Posts tagged Accidents

• Durable Power of Attorney over Health Care Issues

  Gaines Drago | September 23, 2009 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  No one likes to think about their own mortality, especially while feeling vibrant and alive. The It could never happen to me attitude, dominates our thoughts, and while it is true that most of the...

• Four-Wheelers Are Not Toys

  Pete Mackey | September 09, 2009 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Like many folks in the Mobile area, I went to the beach on Labor Day. On my way home, I saw two young boys coming the other way on a four wheeler in the grass next to the road. This road is a four...

• Overboard passenger in Gulf of Mexico...

  Troy Schwant | June 16, 2009 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Last night tragedy struck the carnival cruise lines that sails out of Mobile, Al, when an unidentified fifty (50) year old apparently fell overboard approximately 70 miles off the coast of...

• Bicycle safety tips....

  Troy Schwant | January 04, 2009 10:57 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With Christmas bringing new bicycles to both kids and parents, the importance of bicycle safety should be stressed to all new cyclists. Unfortunately, this past weekend a South Alabama resident was...

• Rear-facing carseats

  Pete Burns | December 31, 2008 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Rear-facing carseats are substantially safer than front-facing car seats for children up to 3 to 4 years old. The following youtube video clip is 3 minutes and 28 seconds long. It graphically...

• 4 Injured, 2 Killed in Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | February 25, 2008 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A two vehicle accident, Monday, claimed two lives and left four others injured.There have been 78 Alabama traffic fatalities reported in 2008 so far this year. At this time in 2007, there were 95 reported accidents.Lawrence County Coroner's Office pronounced two men - 39, of Hartselle and 39, of Decatur - dead at the scene, according to Decatur State Troopers.The driver, a man, 60, of Crane Hill...

• One Teen killed, One Critically Injured in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 17, 2008 12:53 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Marbury High School student, 18, was killed in a car accident when his vehicle went into an intersection in front of an oncoming log truck, said the Alabama Department of Public Safety. The passenger, a sophomore, 15, is in critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery at Baptist Medical Center."It went through my mind that this can't be happening again," said Marbury High School...

• Alabama Truck Driver Pleads Guilty in Deaths of Guardsmen

  Chrissie Cole | February 15, 2008 1:47 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A Citronelle truck driver accused of killing two members of the Alaska National Guard, in a 2006 truck accident, has plead guilty to charges accusing him of driving while under the influence of drugs.The man, 49, of Citronelle entered a guilty plea, Thursday, to four counts of driving under the influence. The trial started on Wednesday in Perry County Circuit Court.Prosecutors said an 18-wheeler...

• Mobile Woman Killed in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 13, 2008 10:44 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Mobile woman, 27, died from injuries she suffered in a car accident, on Friday, when the car she was driving overturned.The woman was ejected from her automobile, although authorities have confirmed she was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, reported a spokesman for Saraland Police Department.She was traveling alone in her Honda Accord when it flipped several times on her way home...

• Gasoline Tanker Accident Shuts Down Alabama Interstate

  Chrissie Cole | February 03, 2008 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  State trooper's shutdown both lanes of Northbound Interstate 85 to clean up the aftermath of a trucking accident that involved an overturned tanker truck transporting gasoline.The tanker rolled down the side ramp at exit 22 and came to rest between the exit ramp and the interstate, according to officials on the scene.The driver of the truck suffered minor injuries. The Alabama Department of...