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Officials in St. Charles County are working to reduce auto accidents by implementing “Traffic Safe Zones.”

A North St. Louis family is very distressed due to multiplecar accidents happening right in their front yard. The family has reported 8 incidents where cars have ended up in their front yard. Many times, these speeding vehicles have hit their house or a parked car. The North St. Louis family live at the…

A vehicleaccident occurred in Delaware around 1:00 a.m., allegedly involving alcohol and speed. The accident took place when a nineteen-year-old boy was driving, over the speed limit, on U.S. Route 9. While approaching a curve in the road, the driver did not turn his wheel properly in order to stay on the road. As…

The leading cause of death among Americans is that ofauto accidents. According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, traffic accidents are responsible for nearly 37,000 fatalities in the United States each year. The majority of all traffic accidents are preventable, and drivers can avoid a crash by operating their vehicles responsibly. Negligent…

As an elderly couple from New Mexico were traveling through Missouri they were involved in a single-vehicleauto accident that claimed the life of the woman. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the accident happened on Sunday when a 78-year-old man was driving a vehicle on Highway 63 in Howell County and the driver…

Anauto accident involving two vehicles and a bicycle sent six people to the hospital on Monday evening. The accident happened in north St. Louis during the evening rush hour at approximately 5:50 p.m. The St. Louis police stated that a driver was attempting to flee from police making a traffic stop when he collided…

As a woman was traveling to her mother’s funeral, she was killed in a fatalcar accident. The accident happened on Saturday in Utah. According to authorities, the 48-year-old woman was a passenger in a pickup truck when the driver lost control of the vehicle, collided with the median causing the vehicle to overturn multiple…

Authorities in Readington Township, New Jersey have arrested a man for a fatalDUI accident that killed a set of grandparents. The accident happened on Friday at around 2:25 p.m. According to police, a 79-year-old man, his 75-year-old wife, their son and two grandchildren were traveling southbound on Route 523 when a 43-year-old man crossed…

Over the weekend, two police officers were killed in a wrong-wayauto accident in Des Moines, Iowa. The accident occurred at around 12:40 a.m. on Saturday when the officers were traveling eastbound on Intestate 80. The officers were transporting a prisoner in a squad car when a vehicle traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes struck…

According to the Missouri Department of Transportation, the vast majority ofauto accident victims were not properly restrained with safety belts. In fact, MODOT reports that 67.7% of the individuals killed in auto accidents were not using a seat belt during the years of 2011-2013. Individuals that choose not to use a seat belt have…