- Brett Emison | March 31, 2010 6:02 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsWe reported last week about the tragic semi truck accident that killed 11 people near Cave City, Kentucky.
Now, we have learned that the trucking company involved in that crash had a poor...
- Brett Emison | March 30, 2010 11:25 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA number of sources have reported that government safety regulators have called on scientists from the National Academy of Sciences and NASA to investigate the Toyota sudden acceleration recall as...
- Brett Emison | March 29, 2010 2:17 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA panel of leading experts, including the former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), held a press conference last week to refute Toyota's claims that electronics play...
- Brett Emison | March 29, 2010 11:41 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe Kansas City Star has reported that a one-year-old child was killed when a tractor trailer rig crashed into the vehicle in which the child was riding near Emporia, Kansas.
From the...
- Brett Emison | March 29, 2010 11:23 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Several news outlets, including CNN, Fox News, and several local television stations have reported that a Eurocopter AS350 medical helicopter crashed between Jackson, Tennessee and Brownsville,...
- Brett Emison | March 27, 2010 1:42 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsABC15.com has reported that a fourth person had died from injuries sustained when a dump truck plowed through a group of motorcyclists stopped at a red light. The dump truck driver admitted he was...
- Brett Emison | March 27, 2010 1:22 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsSeveral tractor trailer crashes across the country over just a day or two should serve as a reminder to all drivers -- and especially commercial truck drivers -- to be vigilant about safety. Two of...
- Brett Emison | March 27, 2010 11:29 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsWe reported earlier about a tragic crash in which the driver of a dump truck was doing paperwork while driving and crashed through a group of motorcyclists killing three and injuring six...
- Brett Emison | March 26, 2010 10:38 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsEarlier this today, we reported on a devastating tractor trailer crash that killed eleven people in near Cave City, Kentucky. Now, news sources - including the New York Times, the Associated Press...
- Brett Emison | March 26, 2010 11:39 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Missouri's non-partisan court plan keeps politics and special interests out of Missouri courtrooms. The Missouri Plan is based on the fundamental premise that cases should be decided on the facts...
- Brett Emison | March 26, 2010 11:09 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe Arizona Republic has reported on a deadly commercial truck crash north of Phoenix, AZ that killed 3 motorcyclists and injured 6 others. This in one of several deadly tractor trailer crashes...
- Brett Emison | March 26, 2010 10:46 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsSeveral news outlets, including CNN, WLKY, LEX18, WAVE3, and WKYT and reported that at least 10 people were killed after a tractor trailer crossed the median on I-65 and crashed into a van near...
- Brett Emison | March 26, 2010 10:32 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsEarlier this week, safety experts found a smoking gun Toyota document from 2002 where Toyota identified electronic problems that caused engine surge in its 2002 Camry vehicles. But that wasn't the...
- Brett Emison | March 25, 2010 6:27 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsEarlier this month a Florida appeals court upheld a $33.3 million verdict against Walgreen's on behalf of the family of Beth Hippely, represented by IB member Chris Searcy. Mrs. Hippely died in 2007...
- Brett Emison | March 25, 2010 11:16 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsCNN and other news outlets have reported that an internal Toyota document created in 2002 identified electronic problems as the cause for engine surge in 2002 Toyota Camry models. This smoking gun...
- Brett Emison | March 24, 2010 5:33 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe Denver Post and KUTV have reported that a 50-car wreck on Interstate 80 in Wyoming was caused when a tractor trailer jackknifed and a second semi truck overturned while trying to avoid it. The...
- Brett Emison | March 16, 2010 3:42 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNot only are California prosecutors investigating Toyota's conduct regarding its sudden acceleration problem, Connecticut's Attorney General announced that he will also investigate Toyota's sudden...
- Brett Emison | March 16, 2010 3:26 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota is not the only Japanese car company with braking problems. Now the Associated Press and Sky News have reported that Honda will recall 412,000 Odyssey minivans and Element vehicles due to...
