Posts tagged wreck

• Driver Distractions

  Danny Lehane | April 10, 2009 1:19 PM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As one drives on the main roads throughout Alabama the Beautiful, it is a given that you will encounter other drivers. A quick glance at surrounding drivers is always quite interesting. The diverse...

• Buzzing a Cyclist is Dangerous

  Danny Feldman | April 09, 2009 4:28 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is a continuing blog regarding dangerous/annoying behaviors by motorists. Anyone who has done much bicycling has been buzzed. In a nutshell, buzzing is a motorist driving too close to a...

• Alabama Neck Injuries - Low Impact Car Accidents

  Jon Lewis | March 24, 2009 10:40 AM | 4 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Can your neck be injured in a car crash with a low impact? Most defense attorneys and insurance companies would have you believe that it's impossible. They make many arguments to jurors that it's...

• Steel Coils and Truck Accidents in Alabama

  Jon Lewis | March 12, 2009 3:40 PM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The Alabama legislature has finally come together to pass a bill with respect to steel coil loads. There have been numerous incidents where large trucks have lost their steel coil rolls on state...

• Overcoming the Contributory Negligence Defence in a Bicycle Accident case

  Danny Feldman | January 26, 2009 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This article follows up on the recent post regarding the use of rear reflectors in Alabama and the risks of not using same. Given that Alabama is a “pure contributory negligence” state...

• Bicycle Accidents and Contributory Negligence

  Danny Feldman | January 14, 2009 1:12 PM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Alabama is one of only two states in the union that continues to allow defendants to escape any liability pursuant to the doctrine of contributory negligence. In essence what this doctrine...

• Bicycle Accident - Insurance Protection

  Danny Feldman | January 06, 2009 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I have been meaning to write some articles that I think will be interesting to cyclists as it concerns their legal rights, however, and I’ve written about this before: easily, the most...

• Dangerously Distracted iPod Drivers

  Frank Ward | October 07, 2008 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For years now people have been discussing the dangers of drivers talking on cell phones. Some state and local governments now require drivers to use hand-free headsets. More recently the perils of...