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The Most Common Ways Injuries Occur on Motorcycles in LA Even in sunny Los Angeles (especially that winding Laurel Canyon), spring means the return of motorcycles to the open road. With them come motorcycle accidents. Here are the top five causes of motorcycle accidents—and how you can avoid serious injury while on two wheels. 1. […]
Personal Injury
Statistics have continued to confirm the popular perception that even generally honest and well-behaved teenagers are more prone to having accidents when they get behind the wheel. Nationwide, car accidents continue to be the number one killer of people ages 16 to 19. Perhaps more disturbingly, teen drivers account for almost 8.5% of all costs […]
Personal Injury
A recent study by a group affiliated with the American Automobile Association, or AAA, concludes that the general public may not be as sensitive to the dangers of driving while high on marijuana as it is to the dangers of drunk driving or even other forms of drugged driving. This study’s findings may be significant […]
Personal Injury
According to investigators, a deadly collision in the Newport Beach area may have been caused intentionally. Officers indicated that they were exploring whether a young man deliberately drove his Mercedes on to a highway in the area while traveling in the wrong direction. Police also indicated that the man was traveling at a high rate […]
Personal Injury
Not surprisingly, California has a relatively high number of traffic-related fatalities when compared with its sister states. The reason this is not surprising is that California has the largest population among all the states in the union. With that large population comes a lot of motor vehicles on the road, and with that, a higher […]
Personal Injury
For over a generation now, those who support the more liberal use of marijuana in California and the rest of the country have observed April 20 as a so-called High Holiday. One custom of this countercultural observance is to ingest marijuana at around 4:20 p.m. on this day. According to information compiled in a major […]
Personal Injury
Like other states, California has in the past several decades increased its speed limits. Whereas it used to be that the fastest any motorist could travel even on the interstate was 55 miles per hour, nowadays, Californians may be allowed to drive at 65 or even 70 miles per hour without exceeding the speed limit. […]
Personal Injury
It is true that many traffic accidents in California and across the country are caused by drunk, drugged or clearly reckless drivers who care little for the rights of other people on the road. However, it does not take a malicious or poorly behaved motorist to cause an accident. All it really takes is a […]
Personal Injury
Though it is one of the most common behaviors that people across the country engage in on a daily basis, driving is also incredibly dangerous. While many people go out and about and spend their lives without ever becoming involved in a car accident, thousands of others become injured or lose their lives in crashes […]
Personal Injury
Though it has been illegal to use a hand-held phone in California for the last 10 years, the percentage of drivers using their phones while driving increased in 2018. According to people present at intersections around California, at any one moment, 4.5 percent of drivers were using their cellphones in 2018. This demonstrated an increase […]
Personal Injury
Southern California is experiencing a slew of high-profile car accidents between rapper Soulja Boy in a severe crash and several other car-related fatalities since the beginning of 2019. With so many California drivers involved in accidents, it’s important to know what to look for after an incident and what injuries may be hidden from the […]
Employment Law
Patrick Hennesy lost his leg as a result of a 2009 accident in which he was struck by a car while he and his friend were pushing their vehicle to the side of the road following a rear-end collision that had just occurred. According to the lawsuit, Hennessy was a passenger in a car being driven by his friend, Ryan […]
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