traffic fatality
Progress is slow, but cell phone accidents take hits
Now that many people have been killed or injured due to cell phone accidents — killed by drivers being distracted while calling or texting — the inevitable but gallingly slow process of legislatively addressing the problem is proceeding.
In Texas alone this week, some progress has been seen in communities around Houston, as well as in [...]
Cell phone device may ease auto accidents
Finally, progress is being made in the face of mounting carnage on America’s roads due to driver distractions caused by cell phones. And it’s not what you might expect.
No, it’s not a new state law, such as those in New York and California, which bans using cell phones while driving without a headset that frees [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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.
Traffic deaths fall overall, yet motorcycle deaths rise
It sounded like such a good idea: Get 50 or more miles per $4 gallon, rather than a car’s 15 or 20 miles at best. That may mean riding a motorcycle, which gives you more gas bang for your buck than almost any other vehicle.
But with motorcycle riding on the rise, so are motorcycle accident [...]
Bus accident epidemic gets federal action
In a move that came too late for too many bus accident victims, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has halted approval of any new bus carriers until the feds get a fix on a problem that’s claimed 20 lives in two crashes in just the past week.
The government was responding to a problem created [...]
Casino tour bus accidents need a no-gamble bus accident lawyer
Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?
If so, you might want to try your luck in multiple ways. One would be planning a trip to a casino resort in order to gamble. Another would be to take such a trip via a chartered casino tour bus.
uch buses are operated in order to ferry large groups [...]
