Tag: car accident attorney
What Causes Most Car Accidents?
You’re driving along at full highway speed. Music plays. Thoughts wander from that project at work to weekend plans. Seems like nothing could go wrong. The suddenly, bam. Car accidents kill 38,000 people in the U.S. each year. Two million injuries result from car accidents annually. Records indicated 34,436 car […]
TV Lawyers Dominate the Airwaves: Are they Right For You?
TV lawyers blanket the airwaves. It seems like you can’t watch TV for more than a minute without seeing a pile of lawyer advertising. They pretty much dominate daytime TV with lawyer ads. Not that you don’t see ads for attorneys on prime time television. Daytime TV works out better […]
Snow Plow Accidents: Why They Happen
Snowplow accidents happen. They may be rare but they do happen. When the snow flies we all rely heavily on snow plows to clear and treat the roads. As the white stuff piles up, snow plows barrel through to keep highways and byways from becoming impassable. Plow truck drivers face […]
Dangers of Using Cellphone While Driving Worse Than Feared
Despite public awareness campaigns about the dangers of using a cellphone while driving, industry experts report American drivers are ignoring the cautions. People love their smartphones. You can talk on the phone, you can text, check emails, take photos and videos, even go on the internet and do pretty much […]
Wrong Way Accidents: Why They Happen
Wrong-way accidents cause between 300 and 400 fatalities every year according to the Federal Highway Administration. FHA defines wrong way driving as a driver who drives a vehicle in the opposite direction of travel on a freeway or highway and collides with a vehicle traveling in the correct direction. Wrong […]
Aggressive Driving: Avoiding Bad Drivers and
Aggressive driving causes approximately two thirds of all fatalities on U.S. highways. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) research also links a full 94% of motor vehicle accidents to driver error. Motor vehicle accidents rank number one among all accidental deaths in the United States. Highway experts believe many of […]
Top 5 Reasons For Teen Car Accidents
Teen car accidents kill, on average, approximately 6 teenagers each day in the U.S. That number, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention makes motor vehicle crashes the leading cause of teenage deaths. Overall, more than 30,000 people die in car accidents every year in the U.S. National […]
Teen Drivers: Knowing What to do After a Car Accident
Teen Drivers – those between 16 and 19 – are three times more likely to get involved in a car accident than those 20 or older. One in four teens will be in a collision during their first year of driving. U.S. Department of Transportation Statistics confirm 963 thousand teen […]
Rotaries: Traffic Dangers and Statistics
Traffic rotaries send traffic looping around in a circle instead of meeting at an intersection. In the U.S. they exist largely but not entirely in New England. Rotaries started out in Europe but were imported to the U.S. as an alternative to controlled intersections. Highway “experts” claim rotaries aid in […]
Distracted Driving: Eating While Driving
Distracted driving causes 80% of all motor vehicle accidents and 16% of highway fatalities. In studies by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or “NHTSA” texting and jabbering on the cell phone top the list of distractions. But eating while driving, something 86% of drivers admit to, also presents a […]
