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• Motorcycle accidents on rise during summer

  Staff Writer | June 25, 2007 10:07 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  An article from the Times-Herald in Arkansas details the dangers for motorcyclists on our nation's roadways, especially during the summer months. According to the article, motorcycle accidents are more likely during the warmer, sunnier summer months that attract riders to the roads.In mid-June, there were two such accidents in Forrest City, Arkansas, that caused serious injuries to the...

• Warning from CPSC on Kazuma Meerkat 50 ATV

  Staff Writer | June 15, 2007 3:58 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  The Kazuma Meerkat 50 Youth All-Terrain Vehicle, which is designed for children from 6 to 11 years old, is not being recalled even though the product has serious safety defects. This all terrain vehicle lacks front brakes, has no parking brake and can be started in gear, which puts many children in serious danger of injury. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was unable to recall the...

• Study says weight affects risk of worksite injury

  Staff Writer | June 15, 2007 1:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A workplace injury study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy says that obesity can increase the risk of a worksite injury. Published in May 2007, in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the study's findings show that a body mass index (BMI) in the obese category significantly raises the possibilities for trauma injuries on the job. Of...

• Recall on Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Toys Due to Lead

  Staff Writer | June 15, 2007 10:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The RC2 Corporation is recalling over 1.5 million wooden train toys and accessories from the "Thomas and Friends" series because the paint the product is decorated with contains lead. Many young children have the habit of putting their toys in their mouths. Lead happens to be toxic if ingested by young children.The front of the packaging will have a logo on the upper left hand corner that says...

• Trucking Accident Claims Woman's Life

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2007 2:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A Virgina woman was killed this week in a tractor-trailer accident when her car collided head on with an 18-wheeler freshly loaded with beer from a Coors plant. The woman died instantly when she swerved across the center line.Police will likely not press any charges against the truck driver, Michael Jerome Givens, 59, of Gastonia, N.C., said David Fisher, a trooper with the Virginia State Police...

• Fatal weekend wreck claims three lives

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2007 12:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  A rising senior at University of Alabama and three other passengers died in a tragic weekend car crash on a Georgia highway, reports The Crimson White campus newspaper.The UA senior reportedly died in the accident that happened around midnight when the driver of a 2005 Jeep Liberty lost control of the SUV and flipped the vehicle several times. Apparently three other passengers who were not...

• Two-car accident with multiple injuries

  Staff Writer | June 11, 2007 12:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Press-Register reported yesterday on a two-car crash on Airport Boulevard near Newman Road in Mobile that injured five people, including an infant.The vehicles collided at about 10:20 a.m. Sunday when a man driving a 1991 Ford Mustang hit a 2000 Nissan Maxima while trying to make a turn.The injured included a 5-month-old boy, his mother, a 5-year-old girl, her mother and the man driving the...

• Deadly head-on collision claims woman's life

  Staff Writer | June 01, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Press-Register reported a deadly head-on collision that killed a Baldwin County woman on Thursday morning just south of Silverhill.The woman was driving on Baldwin County 55 at about 5:45 a.m., when her car crashed into another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle was injured in the accident. Both drivers were reportedly wearing seatbelts, and the cause of the accident is under...