When people think of a head injury that accident victims sustain, they usually assume that the injury is an obvious one. For example, when a person is in a bad car accident and their head smashes the windshield or someone who falls and suffers a heavy blow to their head. But there is another type…
A recent report issued by the American Automobile Association (AAA) says that at least 63,000 truck accidents could be avoided each year if vehicles were equipped with the right truck safety technology. The report, Leveraging Large Truck Technology and Engineering to Realize Safety Gains, used data from the more than 400,000 truck crashes that occurred…
An 18-year-old lost her life in a head-on collision on I-40 near Asheville, North Carolina (NC), during the early morning hours of October 2, 2017. The deadly crash happened at around 2:20 am close to the Hendersonville Road exit. According to the Asheville Police Department, a pickup truck driver from Florida was traveling…
Honda has reached a $605 million economic loss settlement which will cover up to 16.5 million vehicles that were built with the defective Takata airbags. This settlement is meant to cover different types of economic damages caused by the airbags, such as consumers overpaying for vehicles that had substandard or defective airbags. It also covers…
One of the most devastating injuries an accident victim can sustain is a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The injury itself can have irreversible and life-long effects. There can be mood alterations, resulting in either reduction in motivation or an increase in aggression. There can also be damage to a person’s cognitive capacity, such as the…