He was determined to continue playing basketball. On November 12, 1976, as Terry Fox was driving home , he became distracted by nearby bridge construction, and crashed into the back of a pickup truck. While his car was left undriveable, Fox emerged with only a sore right knee. He again felt pain in December, but chose to ignore it until the end of basketball season. By March 1977, the pain had intensified and he finally went to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of cancer that often starts near the knees.Terry Fox believed his car accident weakened his knee and left it vulnerable to the disease, though his doctors argued there was no connection.
Another accident involved a Ford Explorer driven by Victor Rodriguez from Laredo, Texas. The Firestone tire shredded off while Victor was driving. His car flipped and Mr. Rodriguez’s 10 year old son Mark Anthony died at the crash site. On February 7, 2000, Anne Werner, a reporter at KHOU-TV, in Houston, TX, introduced Cynthia Jackson, who described how her husband of a year and a half had died and how her own legs were amputated above the knee because their Ford Explorer fitted with the original Firestone Radial ATX tires flipped after the front tire came apart1. Firestone later reprimanded Robert W. Dechrd, CEO of A.H. Bello Corporation (owners of KHOU) and Peter Diaz, President and General Manager of KHOU, for airing the story which, according to them, “contained falsehoods and misrepresentations that improperly disparage Firestone and, its product, the Radial ATX model tire”2.
Article #2 “Seamless Transition, Jimmy: A Case Study,”is an article that describes Jimmy’s success story after proper transitions and IEP meetings were held throughout his educational career. Jimmy, at the age of 7, suffered head injuries from being struck by a truck when riding home from school on his bike. He was thrown more than 30 feet in the air and hit a rock wall. Sadly, the driver fled the collision, leaving Jimmy bleeding and unconscious for more than 30 minute until another driver found him. He was taken to the hospital, where he faced surgery, rehabilitation, and a referral was made to hisprimary physician.
On Wednesday, April 15 seventeen year old Edward Hazelwood, also known as “Gato”, lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. Miami-Dade Police said two cars were speeding down Lakes of the Meadow which is a residential neighborhood with narrow lanes and many tight turns. Friends at the scene said Hazelwood was racing another friend, who they identified as 18-year-old Giovani Cordano, who police have already arrested. Racing is nothing but bad news, and could only bring sorrow and hardship for families all over. My good friend gato was not even of legal age yet.
An accident happened on Pyramid Highway and it was a fatal one. According to a Trooper, Chuck Allen, an accident involved a 2004 Ford F-350 pick-up truck and a 2006 Subaru Outback wagon. Allen says it appears the accident was caused when the Subaru struck the pick-up, causing it to veer off the roadway and roll-over. The drivers of pick-up truck were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the truck. After hitting the truck, the Subaru traveled several hundred feet before it veered off the road, striking a rock, rolling over and then hitting a six-foot-tall fence.
Although no one dies from the crash, but Robert gets stuck in the car, which after the crash ends up having a gas leak which causes the car to burn with him inside it. “The whole car is in flames, and Rob is still stuck inside, and we can hear him screamin’, ‘Andy! Andy! Help me!’” The three teens watch as their friend gets burned to death.
In The Fast and the Furious, Dominic's violent behavior dates back to a traumatic incident during his teenage years, when his father, a stock car racer, was killed in a drag race after his rival accidentally collided with him. Enraged by his father's death, Dominic attacked the rival driver with a torque wrench and left him hospitalized with severe head injuries. Dominic served time in juvenile hall for the assault. He nearly replicates the action while fighting Hobbs in Fast Five, only to miss Hobbs' head by an inch when Mia begs him to stop. In Fast Five, Dominic recalls the influence his father had on him.
Another motorist stops to help and tells you, “I was behind your car for a few miles, I saw the whole thing happen. Your vehicle flipped 2 times, landed on its’ top and skidded for several feet.” This scenario actually happened to me in 1996 near Boise, Idaho. What I didn’t know was the reason my friend had fallen asleep at the wheel was because he was drunk also. He’d had several shots over the course of the night and hadn’t bothered to tell me before we started our trip home. He not only put his life in danger but mine as well.
However, this safety problem was not resolved and production started with the “deadly” design. The Ford Pinto was released in the market in 1971. Several deaths were related to the tank design of the car. Ford lost millions of dollars in lawsuits, its reputation suffered tremendously and after an investigation from the Department of Transportation, Ford called for a recall in 1978 of 1.5 million Pintos. In 1980, Ford stopped the production of their Pinto car.
In fact, he was already making a living playing bal musette music on banjo in French music halls by the age of 13. Around this time he also cut his first record. At the age of 18, Django was badly injured in a fire that engulfed the caravan that he shared with his with. The story goes that some of the highly flammable celluloid flowers that his wife sold to make extra money caught fire when Django knocked over a candle on the way to bed. Django received first and second degree burns over half his body, his right leg was paralyzed, and his left hand was so severly burned that the doctors believed that he would never play again.