No matter how little the damage or how insignificant the injury, an automobile accident is a stressful occasion. There are a few critical things to do if any car accident occurs. Print this list and keep in your glove compartment as a part of your “important papers”. CALL 911 […]
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Nissans Made Between 2004 and 2006 Added to List Nissan upped the ante in the Takata airbag investigation by adding another 45,000 vehicles to a recall list that now exceeds 17 million U.S. cars and trucks. The reason: An injury to a female driver in a 2006 Sentra, whose airbag […]
Agency Moves to Preserve Automobile Recalled Inflators The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking Takata to task for reportedly failing to provide agency-requested information related to an airbag default in vehicles that has been linked to possibly six deaths and hundreds of injuries. Takata is facing a daily fine […]
Handing down the old family clunker to the teen driver in your household should be a tradition of years past, according to a new study. Older vehicles driven by freshly licensed 15, 16 and 17 year old drivers were involved in nearly half of all fatal teen automobile accidents, said […]
As the new year approaches, a new crop of teen drivers will hit the streets. How can parents keep them safe behind the wheel? Let us count the ways. Today’s teen drivers live in a dramatically different world than their fathers and mothers did when they first put the pedal […]
I can make it. I will not run the red light. Wrong. First, the light is never as long as you think it will be between the change from yellow to red. Second, the yellow light does not mean “go faster into the intersection”. The statistics are crystal clear that […]
A new way of reaching emergency services is coming to parts of Florida, and is due to help save lives and make residents safer. Reports from the Palm Beach Post show that local government is funding a ‘text to 911’ project with state money. While reports earlier in May indicated […]
South Florida’s “Staying Alive on 95 & Florida’s Roadways” campaign officially has ushered in summer, a season that sees many motorists driving to their vacation destinations. The campaign, sponsored by the Dori Slosberg Foundation, involves law-enforcement saturations on Interstate 95 and other major thoroughfares across Palm Beach County, as well […]
In the 4.5 seconds it takes to read a text while behind the wheel, you can cover the length of a football field. That’s what happened to a young father driving a van on his way to work. In that short period of time, he ran into an Amish family […]
We in Florida must stop being distracted from passing valuable and comprehensive laws regulating distracted driving. We know that distracted driving is the equivalent, in terms of accident risk, to drunken driving. We know that the brain can perform only a single function at a time and that asking a […]