Race Against the Odds: Bike Accident Survivor Runs Cincinnati Marathon
A 29-year-old ran along the streets of Greater Cincinnati on Sunday, keeping pace to complete the 14th Annual Flying Pig Marathon in a little over three hours and coming in fourth among all women runners. 18-months-earlier she was lying in the same streets with a cracked jaw, broken clavicle and sternum, bruised lungs and heart, and a devastating head injury that lead to a near fatal aneurysm. Sunday’s marathon wasn’t her first (she won the Flying Pig in 2005), but considering her condition a year and a half earlier, running it was an amazing feat of self-determination. On a sunny day in...
continue readingCincinnati Woman Gets Voice Back 30 Years After Car Accident
A 52-year-old Cincinnati, OH woman has amazingly regained her voice after losing it in a car accident over 35 years ago. The Ohio woman was only 17-years-old when she was traveling in a car that smashed into a telephone pole. She was violently flung forward in the collision, smashing her throat against the dashboard. Her larynx was crushed and her neck was broken in four places. Not long after the wreck, she was married and for almost four decades has not been able to physically speak with her husband. ‘Most of my family has never really heard my original voice apart from my mother,’ the...
continue readingOhio Woman Struck and Killed by Police Cruiser
An Ohio woman was killed after she was struck by a police cruiser early Thursday morning in Dayton. The cruiser, driven by a 32-year-old deputy, was traveling westbound on Needmore Road when he hit the 43-year-old Dayton woman. A sergeant from the Ohio State Highway Patrol has stated, ‘It would have been the same thing if anybody would have been driving – not necessarily just a deputy. It’s a dark intersection, the roadway is dark there’s no real businesses here that light up the area, and I think this would’ve happened to anybody. It just so happens it happened to a...
continue readingMotorcycle Collides with Semi in Florence
A motorcyclist was killed after a devastating collision with a tractor trailer in Florence, Ky. The motorcycle crash happened on southbound I-71/75 around 7:30pm Sunday evening. According to Florence police a 62-year-old riding a Harley clipped the left rear tire of a semi while attempting to switch lanes. It caused him to lose control of his bike and wreck near the Burlington Pike exit. The accident shut down three lanes of the highway Sunday night for several hours while emergency crews responded. Police are still investigating the accident to find out whether or not alcohol was a factor in...
continue readingDriver Fatigue Leads to Truck Accidents in Ohio
New Regulations Aim to Keep Roads Safer Semi-trucks are a constant on Ohio highways. Unfortunately, so are big truck accidents. Drivers are often under incredible pressure to deliver freight on time. That means pushing the limits as to how much time they spend on the road and how little time they spend resting. This leads to 80,000lb trucks barreling across cities like Cincinnati with exhausted drivers behind the wheel. Fatigue can have a devastating effect on a driver’s judgment. It can slow their reaction time and dull their vision, making them much more susceptible to accidents. These...
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