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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Almost all drivers feel drowsy driving is dangerous, but nearly a third admitted to driving under drowsy conditions in a recent survey.
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety‘s 2011 safety culture survey, 96 percent of drivers agree that driving while dangerous is unacceptable, but 32 percent say they had a hard time keeping their [...]
A new study shows older patients may drive more safely than younger folks after out-patient surgery and anesthesia care.
However, researchers also acknowledge the proficiency of older drivers may be better to begin with.
“With ambulatory surgical procedures becoming more common as well as the increased use of short acting anesthetics, our team recognized that patients may [...]
Today’s SUVs and pickups pose far less risk to people in cars and minivans than previous generations, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows.
Until recently, SUVs and pickups were more likely than cars or minivans of the same weight to be involved in crashes that killed occupants of other cars or [...]