Image via Wikipedia You’ve probably heard that cell phone are dangerous when someone is driving. Distractions of any kind when driving are dangerous. Don’t even think about texting when driving! “Death by Cell Phone” is the title of a new billboard advertisement the National Safety Council launched. A wrongful death case I had not that…
You remember from school classes or tests that you didn’t want to take. This is a post that I didn’t want to write. A friend’s father was killed in a crash in another state last night. One minute he was here and the next minute, life forever changed. No more conversations or holidays to share….
This is Part II in the series which I previously started. I cover legal aspects in my book, “The Seven Deadly Sins That Can Wreck Your Alabama Injury Claim” which you can order for free by clicking here. I will cover some of the legal aspects later in this series. Today, I want to convey…
Haley Scroggins, a student at Prattville Junior High School, died from injuries. The accident occurred at the intersection of Autauga 42 and Augauga 21. She was not wearing her seatbelt. According to the Montgomery Advertiser, none of the teenagers were wearing their seatbelts. Seatbelts reduce a person’s chances of dying in a crash by forty-five…
It’s the holiday time of the year. Unfortunately, if your husband, wife, son, daughter, mother or father died in an accident or wreck, you face unique difficulties that most other people are lucky not to experience. The Thanksgiving holiday was hardly bearable and now your face Christmas and New Year’s Day. First, let me say…
My last post pointed out that Alabama ranks the fourth highest in the teen death toll. Today, I want to pick up the Reader’s Digest again and look at their Anatomy of a Teen Car Accident. First, they cover that speeding is a factor in 35% of crash deaths involving young drivers. If you look…
While home visiting my parents, I saw a recent Reader’s Digest Article. The article points out that more than 5,000 teenagers die in car accidents every year. “If we saw these numbers coming back from a war zone, it would be on the front page every day,” says Vincent Leibell, a state senator from New…
Professors Michael Morrisey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School in a study found that for every 10 percent increase in gas prices there was a 2.3 percent decline in auto deaths. Morrisey expects to see fatalities drop about 1,000 deaths a month as gas prices have risen….
According to the Alabama Department of Public Safety an Atmore man was killed Tuesday night in a two car accident around 10 p.m. It occurred six miles north of Atmore on County Road 1. View Larger Map The other driver was taken to Atmore Community Hospital. The accident is under investigation by state troopers.
Alabama State Troopers Post reported that just after 12:00 noon today one person was killed and another injured in a two vehicle accident on Highway 431 about 4 miles north of Alexandria. View Larger Map A 19 year old who was driving a 1994 Honda Accord was taken to Gadsden Regional Medical Center for treatment,…