On January 27, 2014, Douglas Balder, a State Trooper in Illinois, was helping a stalled big-rig on the Ronald Regan Memorial Tolloway. His car was hit by a tractor-trailer whose driver was falling asleep behind the wheel. This is how the Huffington Post described the...
Month: April 2016
Can New Tech Put an End to Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries?
When the average person hears the word “traumatic,” he or she probably conjures up images of devastating injuries – the kinds of injuries that lead to a lifetime on a ventilator, or early onset dementia. In the worst-case scenarios, this can...
Women & Children First: What You Need to Know about the Valley Pike Superfund Site
Bill Mullins, the second-generation owner of Mullins Rubber Products in the Riverside suburb of Dayton, is no stranger to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2004, Mullins and his company paid a total of $500,000 in fines for violating the Clean Air Act; the fines...
The True Cost of Road Construction
Our nation’s infrastructure is in a serious state of disrepair, but fixing our roads and highways incurs costs to drivers above and beyond the taxes they pay. As our population grows, more and more cars are driving on highways and bridges that were never designed to...
Big Rig Driver in Fatal Bell County Crash Is a Repeat Offender
Kentucky State Police responded to a three-vehicle crash in Bell County on the afternoon of March 24. The scene was pure chaos; an overturned pickup truck was leaking gas on to the roadway, a short distance from a nearly unrecognizable Nissan Maxima and a driverless...
18-Wheeler Accident Shuts Down I-80 Interchange; Driver Charged With OVI
An 18-wheeler leaving Truck World in Hubbard closed the I-80/Route 62 interchange overnight on March 24 after the driver struck several utility poles. The downed poles and wires created dangerous conditions that were exacerbated by high winds and heavy rainfall. The...
What Knocked A Car Off The Combs-Hehl Bridge?
The Combs-Hehl Bridge rises over a hundred feet above the Ohio River. The major artery that connects Ohio and Kentucky, the bridge has had its fair share of accidents, but the most recent one was horrifying. A devastating March 15 pileup sent one car plunging into the...
Top NFL Exec Finally Acknowledges Link between Football and CTE
The National Football League’s senior vice president for health and safety, Jeff Miller, appeared before a congressional committee on March 14. During the hearing, Miller made headlines by publicly acknowledging that there is a link between football and the...