During the latest blast of snow and ice covering North Carolina (NC), a man out walking along U.S. Highway 70 in Wayne County near Goldsboro was struck and killed by a NCDOT snowplow. In what can be described as almost a freak accident, Mark Walston, 21, was run over by a truck driven by an…
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an alert titled “Pottery Barn Kids Recalls to Repair Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards.” It marked at least the third time in the past year that the agency worked with a manufacturer to get potentially dangerous drop-side cribs fixed or out…
A motorcycle rider suffered fatal injuries when he collided with a pickup truck in Kernersville, North Carolina (NC), on the afternoon of December 18, 2017. The deadly wreck happened in 500 block of Hopkins Road, a little north of the turnoffs to regents road and Timberwood Trail. Local police responded to the scene…
A three-vehicle wreck on a bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway south of Wilmington, North Carolina (NC), left a dump truck driver dead and a commercial van driver hospital. It remains unclear if the passenger van driver who appears to have caused the fatal chain-reaction crash on G.V. Barbee Bridge will face charges. Oak…
Two CSX train crew workers were killed and two other railroad workers were injured when two freight trains slammed into one another in Union County, North Carolina (NC). The trains were traveling through Mineral Springs when one train hit the other from behind, according to wspa.com. One of the CSX railroad workers died at the…