Year: 2012

Traffic rules are designed to protect drivers from accidents and injuries while traveling in their vehicles. By making their best effort to follow these rules, drivers significantly reduce the risk of inflicting harm on fellow motorists. However, not all drivers...

Anytime drivers hit the road, they assume a certain amount of risk. That fact, however, does not preclude other drivers from exercising a reasonable standard of care and caution to protect the health and safety of their passengers or others on the road. The necessity...

When getting behind the wheel of a car, drivers assume a responsibility for others on the road, as well as any passengers in their vehicle. When poor choices are made, accidents can occur that have irrevocable consequences. Police believe this scenario played out in...

Authorities are still investigating the details of a head-on collision which killed a deputy police sheriff. The car crash occurred when a 23-year-old woman was driving her car on the wrong side of a Georgia Interstate highway not long ago. The 32-year-old deputy...

Three horses died as a result of a car wreck in northern Georgia last month. Two of the horses were owned by a Georgia resident who had been training to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic equestrian team. The other horse killed in the car accident was owned by another...

One teen is dead after her father crashed his car in a suspected drunk driving incident. Earlier this month, four children and their father were involved in a tragic car accident on a Georgia freeway. The father was driving his children on a U.S. highway when he...

A recent collision caused one of the two vehicles involved to overturn on the highway. At least one person was transported to the hospital to tend to injuries sustained in the car accident on the Georgia state highway. However, the extent of the person's injuries has...

Georgia parents take care to ensure the safety of their children. When children are at school, parents want to feel secure that their kids will be well taken care of. However, one Saturday last month, a quick series of terrifying chain-reaction bus accidents occurred....

Recently, a father and son were involved in a fatal motorcycle accident in a town located south of Dalton, Georgia. The men were riding their Harley-Davidson motorcycles down a local road in Rome when they encountered a car backing out of a driveway into the road. The...

Police officers endanger their lives on a daily basis. What's more, they do it for the greater good. Sometimes however, their dedication to public safety results in tragedy. Not long ago, a Georgia police officer was injured as he became the victim of a hit-and-run...