accidents
Whether an ATV, UTV or ROV, a Yamaha Rhino accident can be deadly
Millions of Americans enjoy the rugged thrills of riding the little go-getters known as ATVs. But if you’re one of them, do you know what you drive? Is it an ATV — an all terrain vehicle – or perhaps a UTV, a utility terrain vehicle? And do you have legal protection if such a vehicle [...]
By design, Yamaha Rhino ATVs are accidents waiting to happen
How dangerous are Yamaha Rhino ATVs and other ATVs? How dangerous do you want them to be?
Indeed, danger and risk seem to be selling points for these highly accident-prone vehicles, whose wildly erratic and thrill-driven operation winds up killing and maiming thousands of Americans each year. In large part that’s because Yamaha Rhino and other [...]
California bus accident shows gamble in such travel
While buses in general can be as risky as trying to draw on an inside straight, casino tour buses can be an even worse bet.
In California Sunday, a casino tour bus taking passengers from Sacramento to a gambling den flipped over and rolled into a ditch, killing eight people and critically injuring at least 30 [...]
18-wheeler carnage is steady, but never ‘routine’
A problem with waking up Americans about the carnage on their roads and highways is that traffic tragedies, though they take an enormous toll, are incremental. Six die in Florida. Two more die in East Texas. It’s news, and it’s shattering to the victims’ immediate families, but in the broader news context of a given [...]
Callers, texters are slaughtering innocents
What will it take to get the message through to Americans that we are slaughtering each other on our roads, highways and train lines, and all for the sake of a phone call or a text message that could have waited?
Perhaps a catastrophic train wreck will be our wake-up call? Or perhaps school bus carnage? [...]
25 train victims may have died due to text-messaging
It’s bad enough that cell phone and text messaging distractions have meant many fatalities and serious injuries on America’s roads and highways. Now such driver distractions also may be to blame for up to 25 fatalities in a horrendous train collision in California.
A commuter train slammed into a freight train last Friday reportedly due to [...]
Hike driving age? Take a hike, some say, but stats don’t lie
Teens aren’t going to like it, but what’s to like about being dead? Spurred by the fact that 5,000 teen drivers die annually in traffic accidents — and are 10 times more likely to have a crash than drivers 30-59 years old — some are calling for raising the driving age.
In Texas, that age is [...]
Don’t let fall bring falls from a Yamaha Rhino ATV
Fall is coming, the air is cooling, and fall fun is in that air.
Just be sure your fall fun doesn’t lead to a fall — or other accident — involving an all terrain vehicle.
Small ATVs such as Yamaha Rhino ATVs are not road-worthy — in fact, they’re illegal to drive on Texas streets and highways. [...]
18 — as in 18-wheeler — can be an unlucky number
In many ways, driving is all about margin of error. Or in gambling terms, it’s about odds. When you drive defensively, you enhance your odds, along with the margin of error by you or another driver. If you tailgate, drive too fast, change lanes suddenly, cut off other cars and otherwise are reckless, your margin [...]
Drunk driving merits stronger reactions
When it comes to drunk driving, there’s little chance America’s judicial and law enforcement systems can overreact. Given the horrendous and senseless carnage on America’s roads, they can only react adequately, or they can underreact. But within the limits of the law, it’s highly doubtful they can overreact.
