July 29, 2011
The husband of a woman whose wrong-way driving killed eight people on a New York parkway says the road’s warning signs were insufficient. Daniel Schuler of West Babylon has filed a lawsuit against the state on behalf of a daughter …
July 19, 2011
The jury has ruled that the state and a contractor were not responsible after a woman died when the car she was in fell through a hole in a bridge near St. Joseph. A Buchanan County jury on Wednesday ruled …
July 7, 2011
Police say a charter bus driver had fallen asleep when the vehicle hit a highway sign, swerved and overturned on Interstate 35 in Central Texas. San Marcos police on Wednesday released their report on last Friday’s accident that closed northbound …
June 24, 2011
Investigators say the California driver of a car that flipped, killing two passengers, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal driving limit. San Luis Obispo County prosecutors say 21-year-old Evan Alexander Green, a Chico State University student, pleaded not …
June 22, 2011
A motorist driving the wrong-way on a California desert interstate is dead after slamming head-on into a big-rig. The trucker wasn’t hurt, but his tractor-trailer rig carrying paper and electronic equipment caught fire. The California Highway Patrol says the crash …
June 17, 2011
Prosecutors have accused a truck driver of having marijuana in his system when he struck and killed a road construction worker in northeastern Indiana. The Adams County Prosecutor’s Office filed a felony charge of causing death while driving with a …
June 3, 2011
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him. Wednesday’s 5-2 ruling stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss had a blood-alcohol level of .196 percent, …
May 6, 2011
A dump truck rear-ended a school bus in suburban Kansas City, sending six students and the bus driver to hospitals with apparently minor injuries. Lee’s Summit School District spokeswoman Janice Phelan says the students were headed to the AmericanJazzMuseum when …