Auto Accident | September 14, 2016 Some experts question their safety Uber has been available in Pittsburg for two years, and this week the company is unveiling driverless taxis to journalists and soon to the public. Some safety experts are concerned about the sophistication, or lack thereof, of the technology…
Auto Accident | March 1, 2012 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing a mandate to Congress, requiring automakers to equip all new passenger vehicles with rearview cameras by 2014. The cameras primary benefit would be to reduce the fatal car accidents involving vehicles backing over pedestrians, most often…
Auto Accident | February 3, 2012 Safety measures that parents insist upon for their own children may be ignored when carpooling responsibilities place multiple children in the vehicle. Research has shown that parents are more likely to expose children to injury in a car accident if they are carpooling. Properly…
Auto Accident | December 30, 2010 Roughly 80 people die each year from drunk driver car accidents on New Year’s Day, as reported by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. That figure illustrates a 150 percent increase in the chances of one dying in an alcohol-related crash when comparing it…
Auto Accident | October 7, 2010 A school-bus accident on Monday morning sent 13 children to the hospital and the driver to the Peoria County Jail. The bus was shuttling 20 children to a Peoria district school when it jumped a curb and stopped in a residential driveway, striking two…