In June 2015, Benjamin Brewer drove his 18-wheeler into a construction zone at about 80mph. Traffic in the construction zone had slowed to crawl, but Brewer made no attempt to evade a collision or brake his rig. He caused a chain-reaction collision that involved 7 cars and 18 people; when the dust settled, six people [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that traumatic brain injury contributes to about 30% of all injury deaths, and that more than 100 people die every day in the US from injuries that include TBI. The amount of new injuries every year pales in comparison to the number of people who live [...]
Two adults and four children were transported to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital after a rollover crash in mid-October. Driver Deborah Ellison, 26, lost control of the vehicle during the morning commute. None of her four children, who range in age from 8-months to three-years-old, were properly restrained in car or booster seats, according to the Metro [...]
A multi-vehicle crash on I-40 left three people dead and one injured on November 11. The accident shut down I-40 westbound for nearly seven hours as first responders worked to extinguish vehicle fires prevent further incidents. The wreck involved a head-on collision between two tractor-trailers, and the resulting devastation left three families mourning untimely losses. [...]
Jody Albright acted without thinking. Just seconds before, the car in front of him slammed into a sign after the driver lost control. The car caught fire almost instantly, but the unknown driver was lucky; Albright and another good Samaritan wasted no time pulling him from the wreck. First responders arrived so quickly that Albright [...]
We talk about traumatic birth injury all the time. We discuss risk factors, what to expect when you’re expecting, and what to expect after an injury occurs. However, we mostly talk about your medical team or your child; what about you? When something goes wrong during labor or delivery, parents are left wondering if an [...]
You heard it here first, folks. The ongoing research efforts to understand how the brain functions and heals might get a huge boost from researchers working with lowly pre-frogs. Dr. Amy Sater, chair of the University of Houston’s biology and biochemistry department, recently spoke to the Houston Chronicle about a new two-year study that will [...]
The ongoing efforts of research into traumatic brain injury have brought concussions, traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy into the spotlight over the past few years. In March, we wrote about a milestone in which the NFL publicly acknowledged that football players are at higher risk of developing the degenerative brain disease. Today, we’re [...]
In September, a tractor-trailer traveling west on I-24 in Marion County ran off the road and overturned. The driver, 32-year-old Matthew Ross Burke, was not wearing his seatbelt and died in the crash. His wife was sleeping in the cab during the accident; she was transported to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries. [...]
So far this year, we’ve seen millions of products recalled because they might explode and cause injuries or set you or your belongings on fire. The items run the gamut from cell phones to washing machines to children’s toys to airbags, and it seems like new products that have the potential to injure, incapacitate, maim, [...]
