Driving on the highway can be a pretty intense endeavor, even if it doesn’t seem that way from the driver’s seat. It’s easy to forget that you’re piloting a multi-ton hunk of metal at speeds of 60-80 mph, depending on the speed limit (and your driving habits). Because of the high velocities and high volume […]
Elderly Car Accidents
The ability to drive is a fundamental marker of a person’s autonomy. This is especially true in the United States, where we’ve focused our federal funding on highways, over and above the more communitarian mass transit system. Here, driving is a way of life, connecting us to the outside world – to our friends, our […]
Cell Phone Data as Evidence in the Courtroom
With each passing year, cell phones are becoming more and more common. This increased rate of usage comes with changes at all levels of society: the way we interact with one another, the common methods for running a business, the entire field of marketing, the political spectrum, media dissemination and, yes, the judicial system. As […]
How Do Large Truck Accidents Occur?
Generally speaking, there are 30,000 traffic-related fatalities every year in the US. Out of every seven deaths, one is caused, in part, by a large truck. It is thus imperative to understand the reasons why truck accidents occur and what can be done to prevent them. To attack this problem, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety […]