Two Virginia Beach families’ nightmares became life-shattering realities on an early December afternoon when a man backing a passenger van out of a driveway struck and inflicted fatal injuries on an 8-year-old boy. The child had been riding a Big Wheel around a cul-de-sac just off Centerville Turnpike. The boy initially survived the crash, but…
The Public Information Officer for the Virginia Beach Fire Department was seriously hurt in a recent pedestrian accident. According to details released by a spokesperson for the city, on October 13th, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the victim was leaving a project he was working on when he was struck by a truck as he was…
An early morning collision between a Jeep and a motorcycle in Virginia Beach, VA, left the motorcyclist dead and the woman driving the larger vehicle facing charges. The fatal crash happened shortly after midnight on October 4, 2020, near the interchange between I-264 and Lynnhaven Parkway. State police and emergency medical personnel declared…
A tragedy occurred in rural Middlesex County, Virginia (VA), on the evening of September 25, 2020. At around 7 pm, a woman exited a private driveway onto Route 33 and was struck by an oncoming pickup truck. The 73-year-old woman died at the scene of the T-bone crash west of the intersection with Route 625….
The following list of tragic facts appears on the Kids and Car website: In the United States, at least 50 children are being backed over by vehicles every week. The predominant age of victims is one year old (12-23 months). More than 60 percent of backing up incidents involved a larger vehicle such as a…