THE DANGERS OF DRIVING ON SNOWY ROADS The leading cause of death from winter storms isn’t exposure or exhaustion, but instead, automobile or transportation accidents. According to the Federal Highway Administration, 70 percent of the nation’s roads are located in snowy regions—in other words, anywhere that receives more than five inches of snowfall each [...]
Thanksgiving is actually a bigger holiday travel period than Christmas and New Year’s. According to the United States Department of Transportation’s holiday travel statistics, travel to a destination 50 miles or more away increases by 54% over Thanksgiving weekend and only by 23% during Christmas and New Year’s. The automobile is the choice of the [...]
Each year there are thousands of truck accidents, leading to injuries and fatalities, expensive insurance claims and lengthy traffic jams as wreckage is cleared. While large trucks are involved in fewer accidents than other types of vehicles per 100 million miles driven, these accidents have a higher rate of fatalities. In those crashes where [...]
WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIMS IN GEORGIA Georgia state law defines a "wrongful death" as the death of one person caused by the "negligent, reckless, intentional, or criminal" acts of another person or entity (such as a business). Negligence is typically defined as a failure to use reasonable care when there is a duty to do [...]
PASSENGER RIGHTS IN ACCIDENT CASES Chain Liability For passengers of companies such as Uber of Lyft who are injured in an accident, there is more than one party who may be held responsible for injuries and damages. First of all, the driver would be liable if the accident was deemed his fault. Additionally, Uber [...]
RISKY DRIVING There are numerous factors that contribute to auto accidents. Below are some facts related to various causes of drunk driving taken from https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving. DRUNK DRIVING The interactions between alcohol and other substances in the body such as certain medications or illegal drugs increase impairment and make driving more risky. Alcohol [...]
Georgia recently passed a new law that makes it illegal to text on a cell phone while driving. The law now reads that one can be convicted under this statute “based upon the use of a mobile telephone for writing, sending, or reading a text based message or other purpose unrelated to engaging in spoken [...]
To the average person with no legal training, the law can be a confusing, complicated and too often a frightful intruder into one’s personal life. People are said to hate all lawyers except the one representing them. If you are injured: Take care of your injuries immediately (see a doctor) Contact a lawyer Document [...]