Murfreesboro, TN, 6/29/07. Robert Franklin Hankins and Betty Hankins, 68, both of Commerce, GA, were killed when their pickup truck was struck head-on by a semi-truck driven by Arthur Trollinger, a driver for Cooper Mobile Homes in Lewisburg, TN. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, about 12:20 PM the left front tire of the eastbound…
Continue reading ›In yet another crash that highlights the lack of inadequacy of bus safety standards, two people were killed and two critically injured Saturday evening after a small charter bus hit a median wall and utility poles on I-85 southbound between the Monroe Drive and Buford Highway exits. Two occupants were thrown from the bus into…
Continue reading ›6/25/07, Berea, KY. A Tennessee UPS truck driver was killed when at 2:50 AM a tanker truck carrying liquid sulfur, driven by a Georgia truck driver, had a tire blew out, hit concrete median barrier, went airborne and crossed over intooncoming lanes. The tanker hit a UPS tractor trailer head-on. The UPS driver Johnny l.…
Continue reading ›On 6/24/07, a tractor trailer jackknifed on I-20 near Oxford, Alabama, crossed the median, and crashed head-on into a Honda occupied by an assistant football and basketball coach and three team members from North Oconee (GA) High School on the way home from a basketball camp at Jacksonville State University. Coach Shawn Smith was killed. …
Continue reading ›LANCASTER, PA, 6/26/07 – A tractor-trailer driver who did not notice slower-moving traffic in front of her caused the fiery seven-vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed three people from New Jersey. The tractor-trailer hit six passenger cars and then burst into flames, police said. The dead were all in the first car hit,…
Continue reading ›The Center for a Just Society is a conservative outfit that seeks to “advance and defend Judeo-Christian principles of human dignity and social justice in law, policy and the public square.” If you read their web site, it’s clearly a conservative organization. In light of that faith-based conservatism, it is enlightening to read what they…
Continue reading ›Here’s an interesting commentary on the presidential race and one putative Republican candidate who opposes national “tort reform” on the basis of conservative principles: Fred Thompson has not officially entered the race for President of the United States, yet already he is being assailed by Republican bluebloods who want preferential treatment in America’s civil justice…
Continue reading ›A study published yesterday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, reached the conclusion that doctors’ disclosures about themselves fail to either help patients or establish rapport with the patients. Rather, the study showed that many doctors waste patients’ time and lose their focus in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves. The researchers started…
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