Automobile Accidents

• Wal-Mart loses $4 million verdict over accident

  Staff Writer | April 23, 2007 10:20 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A Montgomery, Alabama jury awarded a paralyzed woman $4 million in a verdict Friday, said a report from the Associated Press.The woman, Carolyn Thorne, was paralyzed in a rollover crash that resulted when her SUV's tires separated after visiting a Wal-Mart service center. Her car's tires were recalled in 2002 by Continential Tire Company, and she took her SUV in to Wal-Mart to have the tires...

• Motor vehicle accidents injure six people

  Staff Writer | April 22, 2007 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Alabama Department of Public Safety reported a string of accidents on Interstate 85 yesterday that caused six injuries, none of them serious.The Montgomery Advertiser reports that the first accident occurred when a tractor-trailer truck lost control and overturned in the northbound lane near the Shorter exit in Macon County. Later a car in the southbound lane ran into a guard rail as it...

• Motor vehicle accident injures woman

  Staff Writer | April 17, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An accident Wednesday involving two vehicles injured a woman, who was treated and released from Vaughan Regional Medial Center, says a reprot from The Selma Times-Journal.The accident happened at U.S. Highway 80 E. and Old Montgomery Highway, damaging both vehicles: a 2004 Nissa Sentra and a 1986 Toyota Pickup truck. An Alabama state trooper reports the details of the accident:"Mrs. Lawson was...

• Dangerous curve blamed for Hwy. 69 accidents

  Staff Writer | April 08, 2007 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Motor vehicle accidents, many of them deadly, have been all too common on a stretch of Highway 69 with a dangerous curve, a story from TuscaloosaNews.com reports.One woman in the story recounts a deadly accident in October, during which her husband and father inflicted serious injuries from which they are still recovering.The section of Highway 69, containing a memorial marker honoring life...

• Another tragic teen accident claims lives

  Staff Writer | March 31, 2007 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Family and friends are mourning after the deaths of three teenagers in a head-on collision last night in Chilton County, Alabama. The tragic motor vehicle accident occurred on County Road 49 near the County Road 376 intersection at about 8 p.m. A white Oldsmobile car and blue Ford Explorer SUV crashed head-on, killing three teens and injuring at least 4 others, according to a report from the...

• Head-on crash kills one and injures many

  Staff Writer | March 31, 2007 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Early this morning in Montgomery, Alabama, a Greyhound bus carrying 49 passengers and 2 drivers crashed into a car driving in the wrong direction on a divided highway. The Associate Press reports that the woman driving the car died in the motor vehicle crash, and at least 20 passengers on the bus were injured. There was panic among those on the bus as they frantically tried to exit the smoking...

• Editorial argues for bus seat belts

  Staff Writer | March 12, 2007 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An interesting editorial from McClatchy Newspapers in Indiana argues for the addition of seat belts on school buses, pointing to the recent Bluffton University baseball team bus crash tragedy in Atlanta. The article's author quotes Dr. Jeffrey Salmone from Grady Memorial Hospital, where the victims of the bus accident were treated. "These kids were like flying missiles," Salomone said. He said...

• Bluffton University bus crash kills six in Atlanta

  Staff Writer | March 05, 2007 9:42 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Another tragic bus accident involving the bus going over the side of an overpass occurred on Friday in Atlanta at the I-75 ramp at Northside Drive.The accident reportedly resulted from the driver's mistaking an exit ramp for a regular lane. As a result, the bus crashed into a barrier and went off the side of an overpass onto a pickup truck. The bus was full of Bluffton University student...

• Governor's group wants $1.4 million bus seat belt study

  Staff Writer | March 01, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The seven-person group appointed by Alabama Gov. Riley to evaluate school bus safety made a recommendation to the Governor yesterday, says a report from the Montgomery Advertiser. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070301/NEWS02/703010358/1009The group wants the state to fund a $1.4 million pilot study of seat belts on school buses over a three-year period to...

• Alabama Highway 40 accident causes injuries

  Staff Writer | February 28, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A one-car accident on Highway 40 Sunday left both the driver and passenger injured, according to a report from The Daily Sentinel.The Alabama State Trooper investigating the accident said that the passenger, who was a child, was airlifted to Huntsville Hospital with critical injuries. The hospital reports that the boy is still being treated in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The accident...