Posts tagged accident

• Safety Tips to Prevent Bicycle Accident Injuries

  Staff Writer | October 13, 2006 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Over half a million riders suffer bicycle accident injuries that require hospital visits every year. About 15 percent of those go to the hospital with head injuries. I ran across an article from a Massachusetts newspaper that offered some simple safety tips for avoiding injuries while riding:Every time anyone gets on a bike, they should wear a helmet, even for a short trip.Parents should set a...

• Mobileye AWS: Color Coded Nagging on your dashboard

  Ed Smith | October 13, 2006 1:35 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A new mobile warning system from Mobileye has a color coded warning system which gives an audible and visual warning if a driver gets too close to the car in front. It will also let you know if you drift out of your lane. Mom, if you can't be in the car with your teen driver, this sounds like a great way to encorage safe driving from afar...Photos within.

• Car-Truck Accident Claims Newark Resident

  Staff Writer | October 12, 2006 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Newark man was killed Wednesday when his Honda drifted into oncoming traffic and was hit head-on by a big rig coming the other direction. Twenty-three year-ole Paul Satele was remembered by family and friends as a hard worker who had just taken an additional job to help provide for his family. He was also a huge Raiders fan. Read more about the car accident.

• Traffic.com finds traffic jams fast

  Ed Smith | October 11, 2006 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A new website, www.traffic.com. gives real time traffic reports on major Sacramento Freeways. It show Jam Factor trends and traffic hotspots as well as interactive traffic maps and e-mail alerts. A great site to bookmark beforesetting out on that 3 day vacation.

• Big Rig Crash snarls I-5 Traffic in Elk Grove

  Ed Smith | October 11, 2006 9:24 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An early morning truck crash in Elk Grove on Wednesday played havoc with early morning traffic. At 3:22 AM, the truck slammed into the center rail north of Laguna Boulevard. All southbound lanes were blocked for several hours.The cause of the accident was not immediately known.See the following article for an excellent review of causes of trucking accidents.

• 9 injured in separate Sacrmamento Hit and Run Accidents

  Ed Smith | October 11, 2006 3:07 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the past week, 9 Sacramentans were injured in 2 separate hit and run accidents. Many of my clients are unaware that even if the hit and run driver injuring the innocent party leaves the scene in a hit and run accident.they may still have insurance coerage under their own uninsured motorist automobile insurance.In the first accident, a pedestrian was struck last Friday approximately 7:15PM,...

• Concussions in Children

  Ed Smith | October 11, 2006 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Recently, my office handled a case where a young high school freshman suffered a concussion which seriously affected his life. A concussion, also called a "mild traumatic brain injury", results when the soft tissues of the brain are shifted and grind against the hard bones of the skull. Concussions are graded in three clases.In a grade 1 concussion, the child does no lose consciousness, but may...

• Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury on the rise

  Ed Smith | October 10, 2006 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Many times, as demonstrated by a recent case in this office, people with traumatic brain injuries (also known as concussions) are noted in initial emergency room records to be "Alert", "oriented" and ""responsive and coherent". They may have no obvious signs of injury abd CAT scans can be negative. Nonetheless, at varying intervals after their accident, such people encounterdifficulties in...

• Deadly Crash Kills Marysville Family of Six

  Ed Smith | October 06, 2006 3:25 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Witnesses recall a horrific crash on Highway 70 Near Olivehurst involving a suspected drunk driver. On 9/16/06, a Mother, Father, thier 3 year old and six moth old sons and the womans parents were returning from a baptism when the suspected drunk driver clipped thier Suburban and caused them to slam into a tree. Five of the six victims died at the scene and the father died on arrival at...

• Brain Injuries Treated by Female Hormones

  Ed Smith | October 06, 2006 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Treatment with progesterone, a well-known hormone that prepares the womb for pregnancy, safely reduces the risk of death and disability in people who suffer a traumatic brain injury, new research suggests. Researcher Dr. David W. Wright and colleagues have noticed that the advantages of progesterone over other treatments are that it enters the brain quickly, it is safe to use, easy to administer...