Automobile Accidents

• Fatal two-car accident

  Staff Writer | May 23, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Cullman Times reported a tragic two-car accident that resulted in the death of an 85-year-old man Sunday on Alabama Highway 157.The victim was a passenger in a 1996 Plymouth, and was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The driver of the vehicle was injured, and both were wearing seatbelts, according the the Alabama State Trooper reports. The cause of the accident is still under...

• One-car crash kills Odenville man

  Staff Writer | May 14, 2007 8:27 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Tragedy struck in St. Clair County last night when a 20-year-old man crashed a 2006 Ford F-350 truck on U.S. 411. The single-car accident occurred at around 2 a.m.A report from The Birmingham News said a passenger in the vehicle was injured and taken to UAB Hospital. The cause of the accident was not reported and is still under investigation.If you or someone you know has been killed or injured...

• Tragic accident kills woman, injures children

  Staff Writer | April 29, 2007 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A fatal one-car accident Friday killed the driver nad injured three minor children wh owere passengers on Interstate 20-59 at mile marker 64.The cause of the motor vehicle accident was not reported, but Alabama State Troopers said that the driver was ejected from the car. The three children who were injured were taken directly to DCH Regional Medical Center.If you or someone you know has been...

• 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...