First responders in South Carolina are aiming to improve seat belt usage throughout the state. In 2018 alone, 349 people lost their lives in car accidents when they were not wearing their seat belts, including a number of teens. One woman who was herself injured in a...
At around 6:20 p.m. on April 22, an accident took place in Georgia's Richmond County that involved four vehicles and sent two people, one of them a sheriff's deputy, to the hospital. The intersection of Jones and 15th Street had to be closed down for several hours as...
Multiple people were taken to the hospital after a head-on accident that took place in Georgia on April 4. A state trooper was attempting to pull a driver over for going 75 mph in a 45 mph zone. However, the driver reportedly did not stop for the officer, which led to...
Many safe driving campaigns in the United States focus on the dangers of drinking or texting while driving. However, driving while feeling drowsy can be just as dangerous. In one study, half of American drivers admitted they got behind the wheel at least at one point...
In 2013, there were 37 deaths involving fire trucks, police cars or ambulances around the country. In the first four months of 2019, 16 first responders were struck and killed by cars. Now, a survey from the National Safety Council and the Emergency Responder Safety...
On April 1, a chain-reaction car accident started by a veteran police officer critically injured two people in Georgia. The crash occurred just before 5:30 p.m. on northbound Interstate 85 in Gwinnett County. According to local media reports, an officer with the...
Georgia residents should know that police had to close the intersection of South Carolina Highway 253 and Cedar Lane Road while a crash was being investigated. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office has released details about the crash that occurred the morning of...
Pickup truck owners in Georgia should know the results of some recent crash tests that were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Since 2017, the IIHS has been testing the safety of both driver and front passenger sides, and it looked at 11 two-row...
Georgia residents may have heard about a two-car crash that occurred in Anderson County around 9:40 p.m. on March 22. South Carolina Highway Patrol pinpoint the site of the crash as being on US 29 near Smith Motors Road. It involved an SUV heading north on US 29 and a...
Georgia State Patrol says that a 15-year-old girl was speaking on a cellphone when the Lincoln Navigator SUV she was driving struck a car in Lee County and badly injured the other driver. The accident took place at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Highway 82 near Tower Lane...
