Automobile Accidents

• Aggressive Driver? -PWNED!

  Pierce Egerton | September 04, 2009 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Aggressive drivers are big, fat pains in the rump. It’s amazing how some people act when they get behind the wheel. They cut people off, tailgate, try to skip to the front of backed up traffic...

• Officers On The Job To Make Our Holiday Safer

  Pierce Egerton | September 03, 2009 8:40 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  This Labor Day weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the “Booze It & Lose It” mobilization to crack down on impaired drivers in North Carolina. The Labor Day “Booze It &...

• More Than 1,300 Charged With DWI During North Carolina “Booze It & Lose It: Operation Firecracker”

  Pierce Egerton | July 11, 2009 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Yesterday, Gov. Bev Perdue announced in a press release that state and local law enforcement officers cited 1,340 motorists for driving while impaired (DWI) during the “Booze It & Lose It:...

• North Carolina Slow to Prosecute Teens for Cell Phone Driving Offenses

  Dan Deuterman | December 31, 2007 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Distracted teenage drivers chatting away on the cell phone can have deadly consequences, as we've written about here before.But only 23 teens in North Carolina have been convicted so far under a state law that went into effect last year that bans teenage drivers from talking on cell phones. These stats make me wonder and ask two questions: Are cops too busy to stop and ticket teen drivers who...

• 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...

• 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...

• Labor Day Matchup: SUV vs. Minivan in Downtown Greensboro

  Pierce Egerton | September 07, 2009 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Three people were injured in a Labor Day morning collision in downtown Greensboro. According to Fox8, the accident occurred around 11:00 am at the intersection of East Market and Davie. The SUV, a...

• Thank You Officers

  Pierce Egerton | September 04, 2009 6:57 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  I’m one of those people that think the media focus too often on negative stories and ignore newsworthy positive events. So when I came across a press release about five people were recently...

• Update: Sad News In Monday’s Crash On US 29

  Pierce Egerton | July 01, 2009 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  The News & Record is reporting a tragic development in Monday’s single-vehicle crash on US 29. You may recall from my earlier blog entry that an 18-year-old young man was seriously...