Automobile Accidents

• Auto Safety System Saves Lives, Fuel & More

  Susy Owen | June 18, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  A device that is new to the average automobile could prevent as many as 30, 000 accidents and 660 deaths every year in the United States. According to Clyde Stech, President, MAXAIR ATMI, Inc., which created the safety system, "This feature is ready and available and could be on all new automobiles. It's a matter of consumers demanding it and auto manufacturers making it available." Evidently,...

• Auto Crashes and Safety Belts

  Susy Owen | May 26, 2007 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  "Click It or Ticket" is a campaign slogan you may have seen and/or heard. If you have, then you know the message is spreading. The campaign runs from May 21 through June 3. It is a zero-tolerance initiative that really is for the good of all. I know personally that not only will you get a ticket for not wearing a seat belt, but if your car is not a vintage model and therefor has a shoulder strap...

• A Teenager, A Car Crash, A Tragedy

  Susy Owen | March 24, 2007 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  There has been a lot of contraversy regarding the current driving age and whether it should be raised for the safety of all drivers on the road. Teenagers are at a much higher risk of getting in an auto accident and/or dying in one than a driver over the age of 25. This story is every parent's nightmare and involves a teenage driver who did not learn from his actions. A New York teenager, Ralph...

• Automobile Accident Rise During Daylight Saving

  Susy Owen | March 12, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  For many, the news that daylight saving time would begin at 2:00 a.m. PST on Saturday, March 10 came as a surprise. People were expecting the usual change on the first Sunday in April. The change came as a result of a little known provision of the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended daylight saving time by four weeks. Additionally, clocks will turn back an hour on November 4...

• Child is Thrown 40 Feet When Father Drives Drunk

  Susy Owen | February 27, 2007 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  It is a bit of a stretch to call what happened to little 2-year-old Emaralda Villa-Ulloa an accident. It is true that in all likelyhood her 23-year-old father, Jorge Villa-Rubio of northeast Salam, did not intentionally throw his baby daughter 40 feet in the air as his car failed to follow a sharp right turn, went off the road and rolled. The fact is, however, according to police, the childs...

• Proposed Safety Measures for ATV Riders

  Susy Owen | February 09, 2007 11:01 AM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  According to the state Division of Motor Vehicles, in 2006 fifty-four people died as a result of ATV crashes. Approximately one half of those incidents occurred off road. After such a high number of deaths last year, three bills have been introduced in the House of Delegates. These bills would place safety restrictions on riders. Additionally, the bills would require owners to register the...

• Police Sued for Reckless Driving Resulting in Death

  Susy Owen | January 26, 2007 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Louisville Metro Police officer caused the death of a man when he drove the wrong way on a one-way street. Derek Butler, 38, had just left choir practice when the incident occured. He died at the scene. The wife of the decedent filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court on Friday. Officer Jason Brown, the offending officer, who had his lights and siren on, stated that he did not know that he...

• Auto Accident - What Should You Do?

  Susy Owen | January 05, 2007 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  There are few people who have not either been involved in an auto accident or who know someone who has. Car accidents-also known as road traffic accidents (RTAs), traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents, and crashes- kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number. It is estimated...

• Police Officer Struck by Car - Uninjured

  Christina Cole | December 28, 2006 6:26 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  A Stockton Police Officer struck by a car was not injured after responding to a domestic violence call on Tuesday, said police.Police responded to a call at 5:15pm to the 8400 block of Mariners Drive, where they were informed a man had dropped off his kids and then gotten into an argument with the mother, hitting her and another person.While at the scene taking the report, the man came back and...

• Helmet Proposal for Bike Riding

  Susy Owen | December 20, 2006 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  In Salt Lake City, leaders at City Hall are on the verge of proposing a helmet law that would require all adults to wear a helmet while riding a bike. The proposal got a unanimous thumbs-down from the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee (MABC). The Committee Chairman Lou Melini said that it wasn't so much that he was against the wearing of helmets, he just does not feel that it should be...