You face many different risks whenever you walk alongside the road or near moving vehicles, from busy streets to parking lots. Distracted and drunk drivers sometimes collide with pedestrians, and these accidents also occur during periods of low visibility. Drivers and...
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Recognizing dangerous trends in Alabama crash statistics
Alabama's roadways are hazardous for inattentive drivers, pedestrians and motorcyclists. Recent trends show an increase in accidents and fatalities on Alabama's roadways over the last ten years. Research shows changing dynamics in drivers, traffic patterns and the...
The rights of passengers after a motor vehicle accident
It can be easy to forget that any time you are on the roadways, you face genuine risks. For example, Alabama reports that a crash happens approximately every four minutes in the state. You likely ride as a passenger in vehicles often. While drivers may mentally...
Are spinal cord injuries common in car accidents?
Your spine is made to move and withstands a lot in your day-to-day activities, but it takes surprisingly little to sustain a spinal column injury in a car accident. Since 2015, car accidents have caused 38.6% of all spinal cord injuries, a higher rate than any other...
How do frontal lobe injuries manifest?
Frontal lobe injuries serve as one of the biggest potential issues that can come out of a serious car crash. For victims, it is important to understand what this could mean for the path to recovery. The best first step is to understand how these injuries manifest in...
What should you do after a car accident?
Being involved in a car accident is definitely a scary proposition. Even if there are no major injuries, you are still likely to feel overwhelmed by the experience. That is why you must know what to do after a car accident to ensure you handle the situation correctly....
Should you worry about hot car tires?
If you have lived in Birmingham for more than one summer, you know how oppressive the heat can be. In fact, according to Weather Spark, the city's average daily temperature does not drop below 80 degrees until the beginning of October. Staying indoors as much as...
How can you avoid dooring a cyclist?
Dooring is a problem that affects cyclists across the country. Unfortunately, their actions and precautions cannot always prevent these incidents from happening. It helps if drivers also have an awareness of the problem and take actions to stop them. What is dooring?...
Trucker substance abuse violations on the rise
Sharing Alabama’s roadways with semi-trucks may make you feel uneasy, and you may feel even more so after hearing that more truck drivers are turning to drugs while on the job. When a truck driver abuses drugs and then gets behind the wheel, the odds of him or her...
Teen drivers, teen passengers a deadly combination
The summer months are a deadly time to be on the road, and this is due in part to the influx of young, inexperienced drivers taking to Alabama’s roadways. Inexperience contributes to many Alabama car crashes. However, other factors also raise a teen driver’s crash...
