A garbage truck crashed into a Bellevue home last week, leaving a gaping hole in the master bedroom. Thanks to a miraculous set of coincidences, no one in the home was injured. The family who lives in the house was on vacation – a vacation that saved their 3-month-old baby’s life. “The baby would have been sleeping up against that wall right after its lunch feeding when the accident happened,” said Josh Hesse, who worked in the recording studio housed in the basement of the house. Neither he nor his fellow employees were injured because they decided, on a whim, to work outside that day. “Myself and my staff decided to enjoy the nice day, so we moved out in the backyard to a little gazebo we had,” Hesse said. “We were just talking about some business and we heard the sound of this truck just roaring down the hill…
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Garbage Truck Smashes Into Bellevue Home
May 18th, 2012Tennessee Teen Car Wreck Fatalities 12th in the Nation
May 16th, 2012Driving that first car is an exciting time for a teenager. A car means freedom, a rite of passage, a symbol of growing older. Unfortunately, it is also a symbol of danger and risk. Tennessee ranks twelfth in the country for drivers aged 16 and 17 who die in car accidents. For all crashes involving passenger vehicles in that age group, 15 percent of them die from their injuries. These accidents can be prevented; Proverbs 22:6 tells us that the lessons a child learns early on will stay with him his entire life. Here are a few ways to keep our teens from perishing in automobile accidents: Seatbelts. According to the CDC, wearing a seatbelt reduces the fatality risk by about 50 percent. Teens are less likely to wear seatbelts when out driving with their friends since there is no adult present to enforce the rule. Distractions. Teens have all…
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Tennessee Road Construction Accident Statistics
May 14th, 2012Warmer weather means we can expect more sunlight, more superhero movies at the cinema, more Sunday barbecues and, of course, more orange cones on the highway. Local, federal and state agencies are urging drivers everywhere to help make construction zones safer for everyone. Here is how Tennessee ranks in work zone safety. In 2010, Tennessee saw seven fatal car accidents in work zones. This is below the national average of 11. As a whole, there were 1,024 fatal construction accidents on Tennessee roads. Overall, Tennessee work zone crashes have decreased steadily over the past 13 years: 1996: 5,199 1997: 6,421 1998: 6,268 1999: 5,544 2000: 6,390 2001: 6,574 2002: 7,175 2003: 5,780 2004: 5,434 2005: 5,147 2006: 4,588 2007: 3,370 2008: 2,365 2009: 2,360 The sharp decline in accidents since 2005 coincides with multi-million dollar efforts by the Federal Highway Administration to train highway workers in new safety measures. The…
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