Motor Vehicle Accidents

After years of declining crash rates, the last few years have experienced a reversal of that trend. An increase in unsafe traffic behaviors, including distracted and drunk driving, has negatively impacted the number of fatal and catastrophic collisions around the...

There are many specific reasons that serious car accidents occur. Some accidents happen because of driver distraction, some happen because of intoxication and some even happen because of weather conditions. Many drivers who get into an accident will attempt to place...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released a report where safety regulators studied crashes throughout 2019. Findings from consumer surveys covering reported and unreported collisions were, at best, troubling. Statistics revealed the...

Improving your understanding of why crashes occur could help you avoid getting hurt when you drive. Some of the worst kinds of collisions possible involve a commercial vehicle colliding with a passenger vehicle. The damage to the smaller vehicle is often catastrophic,...

Whether you call them 18-wheelers or big rigs, commercial trucks are imposing vehicles. They are multiple times longer and twice as tall as almost every other vehicle on the road. Pulling up next to a big truck on the highway can make even experienced drivers feel...

Watch any action movie, and it becomes clear very quickly that directors want you to believe that any car will explode violently in a collision. The effects are often far over the top, and you know well that it’s not like this in real life. However, there is some...

Car crashes happen every day in America. The majority of those crashes involve only a single vehicle (58%), but they still maim and take lives. With nearly 40,000 people dying in crashes annually, it’s important to understand why these crashes are happening and what...

If you’re involved in a car crash, one of the things that could potentially happen is that you could suffer from impalement. If an object penetrates your skull, you may suffer a brain injury with long-lasting complications and implications for your future. Also known...

Car wrecks cause a lot of injuries. While some of these are minor, others are particularly serious, including traumatic amputations. A traumatic amputation occurs when a part of the body is severed from the rest of the body in an accident. These amputations can be...