Posts tagged trucking accidents

• Student driver not liable for single car crash

  Jamie Sheller | January 07, 2008 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A Judge in a recent New York case, found that a student driver who crashed into a parked car while takinge her road test was not liable to her passenger, the driving inspector. In Yetemian v. Vega, 28045-03, the court found that the driving instructor assumed the risk of injury when he rode in the car of an unlicensed driver. The inspector sustained injuries that have left him unable to work...

• Cell Phones Increase Accident Risk

  Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a Virginia nonprofit organization, studied the cell phone records of 500 drivers involved in accidents in Perth, Australia from 2002-2004 and discovered that drivers using cell phones are four times more likely to have a serious accident.Cell-phone records in the United States are not public record, so the IIHS sent investigators to Perth, where...