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Posted by Michael Chandler
June 10, 2008 1:46 PM

The North Carolina Highway Patrol reports that another head on collision occurred on Interstate - 485 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The car accident which occurred on June 9 around 11:15 pm is the...

April 14, 2008 3:55 PM

The Charlotte Observer reported today that three women died in a horrific car accident on Interstate 85 in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday morning. The accident has devastated a family. The...

Posted by Michael Chandler
March 26, 2008 9:28 AM

The North Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating an automobile accident this morning. The accident occurred on I-485 in Charlotte where 7 people were hospitalized with injuries including an infant. The Charlotte Observer reports all of the injured were ejected from the vehicle with the exception of the infant who was in a car seat.This type of accident highlights the importance of wearing...

Posted by Jenny Albano
March 23, 2008 7:17 PM

A student from West Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina died in a car accident on Mount Holly Road on Friday, March 21.Alicia Davis, 17, was in the backseat of a Nissan 300zx, when the accident occurred. The driver, 20-year-old Jack Smith Jr., was trying to pass another vehicle when he lost control of the car and crossed into oncoming traffic. Once this occurred the Nissan...

Posted by Michael Chandler
January 31, 2008 10:38 AM

According to a police report released on Wednesday, speed was the primary contributing factor in a two vehicle car accident that killed two motorists and injured two others. The accident has received a lot of media attention because two sons of well known drag racer Doug Herbert were killed in the collision. The accident took place on Jetton Road in Cornelius just north of Charlotte, North...

Posted by Michael Chandler
January 21, 2008 9:08 AM

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, one passenger was killed and two others were seriously injured when a car lost control and veered off a North Carolina Interstate Sunday afternoon. The car accident occurred on Interstate 77 North of Charlotte. One of the injured victims, Emily Peralta, 61, who was in intensive care at Carolinas Medical Center late Sunday while another injury...

Posted by Michael Chandler
January 17, 2008 9:08 AM

As a personal injury attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina, I represent hundreds of victims who sustain serious injury on North Carolina roadways each year. Unfortunately one of the hardest aspects of my job is finding insurance coverage to fully compensate the victims. If you want to protect yourself and your loved ones, you need to understand the types of insurance coverage available in...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
January 10, 2008 9:44 PM

The number of uninsured drivers in the state of South Carolina appears to be dropping thanks to new laws enacted in 2002. Analysis of data from car accidents shows that the percentage of illegal drivers dropped from 18 in 2003 to 9 in 2006. But even cutting our uninsured motorists rate in half would only bring us down to the national average. And uninsured motorists cost us all. Not only do...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
October 06, 2007 5:10 PM

A drunk driver hit another car and killed a man and injured a child. The car accident happened in Rowan County on Thursday night. He was driving on Interstate 85 going in the wrong direction at the time of the accident. Troopers say he got onto Interstate 85 at Lane Street in Cabarrus County around 11:30 p.m. Thursday and went the wrong direction. A vehicle going the correct direction...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
September 27, 2007 8:48 PM

Two people are dead and three children are injured after a car accident in Wallace this morning. The victims were from Wadesboro. Someone that lives near the crash scene said that many accidents happen at that intersection. Just before 10:00 Thursday morning, Highway Patrol said the family's minivan collided with a flatbed truck at the intersection of Hwy 9 and 912 near Wallace.Highway...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
September 20, 2007 10:58 AM

A police officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department was involved in a car accident in his cruiser today. He was driving to the scene of another car accident and was attempting to go through an intersection on a red light. The driver of the other car had a revoked license and was driving anyway. Peterson said the officer was traveling on Central Avenue, headed to the accident...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
September 04, 2007 3:03 PM

A 25-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sunday in Annapolis. The victim was from Edgewater. He was driving his motorcycle in a construction zone when the accident happened. The victim tried to merge left from a right-turn-only lane on southbound Route 2 near Forest Drive, swerved back to the right when he saw traffic approaching from behind, and went off the road, past the...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
August 27, 2007 10:06 PM

A man was killed in a single car accident in Charlotte last week. He drove the car into a utility pole and then a building. Rescue teams had to use the Jaws of Life. The victim died at the scene of the accident. It happened off of Old Concord Road in northeast Charlotte.Investigators believe the driver of the car was driving too fast when he hit a sharp curve in the road. That caused the...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
August 14, 2007 10:53 PM

A car accident in Newberry has left an 11-year-old boy dead. The tragic chain of events began when the car he was a passenger in hit the guardrail. His mother was driving the vehicle. Shortly after coming to rest, their vehicle was struck by another vehicle. The mother, in an attempt to get her children to safety, got her children and started for the side of the road, when a pickup truck...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
August 02, 2007 2:17 PM

A woman who had just registered her car in North Carolina got into a fatal car accident last week. The car accident happened on U.S. 58. The driver and five passengers in the car were all killed. It is believed that they were all from New York City. The westbound car crossed a grassy median just after 4 p.m. Tuesday and collided head-on with a truck. Two men in the truck, which was...

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