Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• One-car accident kills Sylacauga man

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2007 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Shelby County Reporter details a deadly motor vehicle accident in which a 25-year-old man ran off the road in his SUV and hit and embankment. The fatal accident occurred on Alabama 25 at about 7:45 a.m. on Thursday near Wilsonville. The victim was not wearing a seatbelt, according to an Alabama State Trooper report, and the crash is still being investigated.

• Weekend accidents claim eight lives

  Staff Writer | February 14, 2007 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An Associated Press report from Monday says that at least eight traffic-related deaths occurred over the weekend in motor vehicle accidents on Alabama's rural roads.The deaths include an Etowah County couple killed in a one-car crash in Bessemer, a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle in Millbrook, and a man who died in a one-car accident in Macon County. Additional fatal accidents...

• Traffic fatality in Lawrence County

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Times Daily reported a motor vehicle accident that resulted in the death of a Courtland man last Thursday. The one-car crash occurred on Lawrence 150 at about 11:30 p.m. when the car left the road and hit a tree. Emergency personnel say that the 1996 Chevrolet S10 pickup truck hit the tree almost head-on, immediately killing the driver. The passenger, who was the driver's twin brother, was...

• School bus accident to be reconstructed

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2007 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An article from The Huntsville Times reported that an accident reconstruction team will recreate the tragic scene of the recent Huntsville school bus accident that killed four Lee High School students and injured dozens of others.The private accident reconstruction team will close part of I-565 to work on creating computer simulations of the accident. The team was hired by a lawyer representing...

• Liability for road builders up for debate

  Staff Writer | December 22, 2006 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Montgomery Advertiser published a couple of interesting editorials recently discussing the push among road builders to encourage the state Legislature to pass new laws giving them liability relief when motor vehicle accidents occur on roads they have built. On one hand, the road contractors want to be protected from frivolous lawsuits. They believe that if the Department of Transportation...

• 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...

• 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 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...

• 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....