Car Accidents

While driving recently, you slammed on your brakes to avoid hitting the car in front of you. Fortunately, a car accident did not occurred and no one was hurt. However, such near misses are instructional, because they reveal underlying attention-related problems or bad...

Perhaps a careless teenager texting on her cellphone veered into your lane, clipping your car; or maybe a pickup truck soared through an intersection and t-boned you, totaling your car and hurting your passengers. In either case, in addition to obtaining fair...

Sure, we’ve all heard the complaints about female drivers. And how many of the jokes deride women for driving causing car accidents. Maybe some of us have even gone so far as to repeat one or more of the jokes ourselves. Here’s a sample one-liner that just about sums...

Autonomous vehicles are coming, there’s no getting around that.  But there may be some wrinkles – actually bumps in the road would be a better term – before human driving becomes a thing of the past. Google’s version of the driverless car has received the most...

Let’s say you’ve been in a fender-bender.  Nothing serious, just some damage to your car and the car of the guy who just hit you at an intersection.  Of course, there is that slight pain you feel in the back of your neck, but that’s probably from the way you slept...

Try as we might, it is impossible to eliminate entirely the risk of getting into a car accident.  No matter how careful you are, no matter how well you practice defensive driving, there are circumstances, like having your vehicle struck from behind while stopped at a...

A jury in the small, upstate New York town of Bainbridge has awarded the plaintiffs damages in the sum of $150 million for the loss of their 4-year old son in a 2012 car accident.  The youngster was being driven to a sports lesson when the 1999 Jeep Cherokee in which...