Motorcycle Awareness Month Coming to North Carolina
The month of May would be designated Motorcycle Awareness Month if House Bill 105 becomes law. From the sandy Highway 12 on the Outer Banks to the curves of the Blue Ridge Parkway, North...
Transportation
Greensboro Native, NC State Student Dies in Motorcycle Wreck
About 80 percent of motorcycle accidents result in serious injury, whereas only 20% of automobile crashes cause the same outcome. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...
Fatigue Contributes to Multivehicle Collision, Ten Deaths
On September 28, 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, D.C. announced its determination that a fatal multicar crash that occurred on June 26, 2009 in Miami, Oklahoma...
Robert Griffin Previtte Jr. killed in collision in Greensboro, N.C.
Robert Griffin Previtte Jr. was killed Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 when his motorcycle collided with an SUV on Tower Road in Greensboro, North Carolina. The passenger on the motorcycle, Debra Voncannon...
Motorcycle rider killed in crash near Sophia, N.C.
Michael Carroll Lewis of Sophia was riding his motorcycle west on Mount Gilead Church Road near the Hillsville Community in Randolph County, North Carolina, when he was struck by a Ford Explorer....
Pedestrian Killed on Exit Ramp near Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A man was killed on the morning of May 17, 2010 while he stood on the side of an exit ramp waiting for the pickup truck he’d been riding in to be removed from the mud. Torrential rains...
UPDATE: Fatal Mother’s Day Collision Caused by Cell Phone Usage?
I recently posted a blog about two multi-car collisions that both occurred on the same stretch of Interstate 40 in Greensboro, North Carolina on Mother’s Day, May 9, 2010. The first wreck...
Update: Pregnant Woman, Infant Die in Scooter Crash
Digtriad.com reports that additional charges have been filed against a man who was driving a scooter during a deadly wreck in High Point, North Carolina on March 27, 2010. Jerry Lee Phillips,...
Scooter Accident Results in Deaths of Pregnant Woman, Crystal M. Grimes, and Her Infant
What should have been a joyful occasion—the delivery of an infant—for the family of Crystal M. Grimes, 30, turned into a tragic event on March 27, 2010. The child was delivered at High...
Crashes Involving Human-Powered Vehicles Abound
Though automobile drivers are often the culprits of collisions with cyclists, sometimes the cyclist makes a poor decision that can result in extreme bodily harm and even death. Glenn Thomas Brunck...
