Car seats save lives, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. In a Raynham collision between a sedan and a pick up truck that killed the driver of the sedan, a two year old passenger survived because she was in a car seat, according to the Raynham Fire Department. The accident, which happened on South Main Street in Raynham, resulted in the wrongful death of the child’s mother.
Read MoreAs followers of this blog know, the panel studying the death of Princess Di in Paris in 1997 said that the failure to wear a seat belt was a substantial contributing factor to her death. After all, the only person who survived the limousine crash was wearing a seat belt. With prom season coming, Boston personal injury lawyer Neil Burns urges Massachusetts’ teenage drivers to drive safely, avoid any and all alcohol before driving, and follow the zero texting and cellphone law. But on an every day basis, wear a seat belt in Massachusetts.
Read MoreAccording to reports about motor vehicle safety in Massachusetts, Route 2 in Concord will finally get an upgrade. The highway has a full elbow turn at what is known as Crosby’s Corner.
Read MoreThe Kentucky legislature passed a law forbidding lawyers from soliciting victims injured in motor vehicle accidents for the first thirty (30) days. While the law is intended to protect victims of motor vehicle collision, the nominal fine of $1,000 may not deter attorneys when there are wrongful death accidents or serious truck accidents.
Read MoreIt’s springtime in Massachusetts. This means Red Sox, students going wild, and motorcycles coming out of storage. Unfortunately, there were 4,955 people killed on motorcycles in the US in 2008. There were 41 Massachusetts motorcycle fatalities in crashes in that year.
Read MoreIn our personal injury law blog we normally refrain from filing articles about individual collisions, choosing to focus on studies or trends we see, and avoiding the sensational and tragic. However, as a Massachusetts wrongful death attorney and auto accident trial lawyer, we felt the need to report on a Haverhill collision which resulted in the death of a 55-year-old Danville man, with injuries to his passenger who was treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital after the crash. News reports from the Lawrence Eagle Tribune indicate that a 17-year-old was driving while texting on River Street in Haverhill last month. The district attorney’s office charged the youth with Massachusetts motor vehicle homicide and texting while driving in Massachusetts.
Read MoreAccording to news we received this morning from Washington, D.C., United State Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was issued a traffic ticket by the U.S. Park Police for following too closely when his motor vehicle struck the vehicle in front of him on his way to work. The collision caused a “chain reaction” with four cars and the justice’s car being towed from the scene. Most importantly, no one reported personal injuries at the time.
Read MoreIn a study of truck accidents involving fatalities, a multiplicity of statistics show interesting data. We reviewed the Federal Trucks involved in Fatal Accidents data complied by the Center for National Truck and Bus Statistics at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute Fatal Accidents database. We intend here merely to highlight some of the data.
Read MoreAccording to data compiled by the National Transportation Safety Board, Massachusetts does not fare well in achieving the minimal requirements to reduce drunk driving and prevent Massachusetts driving accidents.
Read MoreBoston traffic is bad. Commuter congestion is increasing in Boston. Boston was ranked fourth among large urban areas in “wasted hours” with 48 hours wasted by commuters in Boston 2009. The average American commuter spent 34 extra hours per year commuting in 2009, verses 14 hours in 1982.
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