10 People are Injured and One Woman is Killed in Eastern North Carolina When Church Van and Pickup Truck Collide in Head-On Crash
One person has died and 10 others were injured during a head-on collision involving a Church van and a pickup truck in Eastern North Carolina on Monday.
The church van was going to a Baptist retreat center in Oak Island when the accident took place. The teenage and adult passengers in the van were members of Boonville’s Charity Baptist Church.
Norma Shore, a 60-year-old Boonville resident, is the woman who was killed in the motor vehicle crash. The injury victims were treated at Hoots Memorial Hospital in Yadkinville and at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Dwaine Dobbins, the driver of the pickup truck, was injured.
Head-on collisions can often lead to serious if not fatal injuries. They are motor vehicle accidents where the impact has occurred at the front of the vehicle. A car, truck, or motorcycle can become involved in a frontal impact collision, if it collides from the front with another motor vehicle or a nonmoving object. The speed that the motor vehicle was moving at, whether or not the passengers and driver were wearing seatbelts, whether the car or truck was equipped with working airbags, and the circumstances and severity of the crash are some of the factors that can affect whether or not any personal injuries sustained by accident victims are severe and/or fatal.
Common causes of head-on crashes include:
• A motor vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way road
• A car, truck, or motorcycle trying to overtake another vehicle when there isn’t enough passing space
• The driver of the motor vehicle has lost control of the car, truck, or motorcycle, and ends up crossing over the dividing line on the road and into oncoming traffic
• Speeding
• Following another vehicle too closely
• Not stopping soon enough before colliding into another automobile
• Driving under the influence of alcohol
• A defective motor vehicle
• Careless or negligent driving
Church van wreck kills one, injures at least 10 others, Winston-Salem Journal, August 6, 2007
What factors are associated with head-on crashes?, Austin City Connect
Related Web Resources:
Head-On Collisions, Safety Transportation
If you have been seriously injured in a head-on collisions, or another type of motor vehicle accident caused by someone else’s negligence in North Carolina or South Carolina, the Law Offices of Michael A. DeMayo LLP can help you.
Our personal injury attorneys have successfully handled every kind of personal injury case, and we will be happy to evaluate your case for you, apprise you of your options, and file a claim to help you obtain recovery for your injuries or for the wrongful death of a loved on.
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