For years in Virginia, cars and trucks have been pieced by X-Lite guardrails during crashes. The guardrails are meant to be a safeguard, but the guardrails themselves are causing severe and fatal injuries. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has decided...

Determining the party legally responsible for an accident can sometimes be a complicated process. Usually, it is based on whether they were negligent in the lead-up to your accident. It may seem straightforward that the party that caused your accident must compensate...

According to estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), about six million vehicle accidents occur each year in America. That adds up to approximately one car crash every six seconds. Over the past decade, the rate of car accident deaths...

You know that if a driver negligently hits you while you are on your motorcycle and causes injuries, you can bring a lawsuit against them to recover the costs of your injuries. But what happens if you were not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident? If failing...

Whether you visit a coworker in a large apartment complex or swing by your local big box store to pick up some paper towels, you don't expect a visit to public facilities to end in injury. Like most people, you presume that the property owner or business manager will...

One potential upside of having so much less traffic on the roads in 2020 should have been a decrease in fatal accidents. After all, these stats tend to decline in normal years, so you’d assume that fewer cars would mean fewer accidents and deaths. However, recent...

It can be hard enough to make sense of an automobile insurance policy when you are shopping around for one. If you are dealing with the pain or stress of a major car crash, analyzing your insurance policy and coverage can be even more difficult. Many people are...

Summer is here, and that brings longer daylight hours and warm weather, and -- like clockwork -- an increase in traffic fatalities involving teenage drivers. Dubbed the “100 deadliest days” of the year, the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day has historically...

A new report highlights what many people have known for a long time; SUVs make our streets more dangerous. These oversized vehicles make the roads hazardous for everyone, especially those out on foot or on bicycles. SUVs have been the fastest growing market sector in...

We’ve all done it at one time or another – gotten behind the wheel of a car when we are not fully alert. Maybe it’s been an especially tough week at work, or you work a night shift. Or one of your kids was up all night sick. Perhaps you and a loved one have been...