Traffic Accidents: Leading Cause of Death among North Carolina Teens

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among teens between the ages of 15 and 20 in North Carolina. National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration statistics show this is also true for teens in the U.S. as a whole. NHTSA studies show teens are three times more likely to...

Rear View Cameras May Save Lives in North Carolina

Back-over deaths occur when a driver hits and injures another person while backing up. Tragically, the victims in these types of accidents are most often children under the age of 5 and adults over the age of 70. Many of these accidents occur in the driveways of residential neighborhoods and...

Highway Bill Includes Electronic Record Enforcement for Trucks

Recently the U.S. Senate approved a highway transportation bill, which among other things, mandates the use of electronic onboard recorders (EOBR) on commercial trucks. An EOBR is a device that records information about the operation of commercial trucks on roads across the country, including those here in North Carolina. The...

Off to Court–Companies Challenge New Trucking Hours Rule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently announced that it has decided not to change its 11-hour shift limit for truck drivers. The agency was under pressure from other government transportation agencies and some members of the public to lower the cap to 10-hour shifts, in the interest of protecting...

Teenage Driving Deaths Rise in 2011 in North Carolina

For the first time in eight years, there was an increase in teenage deaths due to car accidents during the first half of 2011. Deaths for 16- and 17-year-old drivers increased 11 percent during the first half of last year rising from 190 to 211 deaths. North Carolina was also...

Marijuana Plus Driving Equals an Increased Risk of a Car Accident

First it was drunk driving, then it was distracted driving and now it is drugged driving. It seems people don’t just get in their car and drive anymore. Contrary to popular belief, marijuana does affect your coordination, concentration and reaction time. All of these impairments combine to make a car accident much...

ESPN sideline reporter sues for emotional distress in hotel peephole case

According to Tom Weir reporting for USA Today, Erin Andrews is the ESPN sports network’s “most famous sideline reporter.” Well, the most famous sideline reporter for ESPN is now suing the Marriott Hotel and her stalker, Michael Barrett, who filmed Andrews in the nude through a peephole in her hotel...

New study examines teen driving in North Carolina

According to a new study by the Automobile Association of America, the likelihood of a teen driver being involved in a car crash during the first month of driving without supervision is 50 percent greater than after a year of driving independently. After analyzing the data, researchers concluded that 57 percent of...

Problems with the Medtronic Infuse bone graft medical device

As Laura Miller writes for Becker’s Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management Review, “off-label” use of the Infuse bone graft medical device has caused serious complications in patients who underwent certain types of back surgery – leading some in the industry to make charges that Medtronic has a defective product on its hands,...

Big funeral for victims of North Carolina car wreck

As Romando Dixson reports for the Citizen-Times, there were hundreds of people – more than 500 – who turned out for the funeral of three men who were recently killed in a car wreck. “He was a young guy with a lot of enthusiasm and a very humble, hard worker,” says...

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Traffic Accidents: Leading Cause of Death among North Carolina Teens

Rear View Cameras May Save Lives in North Carolina

Highway Bill Includes Electronic Record Enforcement for Trucks

Off to Court–Companies Challenge New Trucking Hours Rule

Teenage Driving Deaths Rise in 2011 in North Carolina

Marijuana Plus Driving Equals an Increased Risk of a Car Accident

ESPN sideline reporter sues for emotional distress in hotel peephole case

New study examines teen driving in North Carolina

Problems with the Medtronic Infuse bone graft medical device

Big funeral for victims of North Carolina car wreck

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