Posts tagged phone

• Cell Phone Use While Driving Tractor Trailers Banned

  Michael Roberts | November 28, 2011 4:05 PM | 3 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Half a million injuries and nearly 5500 deaths were attributed to accidents involving distracted driving in 2009. In a giant step toward safety, a final rule was announced restricting the use...

• Teenage Drivers in Alabama

  Jon Lewis | October 10, 2011 11:56 AM | 4 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Okay, so many of my eldest son's friends are getting to that age (14, 15, and 16). I had two parents ask me about the new teen driving laws in Alabama. One asked if my son had started driving,...

• What Causes Car Accidents?

  Jon Lewis | December 10, 2008 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Birmingham News article in today's paper referenced a talk given by John Staddon, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Duke University. The talk was given at an advisory board meeting of the UAB...

• Do you Text and Drive?

  Jon Lewis | October 27, 2011 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  DID YOU KNOW? Distracted driving is the number one cause of accidents. What is distracted driving? Well, there are three types according to the U.S. Department of Transportation: 1. Visual -...

• Holiday Travel - On the Road Again

  Jon Lewis | November 23, 2011 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Everytime I hear that phrase, I think of Willie Nelson's song, On the Road Again. Just Can't wait to get on the Road again. It seems like everyone is on the roads lately,...

• Texting and Driving

  Jon Lewis | July 05, 2011 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Addition to Blog: A great attorney add showing effects of Distracted Driving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vu79GYdH7U This Fourth of July weekend, I happened to be watching TV, and the...

• Cell Phone use cited in Fatal Crash - Shocking

  Danny Feldman | May 06, 2010 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A crash that resulted in 11 deaths apparantly was caused by an Alabama truck driver who crossed the median and plowed into a van occupied by 10 people. According to the report, the trucker lost...

• Harassing Phone Calls

  Gaines Drago | January 13, 2010 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Harrassing phone calls by collection agencies have become a constant problem for many people. Originally these calls were coming only to land lines, but no there appears to be no hiding from...

• Don't Text or Use a Cell Phone while riding a bicycle

  Danny Feldman | June 11, 2009 6:57 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is a continuing blog in a series of blogs regarding annoying or dangerous cycling behavior. It really goes without saying, doesn't it? - Don't text or talk on a cell phone while cycling. Its...

• Asleep at the Wheel

  Jon Lewis | June 04, 2008 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Monday, June 2, 2008, a horrible collision occurred on U.S. 280 in Mountain Brook. According to the Birmingham News, a 20-year old Auburn University student, Heather Eagan, may have fallen...