Archive for January, 2010
New national ban on bus, truck texting fights distracted driving car crash crush
Like a car on freshly-inflated tires, the national momentum to outlaw texting while driving keeps on rolling. Today the U.S. Department of Transportation placed an immediate ban on interstate commercial bus and truck drivers fidgeting with texting gadgets when they should be paying full attention to the road.
After all, they’re getting paid to drive, aren’t [...]
As car crash accidents rise, more states ban distracted driving via texting, talking by cell phone
Jim S. Adler & Associates has campaigned for years against the cell phone accident dangers of talking or texting while driving. Now many state governments are seeing the light. Nineteen states already ban texting while driving, while 23 more are assessing such legislation. In fact, 34 states are considering proposed bills either to ban or [...]
Toyota, Lexus stuck accelerator in a car crash merits a defective product lawsuit
Toyota and Lexus cars have a defect, and as a result, Americans are dying. It’s a stuck accelerator pedal, which gets snagged on a floor mat. Braking alone will not stop a car that’s in full and constant acceleration, which is why scores of Americans have been injured or killed.
Last October, four people died near [...]
Graco baby stroller defective product recall spurred by children’s fingertip amputations
American babies are being harmed by strollers which are supposed to protect them. Instead, certain model numbers of Alano, Passage, Travel Systems and Spree Strollers are causing fingertip amputations or cut fingers in infants who put their digits in canopy hinges as strollers open or close.
Graco Children’s Products Inc. of Atlanta, which produces the strollers [...]
San Antonio car crash law would protect cyclists, pedestrians, ‘vulnerable road users’
In increasingly urban Texas, bicyclists and pedestrians are increasingly endangered. Yet Gov. Rick Perry last year vetoed a bill — passed overwhelmingly by the Senate and House — which would have offered more protection to cyclists and walkers on or near our roads.
Now some cities, such as Austin, are enacting the same law on a [...]
Red light cameras signal car accident controversy
The idea seemed good at first: Cities would install “red light cameras” at high-risk intersections, in hopes of slowing down traffic as a deterrent. Such cameras could capture irrefutable evidence that a car ran a red light, while displaying its license number. The drivers then could be ticketed by mail.
The only trouble was, traffic still [...]
FocusDriven to fight distracted driver car accident carnage
A woman in Grapevine, Texas, whose mother was killed by distracted driving has launched a national nonprofit group to fight distracted drivers and comfort their victims. Called FocusDriven, the organization was envisioned at last fall’s Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
About 6,000 Americans died last year due to [...]
PCs on car dashboards will bring ERs large crash hordes
Shamelessly picking profits over safety, Google and Intel Corporation are pushing computer screens for car dashboards. That’s right: Drivers near you soon will careen into you thanks to such infotainment “progress.”
The computer and Internet industry’s brazen irresponsibility is especially galling given the thousands of Americans who already are killed and maimed by distracted drivers fixated [...]
Injured seamen should keep up with the Jones Act, not Workers Compensation
Seamen on American waters perform difficult, physically taxing jobs which deserve respect. When they’re injured, such seamen have a special protection known as the Jones Act. Seamen also may seek financial recovery via Workers Compensation, or Workers Comp, but recovery through the Jones Act can be a far better strategy.
Indeed, settlements for injured seamen under [...]
Talking, texting, distracted driving in Texas school zones is illegal — sometimes
With 19 states and the District of Columbia now making it illegal to text while driving, you wonder when Texas will wise up. So far, only municipalities have passed such laws, the biggest being Austin. And the only state law on the books protects only school children by making it illegal to text or use [...]
