Automobile Accidents

• Iowa: It’s not always the young who are distracted while driving.

  Steve Lombardi | June 15, 2009 10:43 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  In this crash we have two cars entering the same intersection at once. The northbound vehicle has to stop and yield, but doesn’t. It enters the intersection striking the westbound car and is...

• Iowa's smallest rural pedestrians are at risk of being run over

  Steve Lombardi | June 05, 2009 10:05 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  The day before yesterday I reported on an infant pedestrian accident. Since then more details were disclosed in the Iowa State Trooper report of this accident. Apparently the mother was at the...

• Pedestrian accidents are caused by driver's being distracted

  Steve Lombardi | June 03, 2009 9:46 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  I'm going to continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my in box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the...

• Another Des Moines Pedestrian Accident; this one at Court and Second Avenues

  Steve Lombardi | May 11, 2009 11:56 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Another pedestrian was struck by a car and injured in Des Moines. This car-pedestrian collision occurred at the intersection of Second Avenue and Court Avenue at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2009....

• NEGLIGENCE: Assumptions about the most obvious fact can kill your case.

  Steve Lombardi | April 20, 2009 11:25 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  WARNING: What’s staring you in the face may not be the negligent act. In this Iowa accident a toddler-passenger in a car the mother was driving was killed as the car was t-boned by another...

• Negligence can be attempting to pass at the cress of a hill.

  Steve Lombardi | April 10, 2009 11:51 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  A head on collision Monday April 6th led to the death of Patricia Ann Davis and Howard Jay Davis. Patricia was heading Westbound on 270th when she collided head on with a vehicle driven by Jonathan...

• Driving Safety: How just one drunk driver can alter the lives of hundreds

  Megan Roth | February 13, 2009 12:25 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  I told you yesterday – drinking and driving often results in accidents, and those are never a fun situation. We gave you a brief breakdown of Wisconsin’s drunk driving statistics and...

• Driving Safety: "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"

  Megan Roth | February 07, 2009 10:20 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  After reading Thursday's post, you now know two things: 1) you know about my first car accident and 2) you know the dangers of PEDOs. We told your what happens when pavement edges slant more than...

• Driving Safety: The Dangers of Shoulder Drop-offs

  Megan Roth | February 04, 2009 1:35 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  As mentioned in yesterday’s article, I had my first car accident (yes, first – reckless driving, ignorance and a sense of immortality led me to have several) when I was just 16-years...

• Driving Safety: Auto fatalities dropping, but we can do better. "Yes, we can."

  Megan Roth | February 02, 2009 10:55 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Welcome to the month of February, which is driving safety month on InjuryBoard! Ooh – this is good for me – I could use a lesson or two (my track record isn’t the...