Automobile Accidents

• Bicyclist Hurt in Montgomery Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | January 10, 2008 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A 52-year-old man was severly injured in a bicycle accident in Montgomery on Tuesday. He was struck by a car on U.S. Highway 31. The victim is from Letohatchee. He was airlifted from the scene of the accident to Baptist South Hospital. Several agencies responded to the scene including the Pintlala Fire Department, State Troopers and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. It is unknown...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...