we are very lucky we were not in the bus say Brian Gerald Snitker
The Braves’ Single-A baseball team was back together and headed to Myrtle Beach this afternoon after an
early-morning bus crash, according to the Carolina Mudcats’ director of broadcasting and media relations.
Greg Young, the Mudcats’ director of broadcasting and media relations, said all team members took a second
bus to Myrtle Beach after the original bush flipped over in Columbus County, N.C., at about 4 pm on sunday .
The team was traveling overnight from Salem, Va., with 0 people on board.
Accident, unexpected event, typically sudden in nature and associated with injury, loss, or harm. Accidents are a common feature of the human experience and result in injury or permanent disability to large numbers of people worldwide every year. Many accidents also involve damage to or loss of property. Accidents can occur anywhere, including in the home, during transportation, in the hospital, on the sports field, or in the workplace. With appropriate safety precautions and awareness of one’s actions and environment, many accidents can be avoided or prevented.
Worldwide, motor vehicle accidents are a major cause of death, and, despite improvements in automobile safety, projections have indicated that deaths from traffic crashes will increase significantly by 2030 because of increased motor vehicle ownership. Examples of causes of traffic accidents include speeding, drunk driving, distracted driving, and inexperienced driving. Although seat belts can save lives, millions of people fail to use them. Likewise, helmets are an effective means of protecting motorcyclists from traumatic brain injury and death, yet many riders choose not to wear a helmet.
Accidents during sports have long been the cause of debilitating injuries. Since the rise of modern organized sports in the 18th century, all sports—especially those involving contact, such as boxing, American football, and rugby—have witnessed crippling injuries, disability, and death. Sports in which an individual is elevated off the ground, such as horseback riding, mountain climbing, and rappelling, account for a high number of head and spinal injuries as well as fractures. From the latter part of the 20th century, the number of sports that deliberately court danger, the so-called extreme sports, grew rapidly and resulted in a concomitant number of injuries.
For some sports, changes in rules and safety equipment have helped to reduce the incidence and severity of accidents on the sports field. However, such action does not eradicate injury. For example, despite more stringent penalties for illegal checking in ice hockey and helmet-to-helmet contact in American football, concussion remains a major source of long-term disability in those sports.
