Posts tagged Car Accidents

• Driver Distraction Laws(2)

  Will Parker | July 05, 2007 4:03 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While a number of states have passed laws forbidding drivers from using their cell phones while driving, some states are trying to go a step further, by enacting driver distraction laws. Lawmakers in a dozen states are trying to ban drivers from using video games, computers and fax machines in cars in a new wave of driver-distraction legislation. Since January, states including Texas, New York...

• Officer Involved in Wreck, Fell Asleep at the Wheel

  Christina Cole | April 04, 2007 8:26 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The S.C. Highway Patrol has concluded, a Columbia police officer involved in a February car crash that killed two police horses, had fallen asleep at the wheel.On February 8, the Officer was traveling in his Chevy pickup truck towing a horse trailer on his way to the department's stable, when his pickup drifted onto the right shoulder crashing into a pine tree.The officer was trapped inside the...