Posts tagged highway

• The Deadliest Job: Crash Takes Life of Road Worker on US 29

  Pierce Egerton | September 25, 2009 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It’s one of the most dangerous jobs in America -- road construction. This afternoon another road worker died. Paul Daniel Macintyre, working for Protective Services of High Point, was riding...

• Fight Breaks Out; I-40 Down for the Count

  Pierce Egerton | September 09, 2009 3:51 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Why was I-40 backed up for over an hour in Winston-Salem? According to WXII (get ready) two women and a man pulled over and engaged in a fistfight over a cell phone. The spectacle distracted...

• Highway Cowards - Running From Decency & Responsibility

  Pierce Egerton | September 08, 2009 8:08 PM | 4 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The past week or so several of my colleagues and I have written about the perils posed by uninsured drivers. Many of the postings pointed out that uninsured drivers are more likely to be persons...

• Aggressive Driver? -PWNED!

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

  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...

• Thank You Officers

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

  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: Police Still Searching for 5 People Connected to Fatal Hit and Run Accident on Hwy 29

  Pierce Egerton | August 05, 2009 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The driver of the Ford Expedition involved in the hit and run accident that left Cherita Jones dead has been brought into custody. Alton Womack Jr., age 26, was arrested at his home on Saturday...

• Police Still Searching for 5 People Connected to Fatal Hit and Run Accident on Hwy 29

  Pierce Egerton | July 31, 2009 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Highway 29 was host to a fatal hit and run early Monday. The circumstances surrounding the crash remain unclear. What is clear is that one young woman, Cherita Jones, died as a result. There is...

• Watch for Deer on the Highway: Lawrence and Linda in Virginia

  Lawrence Egerton | July 17, 2009 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  My wife Linda and I recently took a trip through Virginia and West Virginia. As we traveled past the beautiful trees mountains and creeks that make up the countryside here, we were lucky enough to...

• Highway Patrol Out In Force This Weekend

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

  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...

• Update on Fatal US 64 Accident -- Troopers Investigating Blowout

  Pierce Egerton | July 01, 2009 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The News & Record is now reporting more information about yesterday’s tragic accident on U.S. 64 in Randolph County that took the lives of Clarence and Elizabeth Poe of Sophia, NC. ...