Category: Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents

Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic gold medal decathlete who is even more famous for fathering Kendall and Kylie Jenner and step-fathering the Kardashian clan, was involved in a fatal car accident in California over the weekend. According to CNN, the four-car accident took place on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu around noon Saturday when…

Even though highway fatalities have fallen by close to 25 percent over the past 10 years, there are still far too many lives lost and families torn apart by fatal motor vehicle accidents. For that reason, safety advocates are still encouraging states to do more to bolster their traffic laws. The Washington D.C.-based Advocates for…

If you are like many people in the Sacramento area, you will be spending Sunday watching the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 49. But if you plan on watching the game at someplace other than your own home, or you venture out after the game, be on the lookout…

Although traffic is sparse, the roads are frequented by farm workers, like the ones who were killed in the crash earlier this month. In order to help keep these workers safe, the California Highway Patrol launched a program more than 10 years ago called the Safety and Farm Labor Vehicle Education Program. Under the program,…

Sacramento Police say they think drugs or alcohol may have played a role in a wrong way accident on eastbound Interstate 80 that left three people dead early Saturday morning. The tragedy occurred when a 24-year-old Roseville man was traveling the wrong way on I-80 around 2:10 a.m. and crashed into another vehicle head-on. Police…

Most Bay Area residents have driven across the Golden Gate Bridge at least once in their lives, and for some the experience was terrifying, especially if they found themselves in the middle “suicide lanes.” Until recently, the middle lanes on the 1.7-mile long bridge were only separated by small, plastic pylons, which made head-on collisions…

Although we have just entered 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just released statistics on the fatal car accidents that occurred in the United States in 2013. According to the new data, highway deaths decreased by 3.1 percent in 2013 from the year before. What’s even more remarkable is that the data…

Welcome back to our third and final post on truck underride accidents this week. As we stated previously, truck underride accidents have been a major problem on American roads for several decades, though it is a problem that has largely been ignored by regulators. However, one woman — with the help of social media —…

Welcome back. This week we are discussing truck underride accidents on our blog. As we stated in our last post, truck underride accidents have been going on for decades, but the issue seldom gains national attention. In fact, the last time truck underride accidents were in the national spotlight was in 1967 when actress Jayne…

If you have ever been driving behind a tractor trailer you may have noticed two vertical steel bars that extend from the fame of the truck and connect with a horizontal steel bar. This feature is known as an underride guard and has been required on the backs of most large trucks and trailers since…