It was around 4:30 pm last Friday night when a bicycle and truck were both heading south on an Indiana state road. The truck ran off the road causing it to hit the read end of the bicycle. County Deputy Coroner said that the bicycle rider was killed instantly. The name of the rider was not [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 25, 2008
Earlier this month Roger T. Linton, 41, was involved in car accident that killed James J. Carey, 27. Linton was charged with drunken driving and tuned himself in this past Wednesday. When taken into custody, he was charged with criminal operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident. His bail was set to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 11, 2008
With a blood alcohol content level of .10, William Altier, 24, was driving through the city at night on August 13th. He was driving his Porsche 911 and “cutting people off with no safe distance,” one witness reported. It was a rainy night and he was changing lanes while speeding. Altier then crashed his Porsche [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 10, 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...Monday, September 8, 2008
Thursday morning in North Austin on Research Blvd., a motorcycle was hit by a blue GMC truck. The truck was left at the scene, but its driver had apparently fled the area. When the Austin Police Department arrived on the scene, they found the body of the motorcycle rider on the roadway which was elevated [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
On the highways even if vehicles are at slow speeds a serious accident can occur. In Michigan there was a slow moving truck that caused a crash that required rescue workers to use the jaws of life. A 22-year-old woman was driving a small pickup truck on a major highway in Kent County Friday morning [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
Lately there have been a slew of crane-related deaths in New York, Miami, and Las Vegas. Because of this history there has been a crack down on safety precautions for sites that use this massive machinery. In Houston, Texas Friday there was a serious crane accident leaving six injured and four killed. Two [...]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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