An Iowa Interstate Railroad employee suffered serious abdominal injuries when a freight train backing up in the rail yard for a Council Bluffs, IA, power plant crashed through a closed gate, bent a guardrail and pinned him in place so tightly rescuers needed to use heavy cutting tools to free him. News reports noted that…
A head-on collision in northwest Washington D.C. has killed two people, reports police. The accident occurred on Canal Road near Clark Place early Friday morning. The at-fault driver lost control of his Jaguar. The vehicle slid across the road and into oncoming traffic, police said. The Jaguar collided with a 2007 Ford pickup and both…
A 7-week old child died in a windowless supply closet inside Little Eagles Day Care in Norfolk, Virginia (VA). The day care center, now closed, was affiliated with the Bethel Temple Church of Deliverance, on East Little Creek Road. The infant died because he was reportedly allowed to sleep on his stomach and was left…
On January 8th, 2011, a boy crossing Piney Forest Road as a pedestrian with his mother in Danville , Virginia (VA), was struck by a car. The accident occurred just before noon, when the pair was near the intersection of Woodside Drive . The boy was traveling east, crossing the southbound side of the road,…
Wednesday, a jury found Jeremy White of Paso Robles negligent in causing an accident in 2007 that paralyzed a former California Highway Patrol officer and killed a motorist. The accident occurred when the officer pulled a vehicle over for a traffic violation and was talking to the driver through the passenger window. It was then…