Category Archives: Car Accident
Where Do Seatbelts Get Their Safety Superpowers?
“Seatbelts save lives” has become such a proverbial expression that hardly anyone gives much thought to how seat belts harness their life-preserving power. The current generation of newly licensed drivers has been buckling their seat belts for as long as they have known how to tie their shoes, as has the current generation of… Read More »
Yes, Head Injuries Can Cause A Hormonal Imbalance
It’s easy to blame other people’s hormones for the challenges in your life. Every time a teenager, a pregnant woman, or a middle-aged woman disagrees with you, you assume that the person’s refusal to see things from your perspective is because of the hormonal changes associated with puberty, pregnancy, or menopause, but hormones that… Read More »
Where Is The Safest Seat In The Car?
It is obvious to anyone who has had a driver’s license long enough to renew it that cars are getting safer. Today’s cars jolt you awake if you start acting drowsy and brake on their own if you are getting dangerously close to another vehicle or stationary object. They have a conniption fit if… Read More »
South Carolina Could Soon Get Its Own Version Of Bentley’s Law
Driving under the influence of alcohol is illegal in all 50 states, but the penalties vary from one state to another. Some states require people convicted of DUI to pay fines and surcharges where the money goes to help people injured by drunk drivers and to the surviving relatives of people killed in DUI… Read More »
Family Gets Settlement After Rear Axle Detachment Causes Teen’s Fatal Collision
We have all heard the stories about the fancy new cars that went berserk and caused accidents despite the driver doing everything right and about the ostentatious vintage vehicles built, or rather rebuilt, for show and not for safety that provided 1970s levels of safety in the event of a collision. Who can forget… Read More »
Traumatic Brain Injury Is More Than Just A Headache
Seatbelts and driver and passenger side airbags save lives, and so do motorcycle helmets. With these items of protective equipment, you can greatly reduce your risk of dying in a car accident or motorcycle crash. Hitting your head against a structure in the car, or hitting the pavement, even with a helmet on, can… Read More »
Vicarious Liability And South Carolina Personal Injury Cases
What are personal injury lawyers thinking when they run TV advertisements that make it sound like they can easily make tens of thousands of dollars, or even more, materialize in the pockets of people injured in car accidents? Alternatively, what is the television audience thinking? The dreams of money raining from the sky disappear… Read More »
One Car Strikes Five Others On Parklane Road
Chain reaction collisions can be very destructive. One car strikes another, and then the second car strikes a third car, and so on until the last car does not have any other vehicles in its path and is able to come to a stop without hitting anything. When a chain reaction collision happens on… Read More »
South Carolina Still Has A High Rate Of Drunk Driving, Despite Strict Laws
Everyone knows that it is dangerous to drive under the influence of alcohol, but people still do it. Alcohol is a contributing factor in approximately one third of fatal accidents. Of course, many of the victims of drunk driving accidents were sober at the time of the collision; some of them were too young… Read More »
Can You Sue Over A Freak Accident?
When you contact a personal injury lawyer about a car accident where your injuries resulted in costly medical bills, your lawyer has probably worked with other clients injured in accidents very similar to yours. While it is upsetting that the same kinds of accidents keep happening, and neither legal regulations nor advancements in vehicle… Read More »