North Carolina (NC) has the dubious honor of being ranked in the top-15 states for railroad crossing collisions/accidents. There have been 69 car-rail crossing accidents in North Carolina (NC) this year. In addition, over the past decade, there have been more than 30,000 railroad crossing accidents and more than 3,600 train accident deaths. Sixty-four percent of all railroad wrecks occurred in…
The pilot of a Mooney M-20 airplane went out for a flight and wound up crashing into the woods of Suffolk, Virginia (VA). Why? Because the plane’s FL-2 fuel gauge malfunctioned and did not alert the pilot that the plane ran out of gas, according to the Kathryn Report. There were two passengers on the plane along…
There are numerous challenges to safe driving. You take your eyes off the road and you can get into a car accident. You press on the brakes too soon, or too late, and you can get into a wreck. You may incur a blown tire while driving on the highway that causes your vehicle to…
William E. Goode, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia (VA) was driving on the northbound lane of Interstate 295 (I-295). It was 11:40pm, just 20 minutes away from the New Year. Unfortunately, Mr. Goode never got a chance to celebrate our foray into a new decade. He was hit and killed by a wrong-way driver, according to the…