Even though texting and driving is against the law in North Carolina, people still engage in the dangerous behavior. According to North Carolina crash data, the number of distracted driving crashes spiked 10 percent in a five year period, with more than 54,000 accidents blamed on distracted driving, killing 177 victims. One North Carolina…
A sudden and improper lane change by a tractor-trailer driver set the stage for a fatal head-on collision in Iredell County, North Carolina (NC). The deadly two-vehicle crash happened in the Mooresville area at around 11:50 pm on March 29, 2018. According to law enforcement authorities, the driver of the tractor-trailer was traveling…
Four people died and a fifth person went to the hospital with severe injuries after their vehicles collided head-on in a rural part of Robeson County, North Carolina (NC), on the night of March 29, 2018. State troopers said operating at an unsafe speed caused one of the drivers to cross the center line of…
Earlier this year, one of my Carolina wrongful death law firm colleagues highlighted the alarming, and growing, number of fatal wrong-way collisions on the interstates through and around Charlotte. Sadly, the early morning hours of March 25, 2018, saw two more names added to the list of drivers killed in head-on collisions on I-85 and…
A driver speeding through a parking lot in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (NC), seriously injured five pedestrians just before noon on March 14, 2018. The collision illustrates the risks of what federal traffic safety officials a call “nontraffic” crashes, as well as the problem of unlicensed and uninsured drivers. Local police responded to…