Posted: August 22, 2019 |Categories: News
Fatalities in head-on auto accidents are second only to the fatalities caused by intersection crashes. There are two primary ways in which head-on accidents occur. A driver crosses over a double line into oncoming traffic or a driver travels the wrong way down a roadway or interstate. Head-on crashes typically involve high speeds and tremendous […]
Posted: August 21, 2019 |Categories: News
On Monday, December 17th, 2018, three people were killed aboard an Amtrak commuter train near Olympia, Washington. That incident was the deadliest railway incident since eight people were killed during an Amtrak derailment in Pennsylvania in 2015. Passengers dying aboard trains in railway accidents are becoming increasingly rare. In all of 2016, only one person […]
Posted: August 19, 2019 |Categories: News
Under New York law, any persons involved in an accident must stop at or as near the scene as possible and exchange information with the other party. If either party contacts the police, all parties must wait for them to arrive. Leaving the scene of an accident can result in numerous fines and penalties, depending […]
Posted: August 16, 2019 |Categories: News
While head-on collisions with another vehicle and T-bone crashes cause traumatic and even catastrophic damages and injuries, one in five crashes are single-vehicle crashes. More than 8,000 people a year die in single-vehicle rollover crashes each year in the United States. Run off-road single-vehicle crashes account for approximately 70% of all fatal single-vehicle crashes. The […]
Posted: August 8, 2019 |Categories: News
The Schoharie limousine crash was the deadliest transportation-related disaster in the United States since the 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash outside Buffalo. It was the deadliest road disaster since a 2005 bus fire in Wilmer, Texas killed 23. 22 people total were killed, including the driver and two pedestrians. The limousine involved in the […]
Posted: August 7, 2019 |Categories: News
All 50 states and Washington, D.C. make it illegal for a person to drive with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08% or greater. In New York, many factors go into what penalties a person may face if convicted of a DWI. If a driver intoxicated by alcohol or other drugs causes an accident that involves injury, […]
Posted: August 6, 2019 |Categories: News
Since 1990, there have been more than 900 deaths in the United States where children have been left in hot cars. On average, 38 children die this way every year. In the past week alone, four children have died in hot cars. Two were a set of twins in the Bronx, a Florida toddler who […]
Posted: August 5, 2019 |Categories: News
Long before the Wright brothers made their famed first flight in North Carolina, people had been taking to the skies in hot air balloons. Hot air balloons have been in use since 1783 and have long been a popular method of aerial tourism. While traveling in a hot air balloon is relatively safe, some of […]
Posted: August 1, 2019 |Categories: News
It’s summertime and that means one thing for many people: hot weather. According to a 2018 study published in the journal Temperature, an average of 37 children die in the United States every year. Their cause of death is usually heat stroke due to being left in hot vehicles. The study also looked at how […]
Posted: July 26, 2019 |Categories: News
Motorcycle deaths were down almost 300 in 2017 from 2016, representing a 5.6% decrease in fatalities. While this is a good trend, a person is still 28 times more likely to be killed while riding a motorcycle than in a passenger vehicle. Alcohol was a factor in a quarter of all fatal motorcycle accidents in […]