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Fracture injuries in Charlottesville, Virginia, often result from vehicle accidents, where the impact can cause significant trauma to bones. In car crashes, the force exerted on the body can lead to fractures in areas such as the arms, legs, ribs, or even the spine, especially in high-speed collisions. Motorcyclists and bicyclists are particularly vulnerable to fractures because they have less protection, and the impact of a collision with a larger vehicle or being thrown onto the road can lead to broken bones.

Truckers are a growing motorist group using South Carolina’s highways, and commercial trucking accidents occur regularly in the Myrtle Beach and Florence region. When a truck crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.

Common causes of commercial truck accidents in Myrtle Beach and Florence

According to IIHS, a large percentage of trucking crashes are caused by:

Date: 
Thursday, June 29, 1967
In Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club, Mansfield stayed at the Cabana Courtyard Apartments near the club. After an evening appearance on June 28, 1967, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, their driver, Ronnie Harrison, with three of her children – Miklós, Zoltán and Mariska – set out in Stevens' 1966 Buick Electra 225. They were headed for New Orleans, where Mansfield was scheduled to appear for an early-morning television interview. On June 29 at approximately 2:25am, on U.S.
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Friday, September 30, 1955
At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection. The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but mostly uninjured; Dean’s passenger, German Porsche mechanic Rolf Wütherich was badly injured but survived.