semi truck accident
Hammer TV offers safety tips as ‘reality TV’ with meaning, message
Each day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones?
At Jim S. Adler [...]
A fatal traffic accident driver ‘lost’ control–or surrendered it?
Each day you hear or read it in news reports: A driver “lost control” of a vehicle, causing a deadly car accident crash. But apart from slick roads and sudden mechanical malfunctions, just how did the driver “lose” control? Or, did the driver not truly lose control, but rather surrender it — by driving too [...]
Houston fails to get uninsured drivers off roads, and you pay the price
Why is it so hard to collect a car accident insurance claim, even when you weren’t at fault? Because insurance companies are stingy–and are getting even stingier due to uninsured motorists on the road. When an uninsured driver is at fault in a car accident, then the claim goes to the innocent driver’s insurer, who [...]
Sleep apnea makes 18 wheeler drivers even more dangerous
It’s bad enough that 18 wheelers, semi trucks, big rigs and tractor trailers are slaughtering thousands of innocents on America’s roads and highways. Now we learn that our beef with the trucking business may include beefy drivers.
Sleep scientists at Harvard University have discovered a strong link between overweight drivers and apnea sleep, a sleep disorder [...]
A tractor trailer large truck kills large numbers in Texas-to-Mexico accident
Large passenger buses are inherently dangerous. Big rig trucks, semi trucks, 18 wheeler trucks or tractor trailers are even more so. When combined, how dangerous are they? You do the math.
The tragic numbers after a recent bus-truck crash in northeast Mexico were 11 bus passengers killed — including 10 United States and Canadian tourists — [...]
