Auto accident personal injury settlements offer the compensation amount for the injured victim in an auto accident when the claim is handled through insurance. The increasing rate in the amount of more motor vehicle accidents in the United States makes auto accident insurance settlements one of the most prolific types amongst the insurance settlements. Settlement offers you negotiation for personal injury claims. According to Bureau of Transportation statistics, at least five million motor…
We typically don’t consider drunk driving as a big deal like we would a bombing or a killing of someone famous. It’s sad to see that people are dying every day because of this one bad decision. I recently lost one of my friends Jacob Salazar to a driver who was driving while intoxicated. In January of 2016, Jacob was driving home one night when all of a sudden a car swerved into the median and came into oncoming traffic and struck the front of Jacobs’s car. On his way to the hospital, he passed…
Many people willingly endanger their lives and the lives of others when behind the steering wheel, operating a one and a half ton speeding machine. Self driving cars have been in development for years and is getting closer to consumer hands everyday. Autonomous cars have the potential to replace cars that that require humans to operate. Many large companies such as Google and Tesla have taken interest in this technology and plan to have it commercialized by 2020. This is important because it…
Could installing devices in all new cars to keep drunk drivers from starting the engine, as car companies may do over the next 15 years, stop as many as 85% of all the car deaths caused by alcohol in the United States? Some reports say tens of thousands of lives could be saved, as well as billions of dollars lost from costs related to injuries. Current Technology--an IID--and the Law Many states, including Minnesota, Michigan, Florida, and Iowa mandate an interlock device for those who have…
The fact is that drunk riders can get sick in your vehicle. Watch the situation and if you think they are feeling sick, give them water and a vomit bag. If it nevertheless happens, finish the ride, turn off drive mode, drive somewhere where you can safely stop and take several photos of the damage before you clean it up and destroy the evidence. Uber will reimburse for the cleanup, but you have to give them evidence of what happened. If you go ahead and clean up before taking pictures, there’ll…
drive you have to be responsible and drink little because you can get many problems in the high way one quote that support that is "We still know that alcohol is a drug, and is the leading killer on the highway. One-third of deaths are due to drunk drivers”. This quote mean that the majority of traffic accidents are caused by people who are under the effect of alcohol. many…
If you have ever been rear-ended in a car you may have suffered from whiplash. It is the most common accident injury, and even a seemingly minor accident can cause that sudden jerking of your head backwards and forwards, leading to chronic neck and back pain, headaches, migraines or more serious injuries. Every year there are more than one million whiplash injuries, and in Australia the incidence of whiplash disorders is about 300 per 100,000 population. Research shows that around 20% of people…
sensor including a suspension-system flaw which, “Under certain conditions, the transmission controls could force a temporary downshift into first gear,” the news release says. ” Depending on the speed of the vehicle at the time of the downshift, the driver could experience an abrupt speed reduction…
texting while driving and are now giving out fines of $100 to $200 are Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix. Tempe has fallen behind, but just this year the city has passed the “Distracted Driving Ordinance.” This law states that a driver can be fined starting at $100 if a driver shows “distracted” behavior. Since this does not count texting and talking on the phone, which is still legal in Tempe, it puts into question how affective this new law is. The plan that the city has for the future is to…
drive because they are being careless of themselves and their surroundings and they have no regard for anyone else’s safety. While people may think being hit by a drunk driver could only have a negative effect on them, there may sometimes be positive effects on those who have experienced them. After getting hit by a drunk driver at the age of ten with my grandmother driving, I have realized over-time that I have learned a lot from my experience. Although we were only rear ended, it was a very…