Automobile Accidents

• Highway Patrol Out In Force This Weekend

  Pierce Egerton | July 02, 2009 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  We have already seen several serious accidents in the Piedmont this week and with far too many fatalities. Now we are on the eve of what is traditionally one of the most dangerous weekends of the...

• Wal-Mart Sues Disabled Women to Recoup Medical Benefits

  Dan Deuterman | March 24, 2008 3:47 PM | 4 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  When Debbie Shank began working as a stock clerk at Wal-Mart, she joined the company's health and benefits plan and paid her premiums as insurance against injury or illness.In 2000, Shank's car was rammed by a semi, and she suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused her to be permanently disabled. Her insurance kicked in and paid promptly for her medical bills -- for which Shank's family was...

• I-40 Crash Injures Two

  Pierce Egerton | July 08, 2009 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  The Greensboro Police Department’s Traffic Safety and Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating a collision Tuesday that closed four of the five eastbound lanes on I-40 according to Fox8...

• July is Deadliest Month for Children in Hot Cars: Eighteen children have died in hot cars so far this year, most in the Southeast

  Pierce Egerton | July 11, 2009 12:15 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  In the time it takes to run into the store and grab some milk, stand in line at the post office or go inside to pay for gas - in just 10 minutes - the temperature inside a car can rise 19 degrees....

• 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...

• 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...

• Drunk Driver Hits Three Pedestrians, Flees Scene

  Pierce Egerton | October 01, 2009 11:17 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  This week I wrote about a sad accident in which a pedestrian, Lucille Lambeth, was struck by a pickup in front of the Asheboro Wal-Mart. Mrs. Lambeth was airlifted to Duke Medical Center but they...

• 2 Year Old Boy Run Over on His Birthday

  Lawrence Egerton | September 16, 2009 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Another celebration turns into a tragedy in the Triad this weekend as the birthday party for 2 year old Andre Wright is cut short when he is struck by a passing car. Driver Maurice Belser hit the...

• Tragic Car Accident Death on Wedding Day

  Lawrence Egerton | September 15, 2009 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  A young Raleigh man was killed this Sunday just hours before he was to marry his fiancée, Karen Taylor. Chris Raynor, age 28, was riding in the back seat with a groomsman on their way to...

• Boy's Death a Reminder of the Danger to Riding in the Bed of Pickup Trucks

  Pierce Egerton | July 09, 2009 2:11 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC

  Riding in the back of pickup trucks sometimes feels like a southern tradition. Most of us have probably done it at one time or another. It brings to mind many things from summer nights under the...