Posts tagged injuries

• Police Officer Pulls Driver from Burning Vehicle

  Chrissie Cole | August 17, 2007 7:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A driver traveling on the Southland Freeway struck the center divider causing his engine to catch fire in a car accident on Friday. Trapped in the vehicle, the man owes his life to an L.A. police officer who pulled him from the burning vehicle. To rescue him, the officer had to break the passenger window of the burning vehicle. Fortunately, the man only suffered a broken collar bone in the...

• Firefighter Suffers Burn Injury Battling House Fire

  Christina Cole | May 07, 2007 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A firefighter suffered a minor burn injury to his leg, on Saturday, in a blaze that destroyed the attic and one bedroom of a two-story house, police said. The firefighter was treated at the scene and released, according to the fire deparment.The fire started at approximately 7:50 a.m. in a single-family house located in the 31100 block of Lemm Drive, according to Riverside County Fire...

• Research Shows Head Injuries can Impair Sleep

  Christina Cole | April 07, 2007 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A new research study shows, people that have suffered mild head injuries are more likely to have problems sleeping and getting a good nights rest.The study found 40 to 65 percent of patients with a mild brain injury complained of insomnia. The lack of sleep can increase other symptoms of the head injury such as headaches, cognitive skills and emotional problems.Researches say, a head injury can...

• Brain Injury Sidelines Aspiring Newscaster:

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Twenty-four year old aspiring newscaster Brian Kelly hobnobbed with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, and reporters for such shows as Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News before his car collided with a 35-foot-long bookmobile back in Chicago in 2001, causing severe and traumatic brain injuries. The collision nearly took Brian's life. He was given last rites four times. ...

• Why wear a bicycle helmet....?

  IB Contributor | March 30, 2007 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  The doctor who became the patient.Claudia Osborn had been practicing medicine as an osteopathic doctor for about two years when she made a big mistake. Claudia was on her bicycle, enjoying a summer ride, when a young man lost control of his car-hitting Claudia and sending her flying over the hood of his car. Claudia was not wearing her helmet! As a result of her bicycle accident, Claudia...

• Vacuum Truck Driver Killed in Explosion

  Christina Cole | March 13, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Man Killed in a deadly oil field explosion.A man is dead after the vacuum truck he was driving hit an oil well triggering a horrendous explosion, this morning.He was found dead two hours after the fire was reported, according to Fire Department officials. At first, officials were under the assumption that it was a natural gas fire with no injuries. Fire Rescue had to stay a good distance away...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Steals a Life

  IB Contributor | March 08, 2007 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Motorcycle vs. truck accident results in catastrophic loss.Todd Richardson, a 38 year-old father of 5 young children, was on his motorcycle and on his way to buy a part for his boat. Todd planned to take his family to Lake Powell, Utah. When Todd waved goodbye to his family he didn't know it would be three months before he would return home to a very different life than he had when he waved...

• Can The Brain Rewire Itself After a Traumatic Injury?

  IB Contributor | February 28, 2007 1:27 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Good news after twenty years!Most mothers are not surprised when they get a phone call from their daughter, but when Betsy Scantlin got a call from her daughter Sarah Scantlin she was stunned, because Sarah had been basically unconscious for twenty years after having been hit by a drunk driver. The doctors told Sara's dad, James Scantlin, "The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had...

• Feds Shut Mine - 22 Violations Discovered

  IB Contributor | February 01, 2007 9:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Mining Company Covered Up Prior ExplosionPennsylvania regulators have stripped a coal mine operator of its permit because they say the operator covered up the cause of an explosion two years before a miner was killed there in a similar blast, according to an Associated Press news report. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered R&D Coal Company to shutter its Buck...