18th November 2010
If you happen to get involved in a car accident, you are more likely to suffer from bodily injuries. In some car crashes and collisions, these injuries can sometimes be fatal. Statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show...
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18th November 2010
Since car accidents often involve negligent people, victims can recover damages by filing a lawsuit against the reckless or at-fault drivers.
According to lawyers, victims should be provided with legal remedies to recover these:
* Hospital expen...
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18th November 2010
Driving is a responsibility and not a privilege.
Under the law, drivers have a duty to use reasonable care to avoid harming anyone while on the road. Drivers owe their passengers, other motorists, pedestrians, as well as themselves and the state the fo...
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18th November 2010
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for the age group 2 to 14 years old.
The NHTSA, in its 2006 Children Traffic Safety Facts has also stated that every day in the United...
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17th November 2010
More than 31 percent of traffic fatalities in the US were caused by driving under the influence in 2008, according to a DUI statistics conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). With this finding, researchers estimated that 2...
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17th November 2010
Statistics show that teens are more likely to get into accidents compared to adult drivers. The accident statistics is often said to be caused by the teen’s lack of experience in driving and the overestimation of their driving skills.
Around 5,000 teen...
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17th November 2010
The importance of removing defective cars from the road is seen as a way of reducing motor vehicle accidents that have taken lives of many people.
Defects can kill car occupants by causing a road accident, or by making a survivable incident extremely d...
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16th November 2010
Physical injuries are not the only losses that victims may suffer as consequences of a car accident. Property loss - which often includes the damage sustained by a vehicle in an accident - is the next thing that an accident victim has to deal with.
Cla...
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