New information in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine offers convincing evidence that the combined use of seat belts and air bags is the best protection that auto accident victims can have from sustaining spine fractures. The findings are based on an examination of over 20,000…
Students and workers on Massachusetts Avenue are complaining that the street is a danger zone for pedestrians. Aggressive drivers, multiple buses, motorcyclists weaving through traffic, speeding ambulances, faulty walk signals, and pedestrians talking on cell phones are some of the reasons they cite for why so many pedestrian accidents keep…
In Massachusetts, the 59-year old crossing guard who was struck by a car as she helped a 10-year-old across a Dorchester street has died. Marie Conley passed away one week after the October 21 pedestrian accident that took place outside Mathers Elementary School. The pedestrian accident took place in the…
In Westfield, a mother and her nine-year-old son died on Halloween Night when they were struck by a car while trick-or-treating. Roberta A. Salois, 47, and Steven X. Smith-Salois were crossing the street when the deadly Massachusetts motor vehicle crash happened on South Maple Street, which is also called Route…
Out of the 417 Massachusetts traffic deaths in 2007, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that 61 of those fatalities were pedestrians. Nationally in the US, there were 4,654 pedestrian deaths last year, with one pedestrian dying every 13 minutes. 2007’s national total is a 13% decrease from 10…
This month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its 2007 Annual Assessment of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Fatalities and People Injured data. Statistics for last year indicate a 3.9% percent decrease in traffic accident fatalities between 2006 and 2007. Overall traffic accident deaths for 2007 was 41,059, down from…
In Massachusetts, Michael Faria, the man charged in connection with a fatal hit and run accident in Easton on Saturday may have been text-messaging when the accident occurred. According to a Bristol County prosecutor, Faria told a friend that he was texting on his cell phone when his car struck…
A woman who has been charged in the motor vehicle homicide death of a female pedestrian she accidentally struck outside a car wash in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is now the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Roger Young, the husband of Robin Young, who was killed…
Approximately 87,000 Massachusetts drivers have been in at least two motor vehicle accidents from 2002 through June 2007. 8,400 of these drivers have been in three crashes. Some 1,100 were in four auto collisions. Some 220 people have been in at least five accidents. Yet a number of these drivers…
8-Year-old Brittany Noel suffered internal injuries and a fractured skull after being struck by an SUV in the schoolyard at E.G. Lyons Elementary School in Randolph, Massachusetts on Tuesday. She was placed in a medically induced coma at Boston Medical Center last night. The man driving the 2001 Ford Escape…