While home visiting my parents, I saw a recent Reader’s Digest Article. The article points out that more than 5,000 teenagers die in car accidents every year. “If we saw these numbers coming back from a war zone, it would be on the front page every day,” says Vincent Leibell, a state senator from New…
Professors Michael Morrisey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School in a study found that for every 10 percent increase in gas prices there was a 2.3 percent decline in auto deaths. Morrisey expects to see fatalities drop about 1,000 deaths a month as gas prices have risen….
News: Charles F. Benton Jr., an Autauga County man pled guilty Monday to two counts of vehicular homicide after three were left dead in August 2006.
Last night while watching the news, I learned of another tradegy. This one was the untimely death of former Birmingham city councilman Jimmy Blake’s wife, a nurse. According to Fox News, “His wife, Mary Anne, was killed Monday in a car accident on Highway 280. The accident happened by the water plant on 280. Investigators…
Unfortunately, the story has become all too common – the wonderful child who has a drinking or substance abuse problem as shown by this newspaper article in Atlanta. Added to that is that they are behind the wheel of an automobile while drinking or drugging. Note that the talented young woman in the article had…
“In 2005, motor vehicle traffic crashes were the leading cause of death for every age 3 through 6 and 8 through 34.” NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis (DOT HS 810 936 April 2008). Every kind of vehicle wreck can quickly lead to disaster for a family.