January 29, 2008

A 21-year-old died Tuesday morning in a North Carolina auto accident, according to the News-Record.

Just after 2 a.m., the North Carolina car accident victim crossed the center line of the road, rolled, and slammed into trees. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the auto accident.

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January 25, 2008

The Rocky Mount Telegram reported that a man died Thursday morning from North Carolina fire and burn injuries when his home caught fire.

The 77-year-old North Carolina burn injury victim was apparently asleep when the fire was reported around 2 a.m. by his neighbors. Several attempts were made to rescue the man but the smoke and fire were too forceful for firefighters to enter his room.

Firefighters speculated that the fire may have started in the kitchen of the fire and burn injury victim’s one-storey home.

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January 22, 2008

The News & Observer reported that a man was hospitalized with North Carolina fire and burn injuries Sunday morning when his home was burnt down.

The North Carolina fire and burn injury victim suffered severe burns in the fire accident, but his pregnant wife was out of town at the time of the incident.

A fund has been established to help the burn injury victim and his family. Their entire home was destroyed in the blaze and the victim’s wife is seven months pregnant.

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January 18, 2008

The News-Record reported that the man responsible for killing a 14-year-old boy in a Virginia auto accident Friday has been found. The man was in jail for stabbing another man in the neck just a day after the hit-and-run accident.

The Virginia car accident victim was walking with a friend around midnight when the driver jumped the curb in his pickup truck, striking and killing the young man and then leaving the scene.

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January 15, 2008

In an effort to protect highways from damages and deter North Carolina truck accidents, the highway patrol has stepped up its enforcement of restrictions for overweight truck drivers, according to The News & Observer.

Six lawsuits have been filed against the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety by trucking companies who are dissatisfied with the steep fines, which can reach up to $25,000.

Troopers are standing by their judgment, saying they aren’t concerned with the amount of money the tickets generate, but instead want to make the roads safer from North Carolina auto accidents. Officials said most of the tickets are given to out-of-state drivers who aren’t as familiar with the laws of the state as those who are from North Carolina.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/growth/traffic/trucks/story/880991.html

January 11, 2008

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported a North Carolina wrongful death that state labor investigators are still looking into. A man was impaled Monday after a slip and fall accident from a billboard.

The outdoor worker died after falling 10 and one half feet from the platform where he was impaled through the back and chest by a 46-inch-tall, 3-inch-wide buried cable marker, according to witnesses

Officials said the North Carolina wrongful death victim was wearing a safety belt without a lanyard.

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http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880109130