Friday, April 29, 2016

Head-On Collision & Crush Injuries

Head-on collisions are caused when a driver crosses the center dividing line for any reason. The driver could have been trying to pass another vehicle on a two-lane road or could have been driving negligently and moved to the lane of traffic coming...

Monday, April 25, 2016

Worksite Guardrail Accidents

Electrician On an apartment construction job in North Texas, an electrician Carlos knelt down and began to feed an extension cord from the second story balcony down to the ground so it could be plugged in below. Carlos placed his hand on the temporary...

Thursday, April 14, 2016

More texting drivers in Texas and other states

In four states where texting and driving is not banned, a study by AT&T found drivers text at a rate 17 percent higher than in states where the practice is banned. Comparing the 46 states with bans on texting to the four that do not – Texas, Missouri,...

Distracted Driving has surpassed drunk driving deaths

Distracted driving has become rampant on roadways across the country, outranking drunk driving as our nation’s leading cause of auto accident fatalities. Distracted driving-related crashes have skyrocketed over the last decade, as smartphones, music...

Monday, April 4, 2016

Electronic Logbooks Truckers

Federal Mandate Could Mean Less Road Time for TruckersTruck monitoring designed to increase safety, called costly Weary drivers who clock hours of illegal overtime to make faraway deliveries and some who alter their paper logbooks to hide violations...