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Grandparents may be safer drivers than parents

Study: Grandparents may be safer drivers than parents

 

Lindsey Tanner

Associated Press 

July 18, 2011

Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist, is the lead author of a study that says that children may be safest in cars when grandparents are driving instead of mom or dad.

AP Photo courtesy of Jonathan Henretig

Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist, is the lead author of a study that says that children may be safest in cars when grandparents are driving instead of mom or dad.

 

Chicago — Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take.

“We were surprised to discover that the injury rate was considerably lower in crashes where grandparents were the drivers,” said Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the study’s lead author.

Previous evidence indicates that car crashes are more common in older drivers, mostly those beyond age 65. The study looked at injuries rather than who had more crashes and found that children’s risk for injury was 50 percent lower when riding with grandparents than with parents.

The results are from an analysis of State Farm insurance claims for 2003-07 car crashes in 15 states, and interviews with the drivers. The data involved nearly 12,000 children up to age 15.

Henretig, 64, said the study was prompted by his own experiences when his first grandchild was born three years ago.

“I found myself being very nervous on the occasions that we drove our granddaughter around and really wondered if anyone had ever looked at this before,” he said.

Reasons for the unexpected findings are uncertain, but the researchers have a theory.

“Perhaps grandparents are made more nervous about the task of driving with the ‘precious cargo’ of their grandchildren and establish more cautious driving habits” to compensate for any age-related challenges, they wrote.

The study was released online today in the journal Pediatrics.

Northwestern University Professor Joseph Schofer, a transportation expert not involved in the research, noted that the average age of grandparents studied was 58.

“Grandparents today are not that old” and don’t fit the image of an impaired older driver, he said. “None of us should represent grandparents as kind of hobbling to the car on a walker.”

Grandparents did flub one safety measure. Nearly all the kids were in car seats or seat belts, but grandparents were slightly less likely to follow recommended practices, which include rear-facing backseat car seats for infants and no front-seats. But that didn’t seem to affect injury rates.

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Fan gets spirited sendoff at his funeral

Corpse in O-H-I-O photo honors deceased's passion, family says

 

Thursday, July 14, 2011  03:07 AM
Encarnacion Pyle
 

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Juli Miracle thinks her dad, Roy Miracle, would be tickled by his family letting him play the 'I" in "O-H-I-O" a final time. From left are Ann Robinson, Juli Miracle, Roy Miracle and Rick Ives.
 
Throughout his life, Buckeyes fan Roy Miracle of Newark was a bit of a prankster.

So when he died on July 1, his daughter Juli decided to give the 80-year-old a fitting sendoff: by snapping a photo of an O-H-I-O cheer before his funeral, with Mr. Miracle taking his usual position as the "I" from an open casket.

No one close to the Miracles thought anything of it, even after the photo went viral yesterday. But bloggers nationwide pointed to the picture as the ultimate example of just how far some Buckeye fans go to show their passion.

Some called the picture awesome, fun and a unique tribute to a true fan. Others questioned its appropriateness, saying they were disturbed by seeing Mr. Miracle's body used in such a public way.

Juli Miracle, of Newark, said she did it for her father because it captured his fun-loving spirit and love for the Buckeyes.

"I didn't do it for anybody but Dad and I," Ms. Miracle said. "To me, it was the best honor and tribute to do for him and OSU."

She said that she even led the congregation in an "O-H-I-O" at the end of his funeral service.

The Rev. Mark Chow, who officiated over Miracle's funeral at First United Methodist Church in Newark, said Ms. Miracle meant the photo as a tribute to her father.

"He was a fun-loving man who loved to tease," Chow said.

For the visitation, Ms. Miracle and her mother also put a candy bar in Mr. Miracle's hand to playfully honor his work in the church kitchen.

Ms. Miracle submitted the photo to the Ohio State website www.osu.edu/O-H-I-O with the headline, "Now Dad is the permanent 'I'."

Ohio State officials posted the picture this past weekend, but it was briefly taken down because a junior staff member feared it might offend some people, university spokeswoman Liz Cook said. Officials restored it to the site yesterday morning.

Several ethicists and religious leaders say the family's choice shouldn't be judged.

Families know how best to honor their loved one, said Monsignor Joseph Hendricks, pastor of St. Brigid of Kildare Catholic Church in Dublin.

Royal Rhodes, a religious-studies professor at Kenyon College, said there is a long tradition of family photos of the dead in various poses, as well as athletes and sports fans decked out in their team gear.

"It is a bit like the sensibility one finds in the comic film Weekend at Bernie ' s , in which the corpse is dressed up and positioned so as to give the impression he is still alive," Rhodes said.

Dispatch reporter Jim Woods contributed to this story.

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Man tries to rob ATM using a hatchet

Taunton man arrested after attempting to rob ATM using a hatchet

 
Scott Michaud mug shot

Scott Michaud allegedly tried to rob an ATM machine at the Taunton Federal Credit Union using a hatchet.



