Georgia residents may have read media accounts about the stretch limousine accident that claimed the lives of 20 people in New York on Oct. 6. Investigators soon discovered that the Ford Excursion limousine involved had failed several safety inspections and was in a...
Month: October 2018
Teen drivers can be a hazard when driving other teens
Drivers in South Carolina may be wary of a car full of teens because they are concerned about the risk of a dangerous accident. These fears may be based on more than simple stereotypes about teen driving. For National Teen Driver Safety Week, the AAA Foundation for...
Dozens injured in apartment floor collapse
Some Georgia residents may be aware of the apartment floor collapse that happened on Oct. 21 just after midnight in South Carolina. The accident occurred near Clemson University at a clubhouse that had been rented for a private party. Ambulances were sent to the scene...
Trucking accidents and safety technology
New safety features on vehicles have been making roadways in Georgia safer. Nationwide, the number of motor vehicle accidents per mile driven has been decreasing since 1980. The number of fatal crashes reached an all-time low in 2009. There has been a divergence...
NTSB accuses NHTSA of ignoring safety technology for big trucks
The National Transportation Safety Board has been urging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to create regulations that require semi-trucks to adopt collision avoidance technology since the 1990s. Although trucking carriers in South Carolina can...
How one truckload carrier is preventing back-up crashes
Truckers in Georgia know that backing up a tractor trailer is the leading cause of truck accidents. RBX Inc., a truckload carrier that has been operating in the Midwest since 1983, has seen more than a few of its student drivers get in accidents when backing up their...
2017 saw decrease in car crashes, but not by much
In its report on 2017 car crash trends, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that there were 37,133 fatal crashes that year: a 1.8 percent decrease and an improvement from 2015 and 2016, which saw an 8.4 and 6.5 percent increase, respectively....
Woman killed in South Carolina head-on crash
A head-on collision in South Carolina on the afternoon on Sept. 28 claimed the life of a 51-year-old woman, according to local reports. The accident took place on Bramlett Church Road in Laurens County at approximately 4 p.m. The South Carolina Highway Patrol says...
Georgia police officer pleads guilty in a fatal car crash
During a regular shift in January 2017, a Gwinnett County police officer responded to a car crash call around 9:00 p.m. For what remains undisclosed reasons, the young officer raced to the scene at 97 miles per hour. Unfortunately, the officer never made it to the...
Large truck fatalities increased in 2017
Georgia readers may be concerned to learn that fatal motor vehicle accidents involving large trucks jumped by 9 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, according to new federal statistics. The increase occurred even though overall traffic deaths decreased by 1.8 percent...