Posts tagged accident

• Dangerously Distracted iPod Drivers

  Frank Ward | October 07, 2008 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For years now people have been discussing the dangers of drivers talking on cell phones. Some state and local governments now require drivers to use hand-free headsets. More recently the perils of...

• Police Investigating Car Accident that Killed 3 Alabama Cheerleaders

  Jenny Albano | December 02, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Police are investigating the cause of a car accident that killed three Alabama high school cheerleaders and injured four in Friday night, November 30.Sarah Casey, 16, Courtney Niceley, 17, and Whitney Bradford, 16, of Warrior, Ala., all died when the car they were in hit a tree and went over an embankment. The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Agee, 17, Brittany Lovejoy, 17, Ariel Nibblet, 17, and...

• Federal Jury gives $3.1 Million in Ambulance Suit

  Tedford Taylor | May 01, 2007 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Madison County federal jury awarded $3.1 million to the family of a woman who was killed in a collision with a speeding ambulance on October 13, 2005. The ambulance was transporting a patient from Fayetteville to Huntsville on a non-emergency basis. The family alleged in their lawsuit that the wrongful death was caused by the carelessness and negligence of the ambulance driver. Judge...

• Fatal Car-Truck Accident Shuts Down I-65

  Tedford Taylor | April 12, 2007 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As of 7:45 this morning, traffic was stopped on southbound I-65 in Cullman as a result of an early morning car accident that claimed the life of at least one person.State troopers said the 2 a.m. accident involved a tractor trailer and a car between mile markers 304 and 308, which are the two exits into Cullman. Southbound traffic is being diverted onto U.S. Troopers expect the southbound lanes...

• Car Crash with a Tractor-Trailer Kills Three Men

  Christina Cole | March 15, 2007 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three men were killed in a tragic car accident today when their car crossed a median and struck a tractor-trailer head-on in a collision on Alabama 20, in Limestone County, police said.The car accident occurred on Wednesday around 5pm between the Mooresville and Greenbrier exits in Limestone County, Huntsville Police spokesperson said.The driver of the car died on impact and two of the car...

• Propane Truck and Train Collide Killing Driver

  Christina Cole | February 21, 2007 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Late Monday, firefighters were still attempting to control the fiery wreckage of a propane delivery truck that collided with a train on Monday in Morgan County. An AmeriGass employee's wife said a company official told her that the body of her husband was found beneath the truck but rescue was not able to get to it. "He's dead, trapped beneath the truck," said his wife through tears. "They will...