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Three Unrelated Fatal Accidents
AP- In Okalahoma , Herbert Otis Waldon Jr., 51 died in a car accident. Troopers reported that Walson was driving his pickup truck just before midnight last Friday night. He ran of the side of the road and then tried to correct himself but instead swerved to the left side of the road where he [...]
Continue reading...Solider Killed in Texas Truck Accident
6. November 2008
After Halloween Spc. Joseph D. Binion, 23, was walking home when he was hit and killed by a truck in El Paso, Texas around 2:30 am. Police reported that David Palacios was driving the blue Chevrolet Silverado truck that hit Binion. After he hit the Chicago soldier, he fled from the scene. Special traffic investigators caught [...]
Continue reading...Crash Sends Ten Victims to Hospital
5. November 2008
Police were called to the first accident around 9 pm last week. This accident caused traffic to stop on the highway. Just a half hour later, a semi truck approaching the accident didn’t slow down enough which caused him to crash into multiple vehicles. This collision occurred just two miles south of the first crash. The [...]
Continue reading...Motorcyclist Killed in Three Vehicle Accident
4. November 2008
One motorcycle rider was killed in an accident that involved two other motorcycles and a semi truck. The motorcycle rider, Stephen Barber, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident last Saturday. The accident happened just after noon when Phillip Siragusa, 52, was driving east in his 2008 Chevrolet pickup truck State police trooper reported [...]
Continue reading...Hasbro Nerf Gun Recalled after Injuries
17. October 2008
Hasbro Inc., of Pawtucket, R.I has announced a recall of its “Nerf- N-Strike Recon Blasters” toy gun. Children from the age of 4- to 12 -year-old have been injured by the toy. When a child tries to pull the trigger of the gun, sometimes their skin gets caught in the plunger. There has been 46 reports [...]
Continue reading...Remembering Four Killed in Bicycle Accidents
10. October 2008
Cyclists in the Twin Cities plan to head out on their bicycles this Saturday to remember four bikers that were killed in four different terrible bicycle accidents. The route will start where Virginia Heuer-Bower, 51 was killed. The route will then go through the area that Jim Nisser, 65, was killed while he was biking [...]
Continue reading...Los Angeles Mayor Gets on Metrolink Train
17. September 2008
The train wreck last week included a commuter train that many workers rely on for transportation to and from their work. So, it isn’t surprising that just three days after the train accident that killed 25 and injured 135, commuters were back on board traveling through the San Fernando Valley on Metrolink trains. But it is not [...]
Continue reading...Los Angeles Train Accident - Comprehensive Information
15. September 2008
Los Angeles Metrolink Train Accident in Chatsworth on Friday September 12, 2008. Updated 9/15/08 Officials are still trying to figure out what went wrong and what caused this massive wreck. The engineer did miss the red signal but it is still not clear how that could have happened. He May have been using [...]
Continue reading...Truck Worker Loses Leg When hit by Car
8. September 2008
It was early Thursday morning around 7 am when 17-year-old Jon Tavares hit a worker standing behind his dump truck with his Honda Civic. The worker was loading trash into the truck. The driver of the truck was sitting in the truck at the time of the accident. The worker was transported [...]
Continue reading...911 Operator Fired Over Fatal Mistake
2. September 2008
It’s been a difficult reality to accept for the family who lost Darlene Dukes. Dukes lived north of Atlanta on Wales Street in Johns Creek. It was Saturday afternoon that Dukes called 911 for medical assistance. Alfred Moore, Fulton County’s 911 director, said Dukes called when she was “in respiratory distress.” The 911 operator who received [...]
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7. November 2008
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