A four-year old boy was killed in a crash and his mother is battling for her life at a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital. Catawba county highway patrol informed news channel 36 WCNC that a Ms.Tina Travis sideswiped a vehicle at a gas station along Blackburn Bridge Road just beyond Maiden, N.C. around 3 p.m. Witnesses…
Three people died and six were seriously injured in a major traffic accident involving a 15-passenger van and a large tractor trailer on U.S. 601 in Lodge, South Carolina (SC). The van allegedly pulled out in front of the tractor trailer, according to thesunnews.com. The tractor trailer wound up flipping over and spilling its load…
Recently-elected Governor Bob McDonnell is pushing to raise the speed limit in parts of Virginia where the population is “sparse,” according to NBC News, but will this cause more injuries or deaths on the interstate highways? McDonnell wants the speed limit in rural Virginia (VA) areas on I-64, I-77, I-81 and I-95 to be raised…
On Feb. 11, 2009, a man went to see Orange, Virginia (VA), doctor Amy Cooley, complaining of a three-week case of heartburn and pain and pressure in his chest. Cooley, according to a report in the Fredericksburg Freelance Lance-Star, determined that the man had a blood pressure of 200/100 mm Hg and, despite having prescriptions…
Just before Thanksgiving 2009, two juries handed down separate judgments ordering the maker of the hormone replacement therapy medication Prempro to pay former users of the drug more than $100 million in damages. The juries concluded from evidence present at the trials that Prempro use contributed to the women’s development of breast cancer. A Peoria,…