Automobile Accidents

• What Damages Are You Legally Entitled To Under Oklahoma Law

  Jeremy Thurman | August 02, 2009 12:03 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Have you ever wondered what the law entitles you too in the event you are harmed as the result of another in an automobile accident? As we have frequently discussed, traffic collisions result in a...

• Texts While Driving Even More Dangerous Than Originally Thought

  Rick Shapiro | August 01, 2009 11:22 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  Texting while driving increases the risk of a crash much more than previous studies have originally found with motorists who are taking their eyes off the road longer than they do when talking or...

• Review of Traffic Trends - 40,000 People Die Yearly on our Roads

  Jeremy Thurman | August 01, 2009 10:41 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I recently have been reviewing “Traffic Safety Facts 2005” compiled together by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”). I’ve been discussing...

• A Red Light Means Stop

  Bret Hanna | August 01, 2009 8:01 PM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT

  Utah traffic engineers report that the number of motor vehicle accidents caused by drivers ignoring traffic signals has almost doubled since 2007. That is more than 2,000 accidents caused by those...

• Victim in fatal Norfolk DUI crash had hopes to become a flight nurse

  Rick Shapiro | August 01, 2009 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  More details have emerged about one of the two people killed in a Norfolk (VA) crash a week ago. Lauren Kok, 22, was a nurse vacationing in Virginia Beach when she and three other passengers...

• Distracted Driving-Danger on Our Roads: Watch out for the Bagpipe Guy!

  Mark Bello | August 01, 2009 1:33 PM | 5 CommentsVoices

  Many InjuryBoard members have posted blogs about the new and dangerous trend of texting while driving. 14 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books, banning this practice. Most...

• Injury lawyer Doug Landau supports the STANDUP Act teen driving law so that 5,000 teenagers won’t die in car crashes this year

  Doug Landau | August 01, 2009 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  New legislation will create safer roads for teenagers, one state at a time. The STANDUP Act is a comprehensive approach to graduated drivers licensing (GDL) that has already reduced injury and...

• Major Road Construction Is Backing Up The States Roads: Don't Add To It

  Mike Bryant | August 01, 2009 11:40 AM | 4 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  I've been spending a lot of the summer in start and stop traffic. There have been one lane shutdowns along I-94, which have been doubling the trip time from St Cloud to the Twin cites. Sure, it can...

• Head-On Collision outside of Hesperia Kills One Man and Seriously Injured a Child

  Devon Glass | August 01, 2009 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  8-year-old Elizabeth Sied was transported by helicopter to Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in critical condition after a vehicle driven by Bruce Hallowell crossed the center line of Maple Island...

• What Should A Town Do When The Lights Go Out?

  Mike Bryant | August 01, 2009 9:08 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  I ran across a very interesting editorial from the Marshall Independent recently. The issue was what a town ought to do when the power goes out and street lights go out. The suggestion was that...