Automobile Accidents

• Black Ice is the Cause for Fatal Accident

  Rick Patterson | December 13, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  During this time of year drivers need to be aware of slick roads and black ice. Heather Richie, 26, and her boyfriend Joseph Lee Bekker, were killed in a car accident due to black ice. Their wrecked Ford Explorer was found 24 hours after the accident under an overpass. Police say the two were headed home when their SUV hit black ice, slid across the top of a guardrail and fell off the overpass,...

• Kentucky Accidents Claim Thirteen Lives

  Rick Patterson | December 07, 2007 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  One would hope at this stage of the game we are all aware of the absolute importance of wearing a seat belt while traveling in a motor vehicle. The difference it makes in an accident cannot be overstated. According to the Kentucky State Police, thirteen people died in thirteen accidents on roadways in thirteen Kentucky counties last week. Out of the thirteen victims, ten were in cars and four of...

• How to Avoid Car Crashes

  Rick Patterson | November 12, 2007 7:12 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Dean Voelker, has an idea. He has worked of that idea for the past 17 years. He feels he has perfected the automobile headlight that will significantly reduce automobile crashes. He has invented and patented a new brake light system that lights up proportionately to how much force the driver is exerting on the brake pedal. "When you step lightly, it lights up only the middle of the light. The...

• Teen Driver Safety Week

  Rick Patterson | October 06, 2007 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Most people are concerned about the safety of teen drivers. Beginning on October 15 it is National Teen Driver Safety Week, which is partially backed by State Farm Insurance Company. The idea is to bring about awareness and to help prevent teen deaths while driving. Parents would be well advised to take part and talk to teens in their household. Remind teens of the repercussions of...

• Automobile Accidents, Insurance & The Law

  Rick Patterson | October 03, 2007 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Anyone considering committing auto insurance fraud should really think twice. Clearly, it is wrong on many levels, and the penalties are steeper than many realize. Take, for example, the indictment of Kim Falle, and it was not the only indictment. That particular indictment was announced on Monday in New Hampshire for Falle's part in automobile insurance fraud.Kim Falle, age 42, was indicted on...

• Night Driving & Fatal Car Accidents

  Rick Patterson | September 29, 2007 7:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  More than 4 in 10 fatal car accidents occur at night. When you consider the fact that there is 60 percent less traffic at night than during the daytime, that number becomes even more alarming. It is believed that the reason for this is reduced visual acuity due to the illumination from headlights. Research is currently being conducted in Europe. Researchers are working on a project known as...

• Auto Crash Involving School Bus

  Rick Patterson | September 23, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Traffic accidents are never good, but when a school bus is involved it can be particularly awful. So many young children can be exposed to harm. In Greenburgh, New York, one person had to be hospitalized after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a school bus on Route 100C. Fortuntily, there was only a driver and one student on board the bus at the time of the incident, a...

• Teenage Girl Injured in Car-pedestrian Accident

  Rick Patterson | August 17, 2007 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  In Kansas, on Wednesday, a teenage girl was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street during rush hour. "Police Sgt. Steve Thompson said the victim and another female were running south across S.W. 21st Street toward Fairlawn Plaza Shopping Center."In this particular car-pedestrian accident, one of the two girls waited in the center turn lane for traffic to pass. However, the other girl -the...

• Drunk Driver Costs Officer his Leg

  Rick Patterson | August 10, 2007 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Thirty-six-year-old Roberto Beltran Cedeno pulled out of a tavern on July 29 in Kenmore, Seattle. According to officers, he was intoxicated. Tragically, his vehicle collided with Officer Donn Potteiger , a 23-year veteran of the department. As a result of the collision, Officer Potteiger lost his leg. When Mr. Cedeno appeared in court he pleaded not guilty to vehicular assault. While the...

• Increase in Seattle Trucking Accidents

  Rick Patterson | July 14, 2007 5:24 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A suspicious number of commercial trucks in the Seattle area have had there wheels come loose causing traffic accidents. The numbers are high: At least six incidents have occurred in and around Seattle since May of this year. In one incident, "a Safeway Inc. driver narrowly escaped injury when his water truck hit an errant semi-truck wheel. The wreck caused a 10-mile backup on Interstate 405. On...