Posts tagged Driving Safety

• Five More Die This Weekend From Collisions On Minnesota Roads

  Mike Bryant | November 09, 2009 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  There has been some tragic weekends this year on Minnesota roads. It was warm again, so did people start speeding up? Two people were killed Sunday morning when they were hit head on by a...

• Time For Arizona, Florida, and South Dakota To Protect Those Kids

  Mike Bryant | November 08, 2009 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  The safety of booster seats for 4 to 8 year olds is beyond question. As was pointed out by my partner Joe Crumley, there are many advantages to extending the protection. The Minnesota Legislature...

• Just Because It's Twitter, You Still Can't Text And Drive

  Mike Bryant | November 06, 2009 9:26 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Miscellaneous
  

  My partner Joe Crumley wrote a great piece about the dangers of texting. He, like a number of other writers here at the InjuryBoard, continue to point out the dangers of texting and driving. Go...

• Winter Driving: Can Standing Corn Make The Road Safer And Save Money?

  Mike Bryant | November 01, 2009 8:26 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last winter, the Minnesota Department of Transportation started a project of planting living snow fences of shrubs and prairie grasses along I-94 between Freeport and Albany. The project involved...

• Truck Spins Out And Kills Two in Otter Tail County

  Mike Bryant | October 31, 2009 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Friday afternoon, a truck lost control in the snow and hit an oncoming car head on. The crash occurred early Friday afternoon near the Otter Tail County town of French, about 6 miles west of Fergus...

• Why No Seatbelt On Rural Roads?

  Mike Bryant | October 18, 2009 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  There have been a number of blog posts about the national increased use of seat belts. Minnesota just reported the best numbers we have seen ever. This is great news and means more people making...

• Touring El Salvadorian Band Roll Van On Icy Roads

  Mike Bryant | October 12, 2009 6:57 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Saturday morning, a touring El Salvadorian band that was traveling by van across Jackson County lost control and rolled . The Minnesota State Patrol responded to the accident and found that due to...

• Rural Roads: More Dangerous?

  Mike Bryant | October 09, 2009 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety at the University of Minnesota has released a report that more people die each year in rural roadway accidents than in urban settings. Looking at the...

• Unsecured Ladder Leads to SUV Collision

  Mike Bryant | October 08, 2009 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Monday morning, a Byron woman was hospitalized after her SUV rolled into a ditch after swerving to miss a ladder that fell from a truck. The children with her were reportedly not injured. The police...

• Winter Driving is Upon Us

  Bret Hanna | October 05, 2009 10:56 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  As a semi tractor and trailer crested the summit in Parley's Canyon on Interstate 80 early this morning, it struck a patch of ice and the driver lost control. The truck rolled off the roadway, down...