Allow me to go full spoiler right from the jump. Distracted driving kills because it takes your eyes off the road ahead, disengages your brain from the complicated task of controlling a car or truck, and, often, causes you to remove your hands from the steering wheel. Studies show that a distraction of as…
A semi-truck barrels down a rural highway at 60 mph. The driver, acting more like he was sitting on his couch at home instead of behind the wheel of a 40-ton vehicle, reaches for the cell phone he just dropped. Moments later, the tractor-trailer slammed into the back of a school bus that stopped to…
You won’t get two lines into a driver’s manual or driver safety lecture before you encounter the term “defensive driving.” Expecting other motorists to make mistakes and staying prepared to respond appropriately definitely prevents crashes, avoids injuries and save lives. The same benefits follow from defensive biking. During 2019, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles…
Sometimes you have to laugh. Even as a personal injury and wrongful death attorney who has represented victims of drunk drivers since the mid-1980s, I still chuckle when remembering the story about a man who was found passed out drunk and behind the wheel of a pickup truck with its motor running in the parking…
Multivehicle pileups and head-on collisions make headlines. Single-vehicle crashes fill up emergency rooms. As much as people rightly worry about negligent and reckless drivers crashing into them after running red lights, failing to slow down and smashing into them from behind when traffic backs up on the highway, or driving drunk, the large majority of…