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Staying Alert While Driving
Staying Alert While Driving It doesn’t take long for driving to seem like it’s second nature to most of us. As the years go by, free of any accidents, we start to feel immune to our own poor driving habits and those of others. Unfortunately, chances of being in another accident still loom large. If you [...]
Continue reading Staying Alert While DrivingToyota Issues a New Recall for the Prius
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
It has not been a positive few weeks for Toyota. Recently, the company announced a massive recall of more than 2 million vehicles because of problems with the accelerator pedal. Now, just days later, the company is beginning a recall of its best-selling brand and most prominent model of recent times, the Prius. This represents [...]
Continue reading Toyota Issues a New Recall for the PriusVehicle Airbags Can Help You Avoid Injuries and Death
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
No one wants to lose beloved family members or friends simply because their car airbags malfunctioned. Yet highly skilled and inexperienced drivers alike continue to lose their lives this way. Vehicle airbags require vigilant care and maintenance if they’re to protect us from serious road accidents. If you’ve been injured in an accident when your car’s [...]
Continue reading Vehicle Airbags Can Help You Avoid Injuries and DeathThe Dangers of Late-Night Teen Driving
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Overview Far too many teens keep dying in nighttime car accidents. In fact, sixteen-year-old night drivers are twice as likely to die in fatal car crashes than their peers driving only during the day. Car accidents remain the “leading cause of death among American teens, [causing] more than one-third of all deaths of 16 to 18 [...]
Continue reading The Dangers of Late-Night Teen DrivingDistracted Driving: Avoiding Our Old-Fashioned Bad Habits
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
With the media currently paying so much attention to driving while texting or talking on our cell phones while behind the wheel, it’s far too easy for many of us to accidentally fall back into some of our former distracted driving habits. We may forget that many activities that prevent us from carefully watching the [...]
Continue reading Distracted Driving: Avoiding Our Old-Fashioned Bad HabitsTrends in Big Rig and Other Truck Accident Injuries and Fatalities
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Most drivers concentrate on improving safety skills tied to navigating around on their local streets and roads. However, far more time should be spent honing skills needed for running even brief errands on local (or interstate) highways. Big rigs and other large trucks pose special dangers to all drivers since their heavy weight can make [...]
Continue reading Trends in Big Rig and Other Truck Accident Injuries and FatalitiesAvoiding Accidents with Big Rigs
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
If you’ve traveled down many highways surrounded by big rigs, you’ve probably thought about your own mortality many times. While a number of responsible big rig drivers slide behind the wheel every day, many other large trucks are driven by road hogs who show little respect for the much smaller vehicles all around them. Although big [...]
Continue reading Avoiding Accidents with Big RigsFederal Judge in Sacramento Refuses to Dismiss Greyhound Lawsuits
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Safety on buses has always been an issue in terms of safety and legality in the United States, and this is particularly true on commercial bus lines such as Greyhound. The reason is that when bus accidents occur, several people tend to get seriously injured or worse, and one of the reasons is that [...]
Continue reading Federal Judge in Sacramento Refuses to Dismiss Greyhound LawsuitsReason Texting While Driving is Illegal is Reinforced in Morning Crash
Saturday, June 27, 2009
There are many traffic laws that people do not generally follow – passing on the right, speeding and talking on a cell phone without a hands-free device come to mind – and texting while driving is a recent addition to the ‘do nots’ of California driving. However, like the other laws mentioned, people continue [...]
Continue reading Reason Texting While Driving is Illegal is Reinforced in Morning CrashRubber-necking – Dangerous Activity to Avoid
Friday, June 12, 2009
We have all seen either an accident occur or the immediate aftermath of a crash, and it’s a natural human tendency to slow down and take a look at what’s happening. In common parlance, it’s known as ‘rubber-necking,’ which describes the manner in which drivers will stop or slow down their own vehicles to [...]
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