A Waltham, Mass. man is facing 9 felony charges after being involved in a fatal golf cart accident on September 9, 2009. According to prosecutors, Andrew Morrissey was drunk when he drove his golf cart into a minvan on an Albany highway. The cart driven by Morrissey had 3 passengers; Robin Clohecy, Jared Frontiero [...]
Posted March 2, 2010 By wsfb.com STAMFORD, Conn. — A man was killed in a Tuesday morning collision with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Stamford. Police said a Toyota Sienna driven by Xiaoyuan Huang, 28, was either stopped or traveling slowly in the right, northbound lane of Interstate 95 before 5 a.m. Police [...]
Posted December 21, 2009 By Mike McIntire, the New York Times By the time Bryan Lee headed to work along Highway 51 in Texas on Sept. 15, 2005, the road-building industry and its government overseers were painfully aware of a deadly, though easily corrected, construction hazard: pavement-edge drop-offs. Accidents involving dangerous drop-offs kill [...]
Posted November 30, 2009 By: WNCT.com A tractor-trailer carrying 45-thousand pounds of hydrochloric acid overturned on a Kansas City interstate Monday morning (11/30), snarling traffic and prompting the city to open its Emergency Operations Center. Clouds of hazardous gas escaped from the trailer and an unknown amount of acid spilled from the tank. [...]
By Mari A. Schaefer Inquirer Staff Writer The driver of the car who was huffing before she struck two pedestrians, killing one outside Delaware County Memorial Hospital pleaded guilty today to homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, aggravated assault and a drug charge. Rachael Jankins, 20, of Havertown was sentenced to [...]
Posted November 13, 2009 By Jessie-Lynne Kerr, jacksonville.com A Circuit Court jury in Flagler County Thursday returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2006 fatal collision between a fully loaded tractor-trailer and a Honda minivan. Ingrid Falkenstein, 67, who had just retired to Palm Coast with her [...]
Posted October 24, 2009 By ANDREW STRICKLER, newsday.com A dozen New York City firefighters were hurt – including a seriously injured driver who was trapped in an overturned vehicle – when two trucks rushing to a gas leak collided in a Brooklyn intersection Saturday morning, officials said. Witnesses described a deafening collision between [...]
Posted October 25, 2009\ By Gary Taylor, Orlando Sentinel One teenager was killed and six others injured early Saturday in a single-vehicle accident on E. Michigan Street at Center Avenue in Orlando. Brandon Wesley Wise, 17, of Orlando, is the 22nd person to die in a traffic crash in Orlando this year, Orlando [...]
Reported by: Ozarksfirst.com Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 @08:32pm (Miami, OK) — More legal trouble for a truck driver from Willard. Donald Creed pleaded not guilty in Oklahoma a few weeks ago to negligent homicide. He’s charged with ten misdemeanor counts for that crash on I-44 that killed ten people. It was back [...]
Published October 5, 2009 By KEN THOMAS (AP) WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles in the United States on Monday to address problems with floor mats that could cause the gas pedal to stick and cause a crash. The automaker formally informed the federal government of the recall in [...]
