Year: 2014

Mercedes-Benz unveiled a semi-truck called the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025. Incredibly, it drives itself on the highway. The self-driving truck’s technology could eventually help decrease the number of highway accidents that kill thousands of people each year. The Future Truck 2025 uses a combination of advanced dual cameras, radar sensors, and blind-spot technology to analyze […]

A woman was killed in a crash in Everett, Washington. Jourdan Bradley, 24, was allegedly racing her Corvette in the northbound lanes of I-5 at the time of the accident. According to KiroTV (10.10.14), witnesses saw a white Chevy SUV or pickup with a canopy racing her before the crash. The Corvette hit a tree and split […]

Attorney at Law David Perecman believes police departments need to hold officers more accountable for treating racial groups equally. Apparently, the New York Police Department needs to continue making changes to ensure blacks have equal rights with whites. According to New York Magazine (10.1.14), a police cruiser tried to get a group of black teenagers to leave […]

A wine specialist died after she was overcome by fumes at an industrial cellar. She lost her balance and fell into a giant vat of wine. Nerea Perez, 25, fell into the vat while she was watching the fermenting process at the cellar in Salas de los Barrios, Spain. An emergency crew rushed to the […]

Pennsylvania Senator Jim Ferlo formally told the world that he was gay while speaking at a rally in support of changing the state’s hate crime law. Ferlo and Representative Brian Sims of Philadelphia, who is also a member of the LGBT community, were speaking in Harrisburg to help push support for Senate Bill 42 and […]

One of the most dangerous pieces of equipment that a worker can use is a wood chipper. A tree trimmer died on the job when he somehow fell head first into a wood chipper in Chandler, Arizona. The worker was decapitated by the machine. The wood chipper contractor was using a standard pull-behind wood chipper, […]

The Lamborghini Huracán is a sleekly styled sports car that sells for around $240,000. Powerful and fast, it can reach 60 mph in approximately three seconds and can exceed 200 mph. The car made its world debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show and the first cars began reaching customers in the spring. In September […]

A British mother released the helmet cam video of her son’s fatal motorcycle crash in an effort to get motorcyclists to slow down and get drivers to think about motorcycles on the road. The video shows rider David Holmes, 38, traveling at close to 100 mph when he crashes into a car that crosses in […]

As students go back to school, an article from FOX News (9.1.14) reminds drivers to slow down and watch out for school buses and kids. Said one driver, “drivers and buses have to work together to keep kids safe.” Each year more than a hundred children are killed and thousands are injured in accidents that […]

A New York teenager died after crashing a family friend’s Lamborghini into a guardrail while he was taking it for a test drive. According to FOX News (8.30.14), 18-year-old Samuel Shepard was driving on a county road on Long Island when he lost control of the high-powered sports car. Excessive speed was thought to be a factor […]