Automobile Accidents

• Fatal Choice; Texting While Driving

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 27, 2009 8:03 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Fatal choice; Texting While Driving A Eureka, Illinois teen was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Alyssa Burns, 17 years old, was cresting a hill on County Road 800...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Walking along the Interstate

  Steve Lombardi | June 26, 2009 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Fort Lauderdale, Florida – January 2009 – From Chalik & Chalik along with the Sun Sentinel we bring you this January 22, 2009 report of pedestrian mayhem in the sunny state of Minnie...

• Key2SafeDriving: New Device Jams Cell Phone Use While Driving

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 25, 2009 2:23 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Key2SafeDriving New Device Jams Cell Phone Use While Driving Researchers at the University of Utah have developed an ignition key that prevents teenagers (or anyone else) from talking or...

• Driving While Intexticated

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 24, 2009 3:54 PM | 5 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Des Moines/West Des Moines Parents…..Teenagers Driving while Intexticated Where are they learning this? Example maybe? Are you thinking, “Not my...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup, Continues with a backing over accident

  Steve Lombardi | June 23, 2009 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my box for months. There are so many of them just since the first of the year. You can...

• FedEx truck rear ended

  Steve Lombardi | June 19, 2009 9:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  FedEx truck driver, Darwin Happel, was rear-ended and goes to Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, Iowa for treatment. The one who came from the rear, Gregory Asche of Parkersburg wasn’t hurt.

• Get off the cell phone while driving!! You almost hit a boy on a bike!

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 18, 2009 8:01 PM | 4 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Get off the cell phone while driving!! You almost hit a boy on a bike! As I was exiting Interstate 235 in West Des Moines at approximately 2:45 p.m. today (June 18, 2009), I was waiting to turn...

• O'Connell, an Irish family, is devasted after van crash in Iowa. (Updated 06/21/2009)

  Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 3:48 PM | 17 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This is one of those accidents I hate writing about but without this posting the relatives and friends back in Ireland may wonder about how to obtain information concerning the O'Connell family. I...

• Woman saves toddler by pushing it out of the way, then is stuck underneath car as it rolls over her.

  Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  We've been talking about pedestrian safety. I've not finished yet with all the mail box news alerts and already they are coming in with new alerts. In this one we have a 5 to 6 year-old and a 23...

• Unusual weekend as seven die in five separate crashes across Iowa

  Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 7:46 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The news always refers to them as “road fatalities” but really they are car crashes of various natures, some have to do with the road and others don’t. They do start off on the...