Category: Car Accidents

One of the most basic rules of the road is to leave enough room between your car and the car ahead of you so that if the car ahead of you suddenly stops you have enough time to apply the brakes without running into the back of it. What that means is that if you…

Three individuals were killed in a tragic California crash recently. The head-on collision occurred on a Saturday morning. The car accident took place near Sacramento on Interstate 80. Police reported that a 20-year-old man was driving a car. An 18-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man rode in the vehicle with him. The car was eastbound…

In most cases when driving on California roads it is quite obvious who has the right-of-way. For example, we all know that drivers who have a green light at an intersection have the right-of-way over drivers who have a red light. Most of us also know that at a four-way stop the driver who reached…

When we think about distracted driving, we often think about the distractions that are caused by cellphones such as texting, emailing, surfing the Internet or talking. While, indeed, these are all dangerous distractions, a cellphone isn’t the only thing that takes a driver’s eyes off of the roads. In fact, something as simple as reaching…

California police often crack down heavily on drunk drivers over the holidays by participating in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, and this year is no different. As we discussed in a past article on our website, safety officials say that drunk driving incidents may increase by as…

A recent crash led to an injury and fatality in California recently. The car accident took place on a Friday in the area of Highway 41 in Fresno County, according to authorities. It began when a 19-year-old woman was driving her vehicle southbound on the highway at night, police said. The woman ended up going…

Welcome back. In our last post, we discussed how, despite strict laws against it in many states, the percentage of drivers who admit to emailing, surfing the Internet and checking social media is increasing while the percentage of drivers who admit to texting is staying roughly the same. Only the percentage of drivers who say…

Ever since cellphones became a staple in American culture we have seen an increase in car accidents caused by distracted driving. In response many laws have been enacted throughout the country in effort to convince people to put down their devices and drive. Unfortunately, though, this has proven to be an extremely difficult task, especially…

Even though a parking lot may seem safer than the street, this isn’t necessarily true as 20 percent of all car accidents occur in parking lots, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports. With Black Friday and the holiday shopping season quickly approaching, we wanted to take time this week to discuss the topic of…

Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, is next week. While Black Friday can be exhilarating, it can also be stressful, especially when car accidents occur in shopping center parking lots. Following a parking lot accident, it can be difficult to determine which driver was liable because not all drivers are…