Sunday, July 5, 2026
An HVAC technician is shocked by a client's improperly grounded panel. A freelance photographer falls through a rotted deck board at a venue. A self-employed courier…
A four-car chain on the Downtown Connector starts with one sudden stop and ends with vehicles spread across three lanes, several drivers hurt, and a single…
A sideswipe looks like the gentlest kind of collision: two vehicles moving the same direction, a glancing scrape along the doors, no head-on violence. The damage…
A scaffold gives way because a rental company let its components corrode. A crane operated by a separate trade swings a load into a steel crew.…
A brake-check on I-285, a vehicle deliberately forced onto the shoulder, a driver who exits and swings at the window: these are not the inattentive mistakes…
A roller coaster restraint pops open mid-cycle. A water slide's curve generates forces its rider never agreed to. A traveling carnival ride assembled overnight in a…
A frontal airbag deploys in milliseconds, and that speed is the point: it is supposed to cushion an occupant before the body reaches the wheel or…
A single high-energy event, a highway rollover, an industrial explosion, a fall from height, can leave one person with a brain injury, a spinal cord injury,…
A grape on the floor of a produce aisle, a puddle under a leaking freezer case, a slick of liquid soap in a cleaning-supply lane: the…
A revolving door is a machine the public walks into without thinking, and when it speeds up unexpectedly, reverses, or catches a hand, a coat, or…
Georgia is one of a shrinking number of states with a universal motorcycle helmet rule: every rider and every passenger must wear approved headgear, with no…
A yellow school bus stops on a Georgia road, its red lights flashing and stop arm extended, and a child steps down toward the curb. When…
Georgia neither makes a dog owner automatically liable for a bite nor gives every dog one free bite. It occupies a middle position that often hinges…
Carbon monoxide gives no warning. It is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, and it displaces oxygen in the blood while the early symptoms, headache, dizziness, nausea, confusion,…
The logo on the side of the van is the first thing a crash victim sees, and it is usually the least reliable guide to who…
A downpour on I-285, a fog bank settling over a rural two-lane at dawn, a glaze of black ice on an overpass after an overnight freeze:…
A child develops hemolytic uremic syndrome and kidney failure after eating undercooked ground beef. A diner spends a week hospitalized after a Salmonella-laced meal. A pregnant…
A patient consents to surgery on the left knee and wakes with an incision on the right. A laparotomy ends, the abdomen is closed, and a…
A mammogram shadow is filed away as benign. A persistent cough is charged to allergies. A rising tumor marker is never followed up. When a Georgia…
On a backed-up stretch of I-285 in summer, threading a motorcycle between two rows of stopped cars looks like simple geometry: the bike fits, traffic does…
A traumatic brain injury rarely announces itself on a single X-ray. A parent stops recognizing the rhythms of family life, a tradesperson can no longer hold…
In Peachtree City, on Sea Island, and across the planned communities and beach towns where a cart is everyday transportation, the golf cart has long since…
A standing rider is thrown to the floor when a city bus brakes hard, a passenger falls in the gap between the bus and the curb,…
A child restraint is judged by the worst seconds it will ever see. A harness that releases in a rollover, a LATCH connector that fractures and…
A runner struck by a car on a Georgia road faces the full force of a vehicle with almost nothing between body and bumper, and the…