This guest post is courtesy of Ms. Allison Gamble, writing for ForensicPsychology.net.
What causes an accident? Is it the speed of the car or humans ability to react fast enough to danger? What’s the forensic psychology between the desire to drive fast and the inevitable accident that follows? Speed is a factor in most accidents [...]
I bet that you think wherever you live is the one place in the country that has the worst drivers. Most people I talk with around the U.S. swear that their city is home to all the bad drivers. But according to a story in the Washington Post, the worst drivers are in Washington, D.C. [...]
There must be more to this story than meets the eye. It doesn’t seem to make sense. But as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, in states with restrictions on the driver license of young teenage drivers, older teenagers are more likely to have fatal crashes than in states without restrictions. The so-called graduated driver [...]
It seems that for the entire 40 years I’ve been practicing law the uninsured driver rate in Texas has been in the 2o% to 25% range. The government has tried various measures to reduce this percentage, but to no avail. The latest data, as reported by the Dallas Morning News, show no significant change. Here [...]
A proposal was made very recently by the National Transportation Safety Board that mobile phone use by commercial truck drivers be banned. I have mixed feelings about this proposal.
Obviously, we’re all safer drivers when we’re not chatting on a cell phone. On the other hand, long-distance truckers do need to have the ability to be [...]
Here’s a shocker — Dallas has bad traffic! Everyone knows that, but what we didn’t know until recently was that Dallas is home to the top three most-congested stretches of highway in Texas, and four of the top seven. So we can’t walk here, and we can’t drive. Not a great situation. Here are details [...]
Long-time Dallas residents understand the hazards of trying to get around town on foot, but newcomers might not realize the dangers. Now the Dallas Morning News has reported that the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is in the top-ten most dangerous locations for pedestrians. Here are excerpts from the article:
Walking, one of the healthiest forms of [...]
Here’s an interesting tidbit from a recent study by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — grandparents may be better drivers than are parents. One of the many places this was reported was on the SmartAboutHealth site:
Most statistics on car crashes indicate an increase in accidents as drivers age, especially after age 65. In a recent study [...]
Today is the day most laws passed by the last session of the Texas Legislature will go into effect. Among the many laws passed are several that affect Texas drivers.
Perhaps the new law most obvious to drivers will be the one allowing higher speed limits on highways. The state is going to abolish all specific night-time [...]
One out of 20 North Texas households doesn’t have access to a car or truck, and many of them can’t count on mass transit either. That fact from a recent Dallas Morning News article came as a surprise to me. I knew our mass transit system was moving from very bad to almost adequate, but [...]
The Dallas / Fort Worth area got a very brief break last Thursday from our string of 100-degree plus days. After 40 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures, we reached “only” 97 that day. Of course we immediately went back to triple-digits on Friday. We missed breaking the 1980 record of 42 consecutive 100-degree days, but [...]
The AP reported over one million Ford pickup trucks are involved in a recall over concerns that metal straps securing the trucks’ gas tanks “can rust, allowing them to fall, rupture and catch fire,” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday on its website. The recall includes some Ford F-150s between model years 1997 [...]
Dallas area residents know that in the past several years there have been a number of wrong-way drivers on the Dallas Tollway who have caused fatal collisions. Most of these incidents involve drunk driving.
The tollway authorities have been under pressure to find a solution to this problem, and they have come up with an interesting [...]
There has been a dispute recently between bicycle riders and sheriff deputies in Collin County. The cyclists have been getting lots of traffic tickets, and there seemed to be a misunderstanding of the “rules of the road” on the part of some cyclists. The basic law in Texas is that a bicycle is treated essentially [...]
But it’s OK. Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed a bill passed by the House and Senate that would have banned texting while driving in Texas. I assume writing blog posts is no worse than texting.
Governor Perry said the ban would be a misguided government effort to “micromanage” the behavior of adult drivers. The cynical side of [...]
The Houston Chronicle recently ran an article about insurance company USAA’s practice of submitting claimants’ medical bills to be reviewed by a company in Alabama. That company is supposedly independent, but of course the Reviewing company knows that if it doesn’t produce the results wanted by USAA it will no longer receive business from the [...]
The rental car companies are always looking for ways to cut costs, even if the measures may put their customers at greater risk. This seems to be the case in the companies’ resistance to cease renting recalled vehicles to unsuspecting drivers. This situation was detailed in a recent article at the Wheels blog of the [...]
The AP reported under regulatory pressure, Ford expanded its recall of the F-150 pickup truck over an “electrical short” than can cause air bags to deploy without a crash. The recall includes 1.2 million trucks largely from model years 2004 and 2005, and some from 2006. Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Joan Claybrook [...]
Earlier this month I wrote a blog post about the fact that trial lawyers are partially responsible for the increased safety of today’s vehicles, and how those safety features have led to the 2010 death rate in auto crashes being the lowest since 1949.
Now a longer, and more eloquent opinion piece about this same matter [...]
Union-busting is not the only big political issue in Wisconsin these days. According to a press release from the American Association for Justice, the state has now reduced the minimum required auto liability policy limits. That’s going to be bad news for anyone in Wisconsin who is seriously injured in a car wreck. Here is [...]
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