After an SUV slammed into an HRT bus at the intersection of St. Pauls Boulevard and Main Street in downtown Norfolk, Virginia (VA), three people went to the hospital for treatment of crash-related injuries. Speaking with WAVY-TV 10 after the accident at around 2 pm on February 8, 2012, a Hampton Roads Transit spokesman said…
January 26, 2012, could have been deadly for a commercial small plane pilot and his passenger who had planned a quick from Suffolk, Virginia (VA), to Cambridge, Maryland (MD). Fortunately, both George McClellan of McClellan Aviation Services and Jesse Johnson Jr., who is the husband of Suffolk’s mayor, walked away uninjured from their crash landing at…
When the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground the island of Giglio, thousands of passengers were forced from their cabins to flee for lifeboats. It was a vacationer’s worst nightmare — a shipwreck that left dozens injured, at least 16 dead and 16 missing. Now, the ship’s owner and operator, Carnival Cruise Line subsidiary Costa…
When their twin-engine Cessna Skymaster experienced engine trouble, crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from an Atlanta, Georgia (GA), airfield in 2007, it was unclear whether the dermatologist and professional pilot from Ohio (OH) would survive the third-degree burns, broken bones and head injuries they suffered. While the doctor and his fiance pulled…
As of this writing, six people are known dead and many others remain missing after the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground near a small island off Italy. The ship, owned by a Carnival Crusie Lines subsidiary, crashed because of captain’s error. He is now being charged with manslaughter and abandoning the ship while it…