Some of the most simple, everyday items are designed for our safety. These include seatbelts, knife handles and crosswalk buttons. We usually don’t even think about them as we use them, so they’re not hard to overlook. But anyone who has ever been in a car accident can tell you that a few crucial items [...]
The sudden impact and jolting forces experienced in today’s car accidents often cause severe back injuries of various types.
Serious Florida car accidents in which the victim sustains traumatic injuries can be physically debilitating, as well as financially and emotionally devastating. You may be worried about how you are going to pay for extensive medical bills [...]
Florida’s traffic fatality rate decreased to its lowest rate on record in 2010, according to the most recent statewide traffic crash statistics report.
The overall fatality rate dropped to 1.25 deaths for every 100 million miles vehicles traveled in 2010 while the total number of statewide traffic deaths decreased 4.6 percent from 2,565 in 2009 to [...]
Many traffic rules vary from state-to-state: wearing a helmet, placement of children, even chatting on a cell phone can be illegal once you hit the state border.
Many of these laws or rules are in place to avoid Florida car accidents (such as age restrictions and drunk driving laws), or to reduce the injuries and deaths [...]
Car accidents seem to be on the rise in many states, and there are countless reasons for this. One of the biggest problems that people face on the roadways is distracted driving. Even though you might be a conscientious driver, countless others on the road are driving without paying full attention to their surroundings. Perhaps [...]
Car accidents are a daily occurrence, but many people believe it could never happen to them. No one goes out in the morning with thoughts of getting into an accident running through their mind. However, accidents can and do happen all the time, and that means that you have to pay extra attention when you [...]
When we think of vehicle accidents, most of us imagine dark nights, high speeds, and pouring rain. We often forget that accidents can happen in the middle of the day, a block or two from our homes and be caused by something out of the ordinary.
Senior drivers are at increased risk for daytime accidents. While [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board has called for a nationwide cell phone ban for drivers, spurred by the horrific findings of its probe into a 2010 fatal text messaging crash.
“It is time for all of us to stand up for safety by turning off electronic devices when driving,” NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said last week [...]
Driving while talking on a cell phone has become the No. 1 safety problem on roads and highways, a new survey shows.
Not far behind was texting while driving. Together, text messaging and cell phoning drew almost 40 percent of the responses.
Separately, both problems outweighed last year’s main concern, which was speeding and aggressive driving, according [...]
More than 50 percent of adult drivers in the United States admit to talking on a non hands-free cellphone while behind the wheel, a new poll shows.
But that’s not the only thing distracting drivers these days. A new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll shows that 86 percent of drivers are eating and drinking; 41 percent are setting [...]