Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Night Driving & Fatal Car Accidents

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

  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 Accidents - Number One Killer of Teens(2)

  Rick Patterson | February 13, 2007 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It would probably be safe to say that one of the most exciting times of a teenager's young life it the day they get their license to drive. A close second would probably be the day they get access to a vehicle. At the same time, this may prove to be a very worrysome time for the parents of that teen. Parents generally realize just how distracted an inexperienced teen can be. While that type of...

• Drunk Driver Costs Officer his Leg

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

  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...

• Automobile Accidents on the Rise

  Rick Patterson | January 27, 2008 6:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Automobile accidents have greatly increased on Los Angeles freeways and streets according to officials. In fact, according to Francisco Villalobos, an officer who works out of the California Highway Patrol's Transportation Management Center, there were twice as many automobile collisions reported this week as there were last week. "We do see a lot of solo spinouts, people going over the side of...

• Auto Crash Involving School Bus

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Preventing Auto Crashes Caused by Superspeeders

  Rick Patterson | February 09, 2007 3:58 PM | 1 CommentLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  What do you think of this idea? Drivers who are pulled over for going 75 mph or more on two-lane roads or more than 85 mph on any state road would be forced to pay an additional $200 in fines. It appears that is what Govenor Sonny Perdue is proposing under legislation being filed Thursday. Not a bad idea. Perdue announced the filing of his "super speeder" legislation at an event promoting...

• Hollister Man Dies in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 26-year-old Hollister man was killed shortly after noon Saturday in a head-on collision on Soquel San Jose Road.According to reports, the accident occurred when a driver heading south in a 2004 Dodge Ram lost control of his truck in the rain, slid over the double yellow line and crashed into a 1991 Buick Century. The Hollister man died instantly, California Highway Patrol reported.Both...

• Kentucky Accidents Claim Thirteen Lives

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

  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...

• Automobile Crashes into Defenseless Woman

  Rick Patterson | May 04, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An unsuspecting 41-year-old woman, was killed when a Toyota Tundra pickup drove onto the grass shoulder of the road where she just happened to be at that moment. Susan M. Evans died at the scene. She really didn't have a chance, or any way of avoiding this automobile accident. This is a horrible example of being in the wrong place at precisely the wrong time.One witness estimated that the Truck...