Automobile Accidents

• Sending a Text Message While Driving Will Soon Be Illegal in Washington State

  Dan Deuterman | October 31, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Need to text? Your cell phone could be taken awayTexting while driving can lead to deadly consequences, which is why states are taking a look at toughening laws to deter drivers from using their handheld electronics behind the wheel. Washington state has received a lot of attention lately after passing a ban on texting while driving that takes effect this January. Violaters will be charged $100...

• Allstate settles class-action suit in Washington state

  Dan Deuterman | October 30, 2007 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Many injured drivers in Washington state were getting shortchanged by their insurance company, resulting in paying medical expenses out of their own pockets when they should have had coverage, according to a class-action suit that Allstate is settling out of court. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports the tentative settlement of the class-action suit will affect Allstate car insurance policy...

• City bans texting while driving

  Dan Deuterman | October 08, 2007 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Text messaging while driving can have deadly consequences, as we've written about here before.Prompted by a wreck that killed two women after a teenage driver crossed the center line while texting, city leaders in Phoenix are banning drivers from sending or reading text messages. Phoenix is one of the first cities in the nation to ban texting while driving and they're considering banning all...

• Mom charged with child abuse in drunk driving driving accident

  Dan Deuterman | September 05, 2007 12:05 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Not only was she allegedly driving drunk, but police said a Mebane woman who flipped a car with four children inside was driving on a revoked license. All five people in the car were hospitalized. Sherrill Shauntel Garner, 28, was driving east on Interstates 40/85, east of University Drive in Burlington when she lost control of her 1986 BMW. None of the passengers were wearing seatbelts or...

• Fatal bus stop wreck in Raleigh

  Dan Deuterman | September 04, 2007 12:02 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  A fatal wreck in Raleigh has a neighborhood up in arms and complaining not enough is being done to stop speeding in the area. Jason Daniel Oliver, 28, is accused of hitting two men standing at a bus stop after he lost control of his car while traveling 66 mph in a 35 mph zone on Buck Jones Road near Bashford Road in Raleigh. Police said he was driving drunk and will be charged with...

• Woman charged in deadly wreck in Elon

  Dan Deuterman | August 05, 2007 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  A woman who admitted she was responsible for a hit-and-run wreck that killed four people last month in Elon, N.C., has been been arrested and charged in the four deaths.I blogged about this horrible accident when it happened. The four victims were trying to load a broken-down car onto a trailer when they were hit and killed.Robin Michelle Stanfield, 32 of 500 James Toney Drive, Elon, was charged...

• Fatal car crash in Burlington, NC

  Dan Deuterman | July 23, 2007 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Alcohol and no seatbelt may have been a contributing factor in a fatal car crash that killed a Burlington, North Carolina man on Sunday, July 22, 2007. According to the News & Record, John Albert Byrd, Jr, 24, was a passenger in a car that ran off the road, stuck a culvert and a parked car before landing on its roof, as reported by the N.C. Highway Patrol. The accident happened on West Old Glen...

• Sinkhole shuts down Wendover Avenue in Greensboro

  Dan Deuterman | July 20, 2007 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  You don't see this every day.A water main broke in Greensboro, N.C., last week, causing a huge sinkhole to form on one of the city's busiest streets. The hole was so big that it swallowed a car -- a Honda Accord. Check out the photos under the multimedia link at the http://www.news-record.comNews & Record Web site.Here's the story of what happened;A water-main break early Wednesday under...

• Three women die in Guilford County car crash

  Dan Deuterman | July 18, 2007 9:44 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Three women died in a car crash in Guilford County on Tuesday, July 17. Dorothy Allred Davis, 86, of Sophia, Helen Allred Davidson, 90, of High Point and Ora Robbins Garret, 85, of High Point were traveling south on Coltrane Mill Road when the Toyota Corolla they were in collided with a flatbed truck near Highway 62 in southern Guilford County. All three women, two of whom were sisters, died...

• Fiery wreck kills driver, closes Interstate 85 for 7 hours

  Dan Deuterman | July 17, 2007 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  A Virginia woman who died in a fiery car crash on Interstate 85 may have fallen asleep at the wheel, according to police and media reports.In addition, median safety cables that should have stopped her car from crossing into oncoming traffic failed to do their job.Carolyn Ruth Mills, 59, of Bristow, Va., was killed in the car accident that occured just after 5 a.m. Monday on I-85. The Highway...