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While rare compared to other types of motor-vehicle crashes, aircraft accidents do happen regularly, usually with devastating results. Despite significant safety improvements over the past decades, many people each year experience the pain of losing someone in an airplane crash.
Yesterday morning in Fayette County, in a scene that is shockingly not from a Japanese game show, a giant spool of wire fell off a truck and began rolling down Route 40. Motorists on the highway near Uniontown pulled off to the shoulder in what appears to be calm fashion, although we can't hear the terrifiend screams of people inside the cars, so we can't know for sure.
Motor vehicle accidents are an hourly occurrence in Clarksburg, Weston, and across Harrison County and Lewis County. Many crashes are completely avoidable, caused by drunk drivers or distracted drivers. Whatever the cause, car accidents are a major safety and economic issue for the communities in this region.
Motorcycle accidents are a common occurrence in the Clarksburg and Weston region. These areas are popular with motorcyclists, and with so many bikes on the roads, the number of collisions is high, and motorcycle accidents are a major safety and economic issue for riders in the Clarksburg and Weston communities.
Truckers are a growing motorist group using West Virginia’s highways, and commercial trucking accidents occur regularly in the Clarksburg and Weston regions. When a truck crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.
Common causes of commercial truck accidents in Clarksburg and Weston
According to IIHS, a large percentage of trucking crashes are caused by:
As mass transit systems grow across West Virginia, bus accidents occur regularly. When a bus crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.
Common types of bus accidents in Clarksburg and Weston
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, over the past 10 years:
The number of buses involved in fatal crashes decreased from 274 to 251, an 8% drop;
At one point or another, everyone is a pedestrian. As the expense of driving and insuring a vehicle rise, more and more people choose to walk to their destinations. As the number of pedestrians increases, so do the number of pedestrian accidents. To see where the Clarksburg and Weston regions rank in terms of pedestrian collisions nationally, please go to this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.
When you're a new mom or dad, buying a car seat for your baby is a Big Deal. When you read and write about fatal car crashes all day long, buying a child safety car seat is an Existential Crisis. But, you'll be glad to know that I survived my quest to find a seat I feel great about putting my toddler in. In the interest of saving you some time and anguish, I will now reveal Accident Data Center's favorite child safety car seat on the market. Now you can have the benefit of research from a highly paranoid safety writer without having to log thousands of incidents of death and loss. Yay?
(Photo: Dodge County Sheriff's Office)
The scene was grim. The Wisconsin highway was covered in a thick, dark red substance as far as the eye could see. The air was thick with the smell of...um...Skittles. It was Skittles. WTF.
The size and speed of trains brings death and destruction to anyone and anything in their path. The main forms of train accidents are train derailments, train and pedestrian accidents, and train and car accidents.
To learn about train accidents in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, go to the Federal Railroad Administration site.