Posts tagged honolulu

• Hawaii Safety First; The best graduation gift may be a motorcycle helmet

  Wayne Parsons | May 24, 2012 2:27 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Hawaii is a great place to ride motorcycles and mopeds. But it is also a place where the roads are crowded, drivers are distracted (now more than ever with rampant cell phone use resulting in...

• GM Recalls 4,304 cars with an airbag defect

  Wayne Parsons | May 24, 2012 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Reuters reports that GM is recalling a lot of cars over an airbag safety issue. The Huffington post reports the story today: Chevrolet Malibu Eco Recall: GM Recalling 4,304 Cars Over Airbag Issue...

• Important tips for Hawaii high school graduation month: don't ride in the back of a puck-up truck!

  Wayne Parsons | May 15, 2012 4:29 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We have to wear seatbelts and we can't drive and use a handheld cell phone. I'll buy that. Those are good rules. Where did they come from? A combination of common sense and our elected...

• Wayne's Top 10 List for Saturday: Why do they speed?

  Wayne Parsons | April 29, 2012 3:11 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On the H-1 in Honolulu there is a short stretch of freeway between Punahou and Kahala Mall where cars battle for position and road rage is rampant. The distance of this road rage zone is about 3...

• Rachel's Wish Lives On

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As a big support of the public safety and prevention organization KidsAndCars.org, the story today on CNN about Rachel is worth talking about. Rachel was killed in an automobile crash when she was...

• What is wrong with the Stryker hip implant?

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 3:02 AM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Stryker Hip Implants, first introduced in 2003, have come under fire by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following complaints of squeaky ceramic hip joints, among other problems. ...

• Fire safety in the home and cars prevents injury and death.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2011 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two news stories reminded me of the perils of fire in our homes and cars. A truck caught fire on the H-1 Freeway at the Kaneohe and Aiea off ramp heading east at 7:40 am on Friday, August 12, 2011,...

• Texas medical injuries mount as malpractice laws protect negligent doctors and hospitals.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2011 2:50 PM | 22 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today I report the sad saga of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. As reported by Jamie Stengle of the Associated Press in Forbes, Feds: Parkland conditions a 'threat' to patients a Texas...

• What if the other driver doesn't have enough insurance?

  Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2011 3:43 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If your attorney told you that the other driver has no inurance and that you cannot collect money from a deadbaet: read on. If your lawyer told you that the other driver has a minimum inurance...

• Another Pedestrian Dies in Honolulu - why?

  Wayne Parsons | August 03, 2011 5:04 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Pedestrian deaths area chronic problem in Hawaii. I have written extensively on the subject in the past and today another death has renewed my interest. KITV News Now reported today...