Distracted driving is a serious problem among all drivers. Specifically, use of cell phones to talk and text while behind the wheel causes thousands of accidents and injuries across the United States every year. Distracted driving is especially dangerous for commercial truck drivers, because the resulting accidents may potentially be significantly more dangerous and destructive …
How Defective Airbags Cause Injuries
Airbags are installed in motor vehicles to help save lives and prevent injuries in the case of an auto accident. Though airbags do successfully provide safety protections in hundreds of thousands of accidents every year, there are some instances when airbags do not function correctly and cause injuries to drivers and passengers. In some instances, …
Construction Zone Risks
Construction sites are inherently dangerous locations. The construction workers who work on the sites each day are required to wear heavy protective gear, such as helmets and steel-toed boots, to protect them from the many hazards possible on the site. Construction can go on for weeks or even months, and until the construction is finished, …
FMCSA Tips for Pedestrians
Large trucks are capable of causing tremendous damage and serious injury when they are involved in accidents. Semis can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds and can often travel at speeds of 70 miles per hour or more. If a tractor-trailer is involved in a collision with a pedestrian, the results could be devastating. When …
How Prior Medical Records Can Be Used as Evidence
After six years of steady declines, the number of traffic fatalities increased in the first nine months of 2012. A report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that 25,580 people died in auto accidents from January through September compared to 23,884 during the same period in 2011. Consulting a Clayton County attorney …
Feds Propose National Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse for Truckers
Truck drivers have a tremendous responsibility because of the very nature of their job. Often, they pilot 80,000-pound vehicles at highway speeds at mere feet from other drivers. In the event of an accident, the damage and injuries that result can be catastrophic, most often for drivers or occupants of other vehicles. It is no …
Federal Stopping Distance Standards for Large Trucks
Semi-trucks and other large commercial vehicles generally weigh several times what the average passenger vehicle weights. In addition to meaning that semi-trucks have the potential to cause significant damage and severe injury in the event of a collision, it also means that need much more room to come to a complete stop. Because of the …
Federal Regulations for Parking a Hazmat Truck in Georgia
Semi-trucks carry a wide variety of cargo around the country, including consumer products, vehicles, heavy equipment, and building materials. Some of these trucks are specially designed and operated to transport hazardous materials, also known as HAZMATs. HAZMATs can include substances like gasoline, corrosive materials, dangerous gases, or even nuclear waste. Because of the significant risk …
Signs You Should See a Doctor for a Head Injury
Many times, Americans bump their heads and think nothing of it. However, after any type of blow to the head, you should always pay attention for certain warning signs and symptoms that may indicate that you have suffered a traumatic brain injury. A traumatic brain injury is damage to the brain, such as a concussion, …
How Cell Phones Cause Accidents
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 21 percent of all auto accident injuries occur as a result of distracted driving. That adds up to an estimated 420,000 distracted driving accidents every year in the United States. The number one distracted driving behavior is using a cell phone while driving, either to talk, …
Trucking Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is the part of the Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry. Perhaps most importantly, the FMCSA regulates the safety performance for trucking companies in order to try to keep the highways free of truck accidents and protect other motorists on the highways from injury. The FMCSA’s …
Georgia Police Officer Fired for Second DUI
According to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 2,597 people were killed in United States traffic accidents in December 2010. Of those, 775 deaths involved alcohol-impaired drivers. A 2006 study by the NHTSA estimated that there is one drunk driving fatality in the United States every 30 minutes. Georgia’s Driving Under the …
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