Automobile Accidents

• Carroll County Car Accident Leaves Two Injured

  Shannon Weidemann | July 10, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A car and a semi-truck where involved in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 77 in Carroll County. The accident happened on Friday morning and caused many traffic delays. It happened in the southbound lanes at mile marker 20, north of Hillsville. Witnesses told authorities that a car traveling too fast ran up under a tractor trailer. Both vehicles wrecked and caught fire. Both drivers of...

• Criminal Charges Filed in Accident Which Killed Officer

  Dan Frith | October 16, 2008 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  There was a sad story in today's Roanoke Times newspaper. A 25 year old man from Ohio (Brooks Ryan Leisure) has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the traffic accident death of Jason...

• Fire Truck Driver Kills Two in Accident

  Dan Frith | May 28, 2008 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  This is a sad story! Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident which occurred on Monday involving a fire truck driven by Lucas McCulloch, a member of the Eagle Rock Volunteer...

• Eight Year Old Dies in Virginia Automobile Accident

  Dan Frith | May 20, 2008 10:26 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  I was saddened to read the story of an 8 year old boy who died last week in a single car accident in Culpeper, Virginia. Virginia State Police reported that Orion Bickings was riding in a 1999 Acura...

• Car and Semi-Truck in Accident in Roanoke County

  Shannon Weidemann | August 01, 2007 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A semi-truck making an unsafe lane change on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County hit a car. The truck accident was during the evening rush hour and caused a traffic slowdown. The driver of the car was taken to a local hospital to be treated for her injuries. The driver of the truck switched from the right lane to the left lane and, in doing so, struck a 2005 Pontiac Vibe. After striking the...

• You're Not In Good Hands With Allstate

  Staff Writer | February 24, 2006 8:02 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  According to an article published in the July 2005 issue of "The New Mexico Trial Lawyer" Allstate insurance company has devised a plan to increase it profits at the expense of its policyholders and those injured by Allstate insureds. The article entitled "False Promises -- Allstate, McKinsey and the Zero Sum Game" by David J. Berardinelli describes how Allstate has discovered that it can...

• Southwest Virginia Teenager Dies in Auto Accident

  Dan Frith | October 03, 2007 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Why do we see too many teenagers killed on our highways? There cannot be a greater loss than the unnecessary death of a child or young adult...and it has happened again in Southwest Virginia!The Roanoke Times reports today that, LeAndra Milliner, a 16 year old Shawsville girl died Tuesday afternoon, October 2, in a single car accident. LeAndra was a junior at Eastern Montgomery High School...

• Roanoke Car Accident Ends in Misdemeanor

  Shannon Weidemann | May 07, 2007 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A 69-year-old man from Falls Church, Virginia has been charged with misdemeanor death with a motor vehicle following. The charge stems from a car accident in which his 65-year-old wife was killed. He was driving on Interstate 95 when he struck a camping trailer that was on the shoulder of the road. The trooper said he did not believe heavy winds played a factor in the crash. The estimated...

• Breathing Man pronounced dead - incorrectly!

  Lauren Ellerman | January 03, 2008 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Medical Examiner pronounces man dead - except he is not. Charlotte North Carolina - man is in a serious car accident, and county Medical Examiner pronounces him dead. Problem is the man is still alive, and does not receive proper medical care for life threatening injuries.This is almost as odd as something out of a CSI episode - except its true, and someone is now living in a nursing home...

• One Car Accident in Roanoke Kills Passenger

  Shannon Weidemann | April 18, 2007 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A Roanoke County man was killed in a single car accident on Tuesday April 10th. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital to be treated for her injuries. Police say it happened around 10:42 when a car ran the stop sign at Rome Drive and Crumpacker Drive. The car went straight through the intersection, hit an embankment and overturned.Both people in the car were wearing their seatbelts....