- Brett Emison | March 16, 2010 8:27 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)The Associated Press and tv station KENS have reported that a Houston Metro bus and light rail train crashed, injuring 19 people. This is the second bus/train crash in Houston at the same...
- Brett Emison | March 15, 2010 12:23 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsTelevision channel, WBKO, has reported that at least 10 people were hospitalized in a trucking accident when a semi truck crashed into the back of a Greyhound bus in Simpson County near Bowling...
- Brett Emison | March 13, 2010 10:37 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsNBC News and the Associated Press have reported that chic baby slings will get additional warnings after several infant suffocation deaths.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and...
- Brett Emison | March 13, 2010 10:22 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Detroit Free Press and BBC News have reported that prosecutors in Orange County, California will sue Toyota because Toyota knew about defects in several Toyota model lines, but did not tell...
- Brett Emison | March 12, 2010 5:43 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsNews outlets across the country -- including the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, CNN and NBC News -- have reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife,...
- Brett Emison | March 11, 2010 6:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIn the fallout of Toyota's massive sudden acceleration recall, the Wall Street Journal reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is considering tougher regulations...
- Brett Emison | March 11, 2010 10:11 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter at least 34 Toyota sudden acceleration deaths, attempts to cover up the sudden acceleration problem since 1986, and lie after lie after lie, USA Today has reported that Toyota may face...
- Brett Emison | March 09, 2010 10:23 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsNews sources across the country, including Fox News, the Today Show on NBC and the Los Angeles Times, have reported on a runaway Toyota Prius that was rescued by California Highway Patrol officers...
- Brett Emison | March 08, 2010 4:18 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota executives told Congress in sworn testimony that it gave a consulting company called Exponent an unlimited budget to research electromagnetic sources of Toyota's sudden acceleration problems....
- Brett Emison | March 08, 2010 1:52 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsYou knew it would come to this, didn't you?
Toyota has denied that its electronics contributed to the sudden acceleration problem for years. Since last year, safety experts across the country have...
- Brett Emison | March 06, 2010 7:58 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Several sources, including KMBC-TV, The Topeka Capital Journal, and the Lawrence Journal-World & News, have reported that a 43-year-old Baldwin City woman was hurt badly when her 2004 Ford...
- Brett Emison | March 05, 2010 5:27 PM |
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MiscellaneousSeveral sources, including St. Louis Public Radio, Examiner.com and Talking Points Memo, have reported that a Missouri lawmaker filed a bill to gamble a portion of the Governor's salary each month...
- Brett Emison | March 05, 2010 11:16 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsI've been saying it for months and reported it here again yesterday: Toyota's recall fixes are not working. Now, the post-recall sudden acceleration complaints keep growing.
According to...
- Brett Emison | March 05, 2010 10:33 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)According to reports from CNN and The Wall Street Journal, an air traffic controller and his supervisor at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York allowed the controller's 10-year-old son to send...
- Brett Emison | March 04, 2010 10:31 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsBecause of several serious -- and sometimes deadly -- side effects, thousands of women across the United States have filed lawsuits against the makers of popular birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin and...
- Brett Emison | March 04, 2010 9:44 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota's recall fixes are not working. I have been saying it here for months. Safety expert, Sean Kane has said it. Toyota officials admitted it in sworn testimony. Now, the mainstream media...
- Brett Emison | March 03, 2010 10:46 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhile Toyota has recalled 2007 and newer Camry vehicles because of the sudden acceleration problem, it has not recalled earlier (2002-06) Camry models. Now, the New York Times has confirmed what...
- Brett Emison | March 03, 2010 10:25 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota has recalled more than 10 million vehicles worldwide and sent its president, Akio Toyoda, to testify before the United States Congress.
In the nearly six months since the tragic sudden...
- Brett Emison | March 03, 2010 9:53 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsCNN has reported that General Motors has recalled 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac models because of power steering failures that caused at least 14 crashes and one injury.
From...