| Tree collisions in each crash!!! | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:54:35 PM by Blog 57 team | 
Did you know that -
- About 8,000 crash deaths and more than 1 million crash injuries occur each year on urban and suburban roads?
- Three out of four crashes happen within 25 miles of home, at speeds of 45 miles per hour or less.
- About 40% of all fatal crashes occur on roads where the posted speed limit is 30 miles per hour or less.
The reason is simple – urban roads weren't built to accommodate today's heavy traffic. They evolved as traffic has increased, but often not in the best way.
In most case the solution is also simple and doesn’t have to involve major and expensive re-engineering, as many think. A lot of the accidents happen in certain places and can be foreseen. There are simple and cheap measures that can be taken to fix those specific locations.
We drivers are helpless and depended on the authorities’ priorities and budgets. Is there anything we can do to avoid crashes, death and injuries?
It seems like the only thing we can do is to try to avoid it by better understand the crashing process, becoming aware of its tragic consequences, and do our best to drive safe.
In each car crash there are actually three collisions?
- The car's collision - At 30 mph, a car hitting an object that is not moving will crease in about two feet. As the car crushes, it absorbs some of the force of the collision. In a 30 mph crash, a 15 pound child can generate an impact force greater than 300 pounds!
- The human collision - At the moment of impact, passengers in the car are still traveling at the vehicles original speed. When the car comes to a complete stop the passengers are thrown forward until they come in contact with some part of the automobile. Humans in a crash can also cause serious injuries to other humans when they collide with each other. People in the front seat of a car are often hit by rear-seat passengers as they fly forward with incredible force.
- The human body's collision - Even after the human body comes to a complete stop, its internal organs are still moving. Suddenly, these internal organs slam into other organs or the skeletal system. This "internal collision" is what often causes serious injury or death. (A brain concussion or brain damage is one example).
How can we prevent serious injuries in a crash?Our best advice is that you don't give up wearing your safety belt. Whether you are sitting in front or in the back of the car - this is a must. It's been proven to work in the crash test lab and outside on the road. Over the past decade 62,000 lives have been saved and over a million injuries prevented by seat belts. ... | |
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| | | Police seek driver in single-car crash | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:49:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Police are still searching for the driver behind a single-car crash early Friday morning that blocked traffic on Route 41, Kings Highway, for 5 1/2 hours. A Chevrolet Blazer with a Pennsylvania license plate was traveling south on Kings Highway near Brookdale Drive at about 3 a.m. when it hit the concrete barrier. The vehicle rode up over the barrier, flipped and came to rest in road's northbound lanes, Lt. William Kushina of the Cherry Hill Police Department said. No driver could be located when police arrived. send a letter to the editor. .... | |
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| | | Youth arrested over fatal car crash | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:51:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | A 17-year-old youth has been arrested in connection with a car crash in which four teenage girls died. The youth, from the Ebbw Vale area, in south Wales, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He is currently being interviewed by Dyfed Powys Police. Danielle Caswell and Katie Roberts, both 15, and 16-year-olds Louise Jones and Kayleigh Parry all died at the scene of the accident on a mountain road near Ebbw Vale on Thursday night last week. The four close friends lived in the area and were all studying for their GCSEs at Glyncoed Comprehensive School in the town. .... | |
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| | | College Students Hurt In Car Crash | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:52:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two Slippery Rock University students were injured in a car crash in Butler County late Saturday night. State police said the driver, 20-year-old Sarah Ross, was speeding and could not negotiate a left curve on Route 173 near Slippery Rock Creek. The Ford Escape that Ross was driving went off the road, spun around and struck a utility pole before slamming into a tree, police said. .... | |
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| | | SPEED Touring Car Driver DeCastro, Family Perish In Plane Crash | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:50:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. (Oct. 27, 2006) - SCCA Pro Racing SPEED Touring Car driver Lucho DeCastro (44), his wife and two children were killed in a private plane crash Wednesday in northwestern Arizona, the Associated Press reported Thursday. According to the AP report, Ian Gregor, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the single-engine plane crashed about noon Wednesday about 60 miles east of Las Vegas after its pilot reported icing on the plane's wings. Search crews from the Mohave County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office spotted the wreckage from a helicopter about 15 miles northeast of Pierce Ferry Airport Wednesday afternoon and saw three bodies. Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan said search and rescue personnel crossing rugged terrain got close to the site late Wednesday but camped out overnight before continuing on after daybreak.... | |