Charles Winokoor
Staff Writer
Jul 14, 2011 @ 11:42 PM
 
TAUNTON —

It was a hatchet job gone awry.

A city man wearing a hat, gloves and dark glasses tried unsuccessfully — by means of a hatchet, police said — to make an unauthorized cash withdrawal early Thursday morning from the ATM inside the lobby of Taunton Federal Credit Union’s main office at 14 Church Green.

Police at 5:15 a.m. got a call from one of two women who reportedly had just seen a man, later identified as 50-year-old Scott Michaud, striking the ATM with what appeared to be a hammer.

Michaud, with a last known address of 19 Fayette Place, allegedly walked out of the building after his encounter with the cash machine and headed toward the rear parking area.

Patrolman James Oliveira reported spotting the suspect walking down Fruit Street, and when he exited his cruiser to try asking some questions, Michaud allegedly glanced over and began walking faster.

When ordered to stop, the suspect reportedly began walking at an even quicker pace, which led Oliveira to physically block him and guide him to the rear of his cruiser.

While escorting Michaud the officer said he felt a hard object in his jacket pocket and handcuffed him as a precaution. That object, Oliveira said, turned out to have been a silver hatchet with a foot-long black handle.

Michaud reportedly nodded while his Miranda rights were being recited but refused to make a statement or identify himself. A matching Massachusetts driver’s license was found in his pocket, according to Oliveira’s report.

A computer check of the license indicated Michaud had an outstanding warrant.

A more complete pat frisk turned up a blue bag containing a pair of gloves, sunglasses, a black hat and $178 in cash, police said.

Michaud was arrested on the warrant and was also charged with malicious destruction of property over $250.

Police said they plan to review the contents of the TFCU surveillance video.

An employee of the credit union, who requested anonymity, said that trying to break into an ATM machine — especially one that’s imbedded within a wall and not a free-standing kiosk — makes "absolutely no sense."

Even if one were able to somehow break into the machine, he said, the actual cash would still be physically well out of reach.



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Groom arrested for having contact with bride

Groom arrested for having contact with bride in violation of court order

 

HUEY FREEMAN

H&R Staff Writer Herald-Review

Friday, July 15, 2011 3:01 am

DECATUR - As the bride, wearing a white dress, and the groom, sporting a red T-shirt and trousers, waited outside Courtroom 3A, along with about 15 guests, the bride was suddenly ushered away for a brief conference with authorities.

The groom, 23-year-old Billy J. Rutherford, was then arrested for violating terms of his bail, which prohibits contact with his alleged domestic battery victim.

The victim was the prospective bride.

At the time of his arrest Wednesday at the Macon County Courts Facility, Rutherford was free on bond in two cases.

In the first case, he was charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery and three counts of domestic battery with a prior conviction for the same crime, according to court documents.

He is facing up to seven years in prison, if convicted on the most serious count.

The victim told police that Rutherford "had been beating on her all day" at her home March 5. The beating included striking her all over her face, head and body; shoving her head into a kitchen cabinet and throwing her through a coffee table.

On March 9, while Rutherford was in jail, the victim was granted an order of protection against him.

Rutherford posted $1,000 cash bail two days later and was released on the condition that he was to have no contact with the victim.

For allegedly violating the order of protection, he was arrested two weeks later, returned to jail and charged with three new felony counts.

On March 27, he posted $5,000 bail and was released again.

Rutherford, slated to appear in court Monday in the domestic battery case and Wednesday in the order of protection case, was hoping to be a married man during those upcoming hearings.

Rutherford and his fiancée, who is not identified because she is a domestic battery victim, had planned to be married by Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith.

At the time of his arrest Wednesday afternoon, Rutherford told officers he wanted to be married by Griffith because he had represented both of them in separate cases earlier, when he was a private attorney.

After Rutherford was arrested Wednesday, he was booked into the jail and later released on bail.

Prosecutors are planning to charge him with violation of bail bond, punishable by up to 364 days in jail.



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Entry #5,046

Woman tries to smuggle in jail Meth inside Bible

July 15, 2011

Cops: Indiana Woman Hid Meth Inside Bible In Jail Smuggling Bid

Smoking Gun

A woman is facing felony charges for allegedly hiding methamphetamine inside a Bible that she attempted to leave for an inmate at an Indiana county jail.

But the smuggling bid was thwarted when jailers noticed that the Good Book appeared to have been tampered with. A further examination revealed that the meth (and some tobacco) had been stashed inside the book’s binding.

The Bible and the seized contraband are pictured in the above police evidence photo.

Cops Tuesday arrested Sara Roseberry for trying to smuggle the items to a friend locked up at the Jennings County jail (Roseberry herself is now being held there in lieu of $100,000 bond). The 21-year-old defendant is pictured in the mug shot at right.

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