  Bret Hanna | November 08, 2009 6:17 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Auto accidents are a fact of life and knowing what to do when you are involved in one is critical. Of course, doing anything at all assumes that you are physically and mentally able to do so. If you...

• Another Left Turn Accident Death in Utah

  Bret Hanna | October 13, 2009 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  This one occurred Sunday evening in Garfield County, when a 55-year-old woman turned left in her Toyota in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer. The accident occurred at 5:30 p.m., about 7 miles...

• High Speed Four-Car Crash That Injured Four Was Avoidable

  Bret Hanna | August 25, 2009 9:41 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Expedition traveling east at a high rate speed on Bangerter Highway Monday afternoon slammed into the back of GMC Yukon. The impact pushed the Expedition into oncoming traffic where it was...