Automobile Accidents

• Alabama's weekend auto accidents kill seven

  Staff Writer | December 12, 2006 8:19 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  An Associated Press story yesterday reported that seven people died in weekend motor vehicle accidents throughout the state of Alabama. The accidents include a head-on crash in Choctaw County that killed two men, a one-car accident in which the driver ran off a Madison County bridge, and other traffic fatalities in Baldwin and Lauderdale Counties. The tragic death toll for the weekend should be...

• Four deadly accidents on Mobile County roads

  Staff Writer | November 30, 2006 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Alabama authorities reported that during two days last week there were four deaths from three traffic accidents in Mobile County. The first accident involved two men in a 1997 Ford Contour crash at Old Shell Road and Fairway Avenue. Both men died and were not wearing seatbeltsThe second accident involved a man who was ejected from his pick-up truck on Halls Mill Road in South Mobile when the...

• Three-vehicle crash injures six

  Staff Writer | November 28, 2006 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The Press-Register reported a motor vehicle accident involving three cars in south Mobile County Friday evening. A mother with three children in her car pulled out of a driveway and crashed into another car, critically injuring the mother. The second vehicle caught on fire after a third slammed into the mother's car, said Alabama State Troopers, who also reported that alcohol played a role in...

• Tragic early morning Thanksgiving car accident

  Staff Writer | November 27, 2006 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  An early morning single-car accident on Thanksgiving left one teen dead and one in critical condition, a report from the associated press said. The 17-year-old boy driving the car died at the scene, while the other three passengers lived. The 17-year-old male passenger was in critical condition at hte University of South Alabama Medical Center, and the other two passengers, a 15-year-old girl...

• No arrests yet in hit-and-run accident

  Staff Writer | November 20, 2006 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  In Troy, Alabama this past September a five-year-old girl was crossing the street with friends to go get ice cream when she was run over by a sport utility vehicle. The driver never stopped, and police are still investigating the hit-and-run accident. The girl suffered many injuries as a result of the accident, including a broken leg, ruptured kidney, broken pelvis and more. She has fortunately...

• Two Cullman rollover accidents in just over an hour

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Last Friday in Cullman, Alabama, two separate rollover accidents occurred in one day. Fortunately, no one was killed in the motor vehicle accidents, but two were injured. The first accident involved a collision between two vehicles on Alabama Highway 157. The people in the overturned vehicle had no injuries, but an Iowa woman who was a passenger in the second vehicle was injured.Just over an...

• Truck driver charged with vehicular homicide

  Staff Writer | November 15, 2006 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Three tragic deaths occurred last year in Washington during a tractor trailer crash with another vehicle, killing a mother and her two young children. Yesterday a judge charged the truck driver with vehicular homicide because he had been driving longer than the federal law allows. According to a Washington State Patrol report, Nesbitt had been driving longer than allowed under federal...

• Fatal accident on U.S. Hwy. 84

  Staff Writer | October 31, 2006 8:58 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Yet another fatal auto accident was reported today in The Andalusua Star-News. The tragic story describes the deaths of two men, who were not wearing seat belts, thrown from the 1997 Pontiac Trans-Am when it veered off the road and struck a bridge abutment. The Alabama Department of Public Safety is still investigating the accident.

• Accidents on Alabama 20 totaled 83 last year

  Staff Writer | October 30, 2006 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  According to a report from DecaturDaily.com yesterday, a stretch of just over two miles on Alabama 20 between I-65 and U.S. 31 has seen 83 motor vehicle accidents last year alone. Many drivers treat this dangerous stretch of four-lane country highway like it's an interstate. The story reports that although the road carries about 36,000 vehicles per day, it is only designed for up to 34,000. Tena...

• Alabama traffic and pedestrian accidents high

  Staff Writer | October 23, 2006 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Sadly, one need only scan recent headlines pointing to Alabama traffic and pedestrian accidents to see that the roads continue to be a dangerous place. One article on the Press-Register's al.com details the problem for pedestrians and how the government is addressing it. Two weeks in September brought nine pedestrian accidents in Mobile County alone. The Alabama Department of Public safety...