Image Courtesy Thomas23 The best way to deal with transportation disasters is to prevent them. With that goal in mind, the NC Department of Transportation is co-sponsoring a safety event for…
Traffic on I-85 / photo credit Jenny Rossbach If you’re heading to the beach early for the Independence Day weekend and your journey includes I-85 South in Orange County, you may want to…
It always strikes a chord in our emotions when sports stars die, especially when they die before their time. Lorenzo Charles was 47. He was, of course, the player on the famed Cardiac Pack team who…
I love sprouts. They are crunchy, delicious and usually healthy. But not when they come with a side of a rare strain of salmonella. Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a…
Many of my neighbors in Alamance County suffered major damage in the tornadoes and storms of April 16, 2011. They will be happy to learn that yesterday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
Seat belted of course! It is probably the single most important safety measure you can take when travelling by car. The results are now in from the “Click It or Ticket” campaign,…
Now we know. West Goshen Police Chief Michael Carroll told the Daily Local News that Jackass celebrity Ryan Dunn’s BAC (blood alcohol content) was over twice the legal limit when he and his…
There’s been a lot of press attention lately on the dangers of distracted driving. I and many of my Injury Board colleagues have also posted articles on the topic. Yesterday, the NTSB released…
By now you probably have heard about Jackass star, Ryan Dunn’s tragic death at the wheel of his Porsche 911 in the early hours of Monday morning. My friend Mike Bryant posted an article this morning…
It’s sad when a little boy says he doesn’t want to ride his bike anymore. But we can at least be thankful that a family doesn’t have much, much more to be sad about in this hit-and-run case in…
Ryan Dunn on far left / Image from Ryan Dunn Twitter Ryan Dunn, 34, star of MTV’s Jackass television and film productions was killed in a single car collision near Philadelphia in West Goshen,…
Say it ain’t so! The Gaga is bald? Probably just a skin cap. But just in case its not, here’s what she — and the rest of us — need to know about the new sunscreen labels. New label rules are…