Posts tagged Car Accidents

• Wal-Mart Sues Disabled Women to Recoup Medical Benefits

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

  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...

• Teen Killed In Fatal BMW Crash Sought Speeding Advice in Online Forum

  Dan Deuterman | January 30, 2008 1:36 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Just 12 hours before he died in a reckless, high-speed crash, an 18-year-old Florida man logged onto an online forum for BMW drivers and asked for tips on driving his faster.Later that same night, Joshua Ammirato raced his 2008 BMW M5 off an airstrip and into a tree. He and four other young men from Marion County in Florida were killed in the high-speed crash that clearly was the result of...

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

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

  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...

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

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...