Corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards are regulations in the United States intended to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles. The federal government’s fuel economy mandates may lead to fewer cars being equipped with spare tires, according to the Wall Street Journal. Spare tires are…
As a Virginia (VA) and West Virginia (WV) personal injury attorney, as well as a father I know that personal injury cases involving children are very different than adult cases. A lot of emotions play out when a child is injured or killed due to someone’s negligence. Also, there may be long-lasting medical consequences from…
A new study finds the use of any cell phone, hands-free or bluetooth, can be distracting enough to cause a car crash. According to PCmag.com, the Governors Highway Safety Association combined a decade’s worth of findings about the causes of car accidents. Shockingly, distractions caused by cell phones accounted for between 15 and 25 percent of all accidents….
Just published Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle data show that the number and severity of all types of accidents involving cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, pedestrians and bicycles decreased between 2005 and 2009. Even as fewer drivers, passengers and other people who share VA roads and highways declined, though, individuals who did become involved in wrecks…
My colleague John C. has posted a blog on our Virginia and Carolina wrongful death site about how a motorcyclist was killed over the July 4th weekend in an accident with a pick-up truck in Albemarle County, Virginia (VA). Tragically this crash on July 2, 2011, killed a motorcyclist from Crozet . DM