Posts tagged Birmingham

• Its no "accident" when you run over bicyclists after drinking all night

  Danny Feldman | August 25, 2009 12:08 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three cyclists recently were hit and injured in Baldwin County by a 28 year old driver who apparently had been out drinking all night and had yet to go to bed. See article at...

• cell phone use while driving

  Danny Lehane | August 05, 2009 2:51 PM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There are several major thoroughfares in the Birmingham metro area. Interstate 59 runs north and south from the Alabama/Georgia border into Mississippi, ending in Slidell, Louisiana. Interstate 65...

• Does High Performance Driving Lead to Accidents?

  Jon Lewis | July 08, 2009 7:36 PM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the last couple of weeks, the Birmingham News has run an article on the Porche Driving School along with several articles covering wrecks leading the the death of several drivers and passengers....

• Harrassing a cyclist is dangerous and unlawful

  Danny Feldman | May 07, 2009 4:31 PM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is the 6th and last blog in a series of blogs concerning annoying and dangerous motorist behaviors. The last behavior that will be discussed is pure harassment. Obviously this is an intentional...

• Following too close behind a cyclist is dangerous

  Danny Feldman | April 23, 2009 4:34 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is the fifth in a six part series on driving behaviors that are annoying or dangerous to bicyclists. Previously covered were buzzing, the right hook, pulling out too close in front of the...

• Other Driving Behaviors that are Dangerous to Cyclists

  Danny Feldman | April 16, 2009 10:48 AM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This blog is a continuing series of driving behaviors that are dangerous to cyclists. A driver turning or pulling out in front of a cyclist - often occurs because the driver simply does not realize...

• Quick Right Hand Turns in Front of Cyclists are Dangerous

  Danny Feldman | April 15, 2009 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is another in a continuing series of blogs of annoying/dangerous motorist behaviors. Overtaking a cyclist and then making a quick right hand turn in front of the cyclist, sometimes referred to...

• 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 Truck Accidents - New Law

  Jon Lewis | March 27, 2009 6:57 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Alabama has finally passed a law to protect the public and State highways from future steel coil incidents. According to the Birmingham News, T. J. Willings, of the Alabama Trucking Association,...

• 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...