Ford Motor Co. has recently issued a recall for select Ford Escape vehicles due to a “potential issue with panorama roof glass,” in which the glass may not be securely fastened to the vehicles bracket. Among the affected vehicles are certain 2014 Ford Escape vehicles manufactured within the time period of October 15 to October […]
General Motors will pay as much as $1 million to every family of the 13 individuals killed as a result of their vehicles’ defective ignition switches, WDRB News reported on June 30. Another $300,000 will be given to every single surviving spouse and dependent of the killed victim in addition to the initial amount. On the same […]
A seven-year-old girl, whose identity the police authorities did not make known to the public, died at the scene of a car crash the morning of May 17, Wave 3 News reported. Three other passengers were riding with the girl when their vehicle was struck by a Jeep on the 7200 block of Terry Road at […]
A three-vehicle car crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 71 at the two-mile marker near Zorn Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday, April 24 at around 9:30 p.m. caused a teenager and two adults to incur minor injuries. According to preliminary investigations, one vehicle was having engine troubles and was parked off the road […]
Police officers from the Louisville Metro Police in Kentucky took Eric Bratcher into custody on April 21, claiming he hit a car on South 6th Street and then fled the scene of the accident. The arrest warrant showed that Bratcher collided with the car’s right side and broke the car’s mirror on that side. According to […]
Three people suffered from fatal injuries in Greenup County on Sunday, March 16 after a head-on collision. The accident occurred around 4 p.m. along the 2000 block of U.S. Route 23 and claimed the lives of Tracie Howard, 43, Ruby Brown, 22, and Jamond Buford, 30. Joshua Bowling, 33, survived the accident and was transported […]
Police authorities took 50-year-old Goshen, Kentucky resident Donald Jefferies into custody on Thursday, March 6 for charges of driving under the influence of prescription medication, driving while intoxicated, and three counts of assault in the first degree in relation to a Carroll County, Carrollton car accident that injured three people. Kentucky State Police Dave Roberts was […]
Kentucky State Police statistics show that out of the 7,164 vehicular collisions involving distracted driving in the state in 2013, 256 of those involved Louisville Metro Police Department officers. Additionally, 34% of those occurred due to the negligence of the police officer that figured in the accident. According to Lieutenant Michael O’Neill, training commander for […]
Law enforcement agents in Shively, Kentucky found two cars at the scene of an auto accident at Dixie Highway and Klages Avenue at around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 19; one was tipped over to the side and smashed into a broken utility pole and the other was crashed inside a Clarke Motel room located […]
A car accident that involved a member of the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department and a civilian citizen caused two people to be sent to a medical facility. The two-vehicle collision happened at 34th Street and Greenwood Avenue shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 8. According to an LMPD spokeswoman, the police officer was chasing robbery […]
