Automobile Accidents

• Highway 69 accidents bring deaths and injuries

  Staff Writer | December 08, 2006 8:12 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A terrible accident occurred on Alabama Highway 69 near the intersection of McFarland Boulevard on Friday morning. Two people in a Ford Escort died at the scene of the accident after colliding head-on with a Chrysler PT Cruiser. The cause of the accident remains unknown and is still under investigation.At about the same time, an unrelated accident near the intersection of Frank Lary and Mit Lary...

• Katie Couric sounds off on school bus safety

  Staff Writer | December 04, 2006 9:22 PM | 1 CommentMontgomery, AL

  A December 4, 2006, post from "Katie Couric's Notebook" on CBSNews.com, Couric shares her view on the recent seat belts on school buses debate prompted by the tragic Alabama school bus accident that killed four students. Couric says that about 17 thousand kids go to the emergency room each year as a result of school bus accidents, most of which occur while the students are getting on or off the...

• Alabama accidents plague holiday weekend

  Staff Writer | November 28, 2006 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Another fatal accident claimed the life of a young mother and spared her one-year-old son Saturday night, a report from the Southeast Sun said. About six miles south of Enterprise on County Road 636, a 25-year-old mother hit a culvert, overturning her 1998 Nissan.Another accident last weekend involved a 1990 Ford truck and a 2007 Honda three miles west of Enterprise on Alabama 134. According to...

• Fatal school bus accident prompts seat belt debate

  Staff Writer | November 27, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A tragic school bus accident in Hutsville, Alabama this week that killed four students and injured more than 30 others has raised a serious debate about requiring seat belts on school buses. Many believe that the children who lost their lives might be alive today had they been wearing seat belts. With so many school bus accidents occuring throughout the United States, many citizens and lawmakers...

• Accident during police pursuit kills suspect

  Staff Writer | November 21, 2006 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Last Sunday night a Bon Secour man died in a vehicle crash as police pursued him after a domestic disturbance report. He was reportedly driving at an excessive speed when his vehicle went off the road and crashed into some trees. He was instantly killed in the crash.The motor vehicle accident occurred at around 6:30 p.m. on Fort Morgan Road near the intersection of Henrietta Fulford Place, two...

• Accident fatality is 53rd in NW Alabama this year

  Staff Writer | November 20, 2006 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Times Daily reports a one-car accident early Saturday morning at a curve on Lauderdale 7, two miles north of Florence, Alabama. The driver of the vehicle, Darian Burns of Florence, died from head trauma injuries sustained during the accident. This tragic motor vehicle accident is reported to be the 53rd fatality this year on Northwest Alabama's roadways, and the first for the month of...

• Car accident claims life of UA student

  Staff Writer | November 14, 2006 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Early Sunday morning in Atlanta a car with two University of Alabama students went off the road and rolled over, according to a report on DatelineAlabama.com. Tragically, the motor vehicle accident killed 21-year-old Brandy Nicole Murphy and injured senior basketball player Jermareo Davidson. Davidson was not seriously injured in the accident, and returned to Tuscaloosa Sunday night. Murphy's...

• Residents for speed reductions on dangerous highway

  Staff Writer | November 09, 2006 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Citizens who live and work along an Alabama Highway known as Ga. Highway 151 are asking their local government to reduce the speed limits. After seven motor vehicle accident fatalities in the area in just 10 years, these concerned residents and business owners seem to have a point. A head-on collision on Oct. 3 that killed one and injured another has spurred this push for reduced speed limits....

• Heroes emerges from two-vehicle accident

  Staff Writer | November 02, 2006 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A deadly car accident on Alabama Highway 69 near Northport killed a Mississippi man on Monday, according to a Tuscaloosanews.com report. The two-vehicle accident might have claimed two more lives had it not been for the heroic actions of a passerby. Paul Free noticed a Dodge pickup in flames as he drove by, and saw that another vehicle was on its side right beside it. Fearing that the second...

• Deadly accidents plague Alabama 20

  Staff Writer | October 31, 2006 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A stretch of highway on Alabama 20 has had more than its fair share of motor vehicle accidents, many of them with fatalities. The latest accident occured on Wednesday, October 25, when an Iraq war veteran from Decatur's car ran off the road an struck a utility pole. The cause of the accident is unkown. Both the Decatur man and a Trinity woman who was the passenger died in the crash. According...