How many cars in North Carolina pass a stopped school bus in a day? On Wednesday bus drivers were counting. And you can count on it that the number will be shocking. At the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, I wrote about…
No one’s more aware of March Madness than those of us here in basketball-crazy North Carolina. It’s been even madder with the storms that have relentlessly slammed us as winter has seemed to be winding up when it should be winding down. But speaking of…
As proposed legislation goes, House Bill 80 (yes, that is the number for the bill) aimed at raising the speed limit on Utah freeways to 80 mph, is winding its way through the legislative process toward becoming law at an impressive pace. The bill, introduced…
In a “zero fatalities” report issued yesterday, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) blames 71 of 219 roadway deaths in 2013 on people not wearing seat belts. That is disproportionately high percentage of the deaths that occurred on Utah roads last year. The silver lining…
I posted recently about a wonderful new device designed to prevent a driver from being able to use his or her mobile phone manually once the vehicle is started. I expressed concerns at the end of the post that the interlock system could be overridden…
There seems to have been a proliferaton of recent stories involving automobile, bus, tractor trailer truck, train, and boat crashes caused by distracted driving. There may be some very promising news on the distant horizon with respect to texting while driving an automobile. Clay Skelton,…
In Alabama, the minimum “bodily injury” insurance coverage is $25,000.00. So, what if another driver crashes into you and causes significant personal injury and only has the minimum coverage? Well, you can either hope the other driver is independently wealthy so that if you obtain…
Black boxes, formally known as event data recorders (“EDR”) are not just present in airplanes and tractor trailer trucks. About 96 percent of all new automobiles sold in the United States have EDRs. In April 2008, the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety…
It takes a tragic incident like this Guntersville crash for our legislators and politicians to realize it is ridiculous not to have a law prohibiting children, or ANYONE, from riding in the back of a pickup truck? Here is an article where our politicians are now…
So, I had a former client ask me to help him with a case he filed himself. He filed the case in Small Claims Court for $1,500.00. His daughter was driving his car, and was involved in a wreck which was not her fault. The…
There are doctors around the country making six to seven figure incomes per year doing medical-legal consulting for insurance companies. Here’s an example of a case in which such work occurs. A person injured in an automobile crash files a lawsuit. The insurance company attorney…
The trucking industry's main trade group, the American Trucking Association (ATA), opposes new driver hours of service (HOS) rules, which were published in December 2011 and would…
