Automobile Accidents

• Athens Car Accident Kills Person

  Shannon Weidemann | December 26, 2007 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A car accident in Athens, Alabama killed one person and injured two others on Christmas Day. The two-car crash happened on U.S. 72 and one of the cars caught on fire. The victim's body could not be recognized. Limestone County Coroner Mike West said Tuesday that traffic-homicide investigators did find identification in the deceased driver's 1991 Buick, but authorities would not release a...

• Man Injured in Montgomery Car Crash

  Shannon Weidemann | November 23, 2007 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An unidentified man was hurt in a car accident on a Montgomery highway earlier today. He was driving a car on Interstate 370 in Montgomery County. He drove off the road and hit a tractor that was parked in the grass. The car struck a grass-cutting tractor, which was unoccupied, and caught fire, according to John McDonough, a spokesman for Maryland State Police. Grass and brush also caught...

• Focus on teen driver safety

  Kimberly French | October 15, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The statistics for teen drivers are staggering: motor vehicle crashes comprise 36 percent of all deaths for teens, amounting to more than 6,000 dead teens each year on our nation's roads. Congress has addressed this serious issue with National Teen Driver Safety Week, meant to bring to the forefront the dangers of teen driving and curb the problem. With so many distractions for teens, including...

• Girl Dies in Mine Shaft ATV Accident

  Courtney Mills | September 04, 2007 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A 13-year-old Rikki Howard and her 10-year-old half-sister Casie Hicks were riding on the rolling hills of Arizona in a three-wheeled ATV and were seriously injured Saturday in an ATV accident, when their vehicle suddenly tore down a 125-foot mine shaft. The Arizona hilly countryside apparently obscured the opening to the mineshaft, and the girls' vehicle fell right into it.According to media...

• Car accident claims life of man without seatbelt

  Staff Writer | September 03, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A deadly, two-car accident in Mississippi yesterday claimed the life of an Alabama man who was not wearing his seatbelt. The Mississippi Press reports on the motor vehicle accident, which occurred on the U.S. 90 bridge in Pascagoula, and involved a Toyota Camry and a Toyota Tacoma. The report says the man driving the Tacoma hit the Camry from behind, causing the fatal accident. The Tacoma...

• Four-car accident on I-10

  Staff Writer | August 08, 2007 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  WKRG News 5 out of Mobile and Pensacola reported a four-car motor vehicle accident on Interstate 10 near the Theodore-Dawes exit on the night of August 6. The pile-up reportedly injured six people, three of whom were airlifted to a nearby Mobile County hospital in critical condition. The accident caused three of the four cars to block the westbound lanes of I-10, closing down part of the...

• Traffic accident deaths increase in Alabama

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2007 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  WSFA 12 out of Montgomery recently reported the sad statistics about Alabama's increase in traffic accidents during 2006.While nationwide deaths from motor vehicle accidents are down, the numbers in Alabama are on the rise. Last year over 1,200 people were killed on Alabama's roads, bringing the number up about 5% from the previous year. Alabama State Troopers are trying to change that by...

• Miraculous recovery from Opp car accident

  Staff Writer | June 15, 2007 12:43 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Associated Press reports that one of the high school graduates seriously injured in the deadly weekend motor vehicle accident near Opp, Alabama, experienced a miracle recovery.The story says that the 19-year-old was critically injured and not responding to stimuli, so the family and doctors decided to remove his respirator and prepare to harvest his organs. Suddenly, the teen began moving...

• Man injured in two-car accident

  Staff Writer | June 07, 2007 1:23 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An article from a St. Clair County publication covers a two-car crash that caused serious injuries to a man whose Pontiac Grand Am rolled several times on Logan Martin Dam Road Wednesday.One man recounts the accident:The car in front of me slowed down to make a left turn onto Lakeside Lane," said Chris Rodgers, a 33-year-old Notasulga resident who witnessed the wreck. "I put on my blinker so the...

• I-85 pileup causes traffic jam

  Staff Writer | May 30, 2007 8:49 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A multiple vehicle accident on I-85 yesterday morning caused a two-hour back-up as emergency personnel worked to clear the roadway.Two collisions near exit 57 in Auburn were reported, possibly caused by a the driver of a pickup truck pulling a utility trailer who fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a wall. The vehicle then overturned and caused a chain reaction as drivers braked and...