According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, car accidents have claimed the lives of 234 people so far this year. In comparison to this same time last year, that’s an 11 percent increase in fatalities. The rise in traffic deaths is largely due to human error, such as distracted driving and excessive speed, which goes well […]
Brian Debelle
The adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” has perhaps never been more befitting an image then that of the mangled car that Amanda Kloehr was wrenched from after being buried by a tractor trailer in a 2008 car accident. The first emergency responder on the scene, a man with twenty years of experience, […]
Kiernan Hopkins
By 2015, the threat of distracted driving and education on the subject has made its way into the collective consciousness. A quick web search will reveal the massive amount of data circulating the internet such as this infographic on cell phone use by the Vancouver personal injury lawyers at the NW Injury Law Center that […]
Brian Debelle
Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue, the Chaffin Luhana Foundation is teaming up with five-time Paralympic medalist Stephani Victor to launch the Foundation’s first [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
It has been almost one full year since a school bus driver in Tennessee, James Davenport, was texting while driving when he swerved onto the other side of the highway and crashed into a second school bus. The school bus that James Davenport was operating was occupied by numerous children that he was responsible for […]
Kiernan Hopkins
Accidents involving trucks are occurring all too often in the United States and have become a serious problem in the state of California. Semi-trucks are involved in thousands of fatal crashes across the country each year, as well being the cause of devastating traumatic injuries – changing the lives of countless people [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
Pedestrians and cyclists in the United States are suffering deaths by the hands of distracted drivers at an increasing number. A new study released by the Public Health Reports claims that pedestrian deaths caused by distracted driving have increased by over 50% in a five year period. The amount of cyclists killed by distracted driving [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
You maybe surprised to hear or in this case read in this article that in the year 2011 the number of automobile accidents involving distracted driving, including texting while driving, more then doubled the number of drunk driving accidents. kamagra soft tab So why is there so much more attention and support given to trying to put [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
A driver of a Cadillac sedan, who, according to investigators, was distracted by his ringing cell phone, caused an fatal accident in Porterville, California. The fatal distracted driving crash occurred Saturday night. The driver’s cell phone had apparently fallen, and when the driver searched for it, he veered into oncoming traffic. [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced to one year in prison after his texting while driving led to a crash that caused fatal and serious injuries. Prosecutors allege that Deveau, who was only 17 years old at the time of the accident, was texting when his car crossed the center line of the road, swerved into […]
Kiernan Hopkins