NEWARK –The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has designated Sept. 19-25 as “Fall Prevention Awareness Week,” and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBIMC) is hoping to increase awareness about the dangers of falls for the elderly and ways to prevent accidents. In New Jersey, 70 percent of adults age 65 and over ... Read more

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published: September 12, 2011 A new study of car crashes suggests that children may be safer when their grandparents are driving than when their parents are at the wheel. Researchers reviewed data on 11,859 children involved in car accidents over a five-year period, from 2003 through 2007. They also interviewed the parents ... Read more

By Jo-Anne MacKenziejmackenzie@eagletribune.com SALEM — Two Massachusetts residents were killed in a single-vehicle accident just before midnight last night. Michael Joyce, 29, of Stoneham and Karina O’Donnell, 23, of Merrimac were killed after the pickup truck they were in hit a large tree off Interstate 93 North near the Salem rest area, according to New ... Read more

4:25 PM, Sep. 15, 2011 | Written by Staff Report SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A 25-year-old Jamesburg woman was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike, State Police said. Nicole Gandy, 25, of Jamesburg was traveling northbound in the inner lane of the highway near mile marker 74.5 in ... Read more

By Matt Rocheleau Globe Correspondent / September 12, 2011 Police said they believe the death of a woman who fell nearly five stories through a skylight on the roof of a South Boston office building Saturday night was accidental, and they found no indication alcohol or drugs were involved. fOfficials, citing an ongoing investigation, did ... Read more