Are young drivers reckless? Does more experience – and older age – make a safer driver? People generally have a lot of assumptions about age and how it correlates to driving safety. Many share opinions on teenage drivers, elderly drivers – and virtually every other age group and demographic in between. But what does the…
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Samsung alongside the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling 2.8 million top loading washing machines after reports of about 730 exploding. Many more reportedly fell apart due to excessive vibration, and there have been 9 serious injuries so far as a result. While none of these injures were fatal, they have varied from…
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On November 7, the Texas Department of Transportation marked a “grim milestone”: “At least one person has died each and every day on Texas roads since November 7, 2000.” That is sixteen years, or 5,845 days, without a day where no one has died in a motor vehicle crash in Texas. TxDOT has created an…
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On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, seven people were killed following a fatal explosion and fire at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Springs, Maryland. The incident left an additional twenty-five individuals injured and as many as 150 displaced. Even worse, of the seven people who died, two were children. In the three months following the…
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On October 22, 2015, Andre Smith, then aged 17, suffered a blunt force trauma injury to his head during a football game. He died the next day. His mother has sued the manufacturer of his football helmet and the Chicago Board of Education. Andre was blocked from making a tackle during a high school football…
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A woman who left the scene of a collision which claimed the life of a teenage pedestrian has been arrested and charged with a felony and a misdemeanor. The wreck happened on Monday night in Dayton, Texas. George Hathcoat, just 17 years old, was struck and killed by a car allegedly being driven by Pamela…
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On August 10, 2016, in Silver Springs, Maryland, an apartment fire and explosion resulted in the deaths of seven people. The fire and explosion also injured more than thirty people and displaced more than eighty families. Officials reported that the natural gas explosion occurred in the meter room of the Flower Branch apartment complex. After…
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A man was killed Saturday night after he was hit by a car while trying to cross South Gessner, authorities said. The collision happened just before midnight, the 66-year-old was walking south across the eastbound lanes in the 8600 block when a 29-year-old in a Chevy Malibu crashed into him, a police spokeswoman said Sunday….
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