Car Accidents
New regulations take aim at truck and bus companies
Last year, roughly 4,000 Americans lost their lives in commercial vehicle accidents. While that number represents a nearly 5 percent decrease in fatalities since 2010, still far too many people lose their lives in accidents related to safety violations by...
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New regulations aim to reduce trucking accidents
Historically the American trucking industry has been driven by a need to transport as many goods and products as possible in as little amount of time as possible. In recent years, strict deadlines and increased competition resulted in many truckers...
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Driver injured when garbage can is thrown at car on I-79
Very few people in the state of Pennsylvania are interested in actually causing a car accident of any magnitude. In fact, most do what they can to make sure the actions they are taking do not result in any harm...
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Ohio dump truck driver dies after tire blowout
This blog has written extensively about the victims of commercial truck accidents. One of the first things people think when they hear about truck accidents is that a truck driver carelessly caused an accident that injured and killed other drivers....
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College students perish in train derailment
Loved ones of two 19-year-old young women who died in a train derailment accident are grieving the fact that their lives ended so soon. The young women were killed when coal the train was transporting fell on them when the...
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Alleged drunk driver injures man when he hits restaurant
It is not likely that the occupant of a Pittsburgh area restaurant was expecting to be involved in a car accident earlier this month. Nonetheless, the man was pinned against a wall after a car barreled into the building shortly...
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Suspended drivers crowd Ohio roads
With roughly 7.6 million licensed drivers in the state of Ohio, an estimated 2.8 million license suspension citations were issued last year to nearly one million Ohio residents. Ohio traffic laws include 43 different types of driver's license suspensions for...
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Ohio community mourns loss of teen killed in car accident
Members of an Ohio community are mourning the loss of a 16-year-old boy who recently died in a fatal rollover car accident. One of five teen passengers in the car, he sustained fatal injuries when the speeding car crashed, ripped...
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Ohio city to debate stricter distracted driver laws
As of Aug. 30, Ohio drivers who chose to text while driving can be fined. While proponents of the law banning texting and driving agree drivers who text present an increased danger in causing or being involved in motor vehicle...
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Several injured in Pittsburgh hit-and-run bus accident
Car accidents are a common occurrence in cities throughout the country, including Pittsburgh. Each weekday individuals take to the road in cars and buses to get to their jobs located there. With all of the traffic in the downtown portion...
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Police commander in Pittsburgh hurt in head-on collision
As most people are aware, anyone who is in a car can be involved in a motor vehicle accident at any time. This is true regardless of one's age, gender or occupation. A Pittsburgh police commander recently experienced this first...
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Car accident near Parkway Center Mall involves police trooper
Generally, it is expected that law enforcement will be called to the scene of a car accident, not be involved in one. Nonetheless, as police officers get around in automobiles, it is inevitable that cruisers will at times be involved....
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