When you look at the fatal car accident rate per 100 million miles driven, the first thing that stands out is that young teen drivers have some of the highest rates in the country. As an age group, they're involved in a lot of catastrophic accidents. The reason that...
Drunk driving quite rightly gets bad press as alcohol inhibits your ability to drive well. It can affect your decision-making, reaction time and vision, as well as your capacity to steer in a straight line. The end result is that over 10,000 people die each year, and...
If you have small children, they are probably excited about Halloween. Dressing up and wandering the neighborhood in search of sweets is fun when you are little. Yet, as a parent, you should be scared. It is not the guy in a Freddy Krueger costume that you should be...
As technology grows more commonplace in everyday lives, it is easy to see the positive and negative impacts that it potentially carries with it. For example, technology promotes better safety mechanics and tools to keep drivers safe while on the road. At the same...
After a recent motor vehicle collision, you learned you have a concussion. The medical diagnosis helps you build your injury case, but how do you recover from the harm? Mayo Clinic offers diagnosis and treatment details for concussion injuries. Their insights may help...
Daily life provides many situations in which a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may occur. But driving is one of the most common potential causes, due to the possibility of a driver getting involved in a crash. If this happens, the signs of a TBI may start to show right...
Rear-end motor vehicle collisions can have serious consequences and often lead to death for drivers and passengers alike, although many may not consider them as dangerous as other types of crashes. However, the Insurance Information Institute reports that these types...
Most people in North Carolina understand that not all vehicles on the state's roads and highways are equal in terms of the protection afforded to their operators. Motorcycles offer a good example of this fact: motorcyclists have little to protect them from serious...
Driving is likely a normal part of your everyday life as you travel to work, school and errands. But every time you get in your car to drive, the risk of getting injured in an accident exists. According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, 105,390 car...
When looking at the most increasingly dangerous behaviors that modern drivers engage with and face, drowsy driving remains near the top of the list. Other forms of distracted driving - such as texting while driving - also have an impact. But drowsy driving has...
