With over 45,000 deaths each and every year in America caused by auto collisions it can make you think twice about the safety of getting behind the wheel. In fact, the average adult who spends fifty years of their lifetime driving has a one in a hundred chance of dying in a car accident. Of […]
Sounds silly, right? After all, humans can be accident-prone, but surely not a hunk of metal in the form of an automobile? There are all sorts of reasons that auto collisions occur, with the large majority of those being traceable to some sort of driver error. Drivers get fatigued, distracted, reckless or negligent. They drive […]
Rollover accidents are definitely among the most deadly of all vehicle accidents, although rollovers are relatively rare. Most rollovers are single car accidents and while any vehicle certainly has the capacity to roll over, it is much more common among vehicles with a high center of gravity. Between three and four percent of car accidents […]
Over 5,000 pedestrians are killed each year after being struck by a vehicle with another 70,000 or so suffering serious injury. Pedestrians are simply no match for a several-thousand pound car made of metal and glass. Unfortunately, even the best driver can end up hitting a pedestrian and it is a frightening and potentially serious […]
Bus accidents are becoming a cause for concern as we hear more and more about them in the news although in the grand scheme of things bus accidents with fatalities are comparatively unusual in the U.S. Most bus crashes occur in metropolitan areas and at relatively low speeds. Approximately 22,000 victims sustain minor to grave […]
Motorcycle collisions are among the most dangerous type of accidents with over 3,000 fatalities and 50,000 injuries among motorcyclists in the United States each year. Those motorcyclists who routinely use their cycle as their primary form of transportation are thirty-seven times more likely to die in a collision than automobile passengers or drivers. The reason […]
Automobile collisions are responsible for about three million injuries each year and over 43,000 fatalities. Of these crashes nearly 9,000—or approximately percent—are side-impact accidents. Side-impact accidents are also known as T-bone crashes by virtue of the fact that when one vehicle hits another on the side it resembles a “T.” The location of a side-impact […]
Over the past twenty years, the number of trucking accidents has increased by over 20%. For those who are victims accidents involving large commercial trucks, the question liability is often much more complex than in an accident involving passenger vehicles only. Many more “players” exist in a trucking accident, and getting the necessary information can […]
A fatal pickup truck accident in Texas this weekend may be the most deadly single vehicle accident in history. The pickup truck was transporting 25 people – ten squeezed into the cab of the pickup and 15 in the bed of the truck when it crashed into two trees. An officer who investigated the F-250 […]
The news in recent year regarding Mississippi motor vehicle accidents rates has generally been positive with a steady decline annually in both fatality rates and the number of deaths per mile driven. This downward trend is so positive that last year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that traffic related fatalities had reached […]
