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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 Paducah, Cape Girardeau, and Harrisburg regions rank in terms of pedestrian collisions, please go to this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.
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.
When Mark Ross found out his teenage sister, 15-year-old Eliza Fletcher, had been killed in car crash, he wanted to be with his mother as soon as possible.
But without a vehicle, Ross needed a ride from where he was in Indiana back to Detroit. After convincing a friend to drive, they took off just after 3 a.m. Sunday. According to a Facebook post Ross wrote, they were speeding through Ohio when red and blue lights flashed behind them.
In a classic tale of vengeance, a New Jersey deer refused to take being hit by a car lying down.
On the night of September 17th, 43-year-old Ellen Sager was driving down Oak Glen Road in Howell Township when she struck a deer with her SUV. A Howell police officer on his way to a call happened to be driving behind Sager when he witnessed the crash and pulled over, capturing the bizarre encounter that happened next on his dashcam.
Some rich people are so bad at being rich.
According to the Orange County Register, on September 27th, 22-year-old Laguna Beach resident Aya Ibish posted a photo to her Instagram account of her "pride and joy," a brand-new Mercedes-Benz, all wrapped up in a bow. Then, even though one would suspect she could afford to take a cab, Ibish apparently went out drinking in her new car.
According to a new study, Interstate 4 is the most dangerous highway in the United States.
Hey, it happens to the best of us. By which I mean worst of us, we're living in a nightmare, never leave your house if you want to be safe.
Is it too late to cancel your travel plans?
Thanksgiving is the most-traveled holiday in the United States, and this year the number of people traveling for their turkey dinner is expected to top 48 million. Thanks to low fuel prices, more Americans are hitting the road than any year since 2007.