May 2012

A tractor trailer’s excessive speed in a curve was blamed for the big rig tipping over May 2012, killing a woman en route to pick up the diploma of her daughter who had graduated from high school earlier that week, according to a report by Robert Salonga in the San Jose Mercury News.

In San Jose, California, taking an exit on I-680, Hieu Huynh was  riding in a Toyota Camry driven by her daughter. The daughter saw a truck coming and tapped her brakes to create some space.  She didn’t see the rig tipping over, but her mother did. 

Atlanta area news coverage this spring has been dominated by the story of a young woman graduate student who suffered a gash on her leg in an accident on a homemade zip line during a rafting trip on the Tallapoosa River. She was taken to the emergency department of the local hospital in a suburban county where, according to news reports, the gash on her leg was stapled shut. I have not seen media reports as to whether or not she was given antibiotics at that time.

Afterward she developed the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis, resulting in amputation of a