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| | | Marrero woman dies in car crash | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:50:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Marrero woman was killed Sunday in a one-car crash in Boutte in St. Charles Parish, but a 4-year-old passenger survived, State Police said. Casandra K. Lomax, 39, was driving west on U.S. 90 about 12:50 p.m. when her 1999 Chevrolet Camaro veered right and hit two trees near the freshwater diversion. Lomax, who was not wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected. She was pronounced dead at the scene, at Mile 248.1, Trooper First Class Joseph Piglia said. He said the front-seat passenger, a 4-year-old girl, was ejected in her child safety seat but suffered only minor injuries. Her name was withheld because she is a juvenile. Police said speed was not a factor, but it was unknown whether driver impairment played a role in the crash.... | |
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| | | Brighton teen killed in car crash | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:48:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | COMMERCE CITY — A 2006 Brighton High School graduate was killed last week in car accident on Tower Road. Police say Jessica Alicea, 18, of Brighton, was a passenger in a blue sedan that crossed into oncoming traffic Oct. 10 in the 9500 block of Tower Road and was struck head-on by a white van. Alicea, who had most recently worked as a baker at Daylight Donuts in Brighton, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of vehicle, Kenneth Gildow, 19, also of Brighton, was taken to Denver Health Medical Center in critical condition. Neither was wearing seatbelts. Police do not believe drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash. The driver and passenger of the van were wearing seatbelts and were not injured. .... | |
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| | | Woman dies in single car crash | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:48:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Greenville woman died Wednesday morning in a single-car crash on U.S. Route 36, the Darke County Sheriff's Office reported. Stacy Freshour, 20, died at the scene of the 5:58 a.m. crash, deputies said. She was eastbound on U.S. 36 when her car went off the right side of the road and hit a tree. The crash remains under investigation. .... | |
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| | | Two Ohio State Troopers and Motorist Killed in Car Crash | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:48:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | GALLIPOLIS, OHIO (AP) -- The investigation of a crash that killed three people, including two State Highway Patrol officers, has been difficult because of a lack of witnesses and the fire that destroyed the two vehicles involved, authorities said. The crash Thursday left the troopers' patrol car and a pickup driven by a Vinton woman charred and mangled. The patrol didn't release details about how the crash happened. A man who made an emergency call to authorities from the scene said he couldn't get close enough to help the victims, at least one of whom he said was trapped in the flames. Firefighters arrived to find the two vehicles on fire at the side of the road and the victims inside, Gallipolis Fire Chief Robert Poling said. "It looked like a bonfire sitting there," he said.... | |
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| | | Two killed in three-car crash | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:48:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | MONROE, N.Y. Two people were killed and a baby was injured in a three-car crash this afternoon in Orange County. The accident happened at 1:30 on Route 17 near Monroe, about 50 miles north of New York City. Police say a maroon S-U-V veered across the median and struck a white Chevy Malibu sedan almost head-on. The sedan spun around and was struck by a red pickup truck. A man and woman in the Malibu were killed, and a six-month-old baby in a car seat was taken by helicopter to Westchester Medical Center. The man driving the S-U-V and two passengers, described as in their teens or early 20s, were taken by ambulance to Orange Regional Medical Center. Their conditions were not immediately known. The pickup truck driver was said to have minor injuries. The crash was the latest in a rash of holiday weekend wrecks in the Hudson Valley.... | |
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| | | Jesse Bethel teen dies in single-car crash | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:48:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Jesse Bethel High School student died and three of his schoolmates were injured early Tuesday morning in a single-car crash on Fairgrounds Drive, fire and police officials said. The four Bethel teenagers were driving north on Fairgrounds Drive from Redwood Street in a 1994 Ford Taurus at about 2:30 a.m. when their car crashed through a chain-link fence and struck a tree, police said. Three of the teens were taken to Walnut Creek's John Muir Medical Center, where front-seat passenger Marshall Tobin, 16, died. The fourth was taken to Kaiser Medical Center in Vallejo. The driver, 18-year-old Reginald Liggins, was in fair condition Tuesday after undergoing surgery at John Muir, a hospital spokeswoman said. The names of two other 15-year-old male student passengers were not released.... | |
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