According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), there is an annual average of about 223,300 car fires in the United States. These fires result in approximately 329 civilian deaths and 1,221 civilian injuries. If you’ve been hurt or if your loved one has been…
New technology, such as electronic stability control and rollover airbags, may help prevent rollover accidents or the serious injuries that can occur when a rollover happens. However, rollover accidents still have a higher fatality rate than other types of car accidents. According to the United…
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for 15- to 20-year-olds, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Office of Highway Safety. In 2014, the most recent year for which final statistics are available, there were 23,679 motor vehicle accidents involving drivers under the…
There are a lot of reasons why you may need to talk on the phone while driving. You may have a work issue that needs resolving, a child who needs consoling, or a family member facing a scary medical diagnosis, for example. Yet, even in…
What if your car accident was not caused by another driver’s negligence, but instead by a defective or malfunctioning part of your car? What would you do then? How would you protect your recovery? What Can Go Wrong…and Who Could Be Liable Car accidents caused…
What if we could point to one factor as a cause of more than one-third of all traffic accidents and two-thirds of all fatal crashes? According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, we can identify that factor—and it is known as aggressive driving. What…