Automobile Accidents

• Accident on New Jersey Turnpike Takes Fashion Model's Life

  Ricky Bagolie | August 01, 2006 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Whenever your car breaks down on the road you need to be extra careful. A promising young fashion model was killed last weekend on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to Herald Tribune:She was en route to the airport in a car-service sedan Saturday morning when the vehicle broke down in the center lane of the turnpike, and was rear-ended by another vehicle. The New Jersey State Police confirmed...

• Watch for Trucks on the Road

  Ricky Bagolie | May 20, 2006 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  It does not matter if you live in New Jersey or Florida, motorists need to keep watch for the big rigs that share their roads. Truck accidents are collisions involving large vehicles (gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds). Typically, these include semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, 18-wheelers or other commercial vehicles. Since they are tremendously larger and heavier than...

• 15 Passenger Van Rollover Danger

  Ricky Bagolie | May 13, 2006 9:46 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Asminstration (NHTSA) has reinforced it's warning that 15 passenger vans pose a serious rollover risk. These vans are unstable at high speeds, with more than 10 passengers or with imporoperly inflated tires and are often used to transport church groups, college students and workers.According to NewsInferno.com A new research report confirms that improper tire...

• New Jersey Police Officer Struck By Car

  Ricky Bagolie | April 17, 2006 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Police officers never know when or where an injury will occur. An Englewood, New Jersey police offers was struck by a speeding car and seriously injured as he was placing emergency road flares on Route 4.According to The RecordJason Calle, 21, was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, aggravated assault by an automobile while under the influence and...

• Truck Driver Fatigue Causes Accidents

  Ricky Bagolie | March 24, 2006 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Nearly 375 people were killed and 7,500 others were injured each year between the years 1997 and 2000 as a result of tired truck drivers report the Federal Motor Safety Administration. Greed is often the motavation as the longer truckers can drive the greater the potential revenue and profit for trucking companies. Driver fatigue and drowsiness can result in reckless behavior such as failure to...

• Luke Duke, Of Dukes of Hazzard Fame, Arrested for DWI

  Ricky Bagolie | March 23, 2006 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Actor Tom Wopat, Luke Duke of the television series the Dukes of Hazzard, has been arrested for drunken driving in Ringwood, New Jersey.All Headline News reports:Passaic County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Bill Maer confirms that Wopat, 54, was driving a Ford Bronco when "he struck some orange traffic cones and nearly slammed into a Ringwood police vehicle at the scene of an unrelated...

• Driver On Cell Phone Runs Over Child...Twice

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  A woman on her cell phone twice ran over a 9-year-old boy last week. According to witnesses, the driver of the Lexus SUV didn't even hang up after she first hit the victim. Bystanders knoced on her window to tell her the youth was still under the car, and she backed up only to run over him again. According to NJ.com:The accident occurred Sunday about 6 p.m. on Fulton Avenue near Sterling...