Car Accidents

The words from a Missouri Highway Patrol sergeant hit hard: “Distraction is the leading cause of all traffic crashes in the state of Missouri,” he told a Joplin news outlet. Hopefully, his words will also serve to awaken people to the dangers of distracted driving. Those motor vehicle accidents cause injuries to drivers, passengers, pedestrians […]

Just one injury. Just one death. Everyone should understand that even a single distracted driving injury or one distracted driving fatality is one too many. Yet we still see distracted drivers every day all across Joplin and Jasper County. Distracted driving isn’t by any means a problem restricted to our city, county or state. It’s […]

Like all of the major holidays, Labor Day is not only a celebration, but also an annual touchstone. When we get to Labor Day, we know a scorching Joplin summer is about to give way to a kinder, gentler autumn. It’s also a time to wrap up the summer with a last round of picnics, […]

Just about an hour’s drive north of Joplin sits the tiny town of Sheldon, Missouri. The quiet there was shattered on a recent Sunday afternoon when two cars collided head-on about a mile north of town on Interstate 49. A car driven north by a 92-year-old Sheldon woman was reportedly in the highway’s southbound lanes […]

The Fourth of July holiday celebration is going to get off with a bang not far from us in Joplin. Just a short drive on Interstate 44 will take you to Lawrence County, where law enforcement officials are determined to do their level best to prevent car accidents caused by drunken drivers over the big […]

The numbers are staggering. A Missouri man has been convicted of DWI six times, yet spent less than a total of two years behind bars for the offenses (state law says that after three convictions, a person can be sentenced to 15 years in prison). His criminal record stretches far beyond the repeated drunk driving […]

The Joplin Globe recently ran an article that had us wonder: what would you do if you had an invention with the potential to save thousands of lives every year, but the device was illegal to operate? That’s the dilemma technology giant Google faced with its driverless cars. The vehicles piloted by computers might well […]

The people of Granby are rightfully proud of their quiet, small community just 25 miles southeast of Joplin. The quiet was shattered on a recent Monday morning, however, when a 72-year-old woman walking on Main Street was struck and killed in a car accident. Law enforcement officials said the 22-year-old woman driving a southbound vehicle […]

About an hour east of Joplin, a Missouri man was recently killed as he drove the wrong way on U.S. 65. The 57-year-old Marshfield man drove south in the northbound lane before slamming head-on into a mid-size SUV driven by a 42-year-old Cape Fair woman. She was injured in the motor vehicle accident this past […]

The Baby Boom generation has been America’s largest generation in history. But as its members began to gray and approach retirement, safety researchers worried that aging Boomers would increase the number of car accidents on our nation’s highways. But older Joplin drivers should be reassured: today’s drivers age 70 or above are less likely to […]