Car Accidents

Fatal car accidents are a persistent problem across the country with thousands of motorists losing their lives each year and many, many more suffering severe or permanent injuries. One of the greatest challenges of promoting safe driving behaviors that safety organizations have faced in their efforts to prevent fatal collisions is just getting people to […]

Serious brain injury is all too common in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a reported 52,000 deaths from brain injury between 2002 and 2006, as well as 275,000 hospitalizations, and over 1.3 million emergency room visits. More recent statistics show that roughly 1.7 million people sustain […]

Distracted driving is ubiquitous in the United States, and is an issue with which every state is currently struggling. Here in Missouri, particularly in Southwest Missouri, there is also a problem with distracted driving, and given that the number of highway fatalities over the last year has significantly increased, it wouldn’t be surprising if increased […]

In our last post, we continued our discussion about the potential impact of failure to wear a seat belt in personal injury litigation. The discussion was prompted by a recent government report highlighting the fact that Tracy Morgan and other passengers involved in New Jersey car accident last year were not wearing safety belts at […]

In our last couple posts, we’ve been speaking about the Tracy Morgan truck accident and how failure to wear a seat belt may or may not affect a crash victim’s recovery in personal injury litigation. As we’ve noted, Missouri law does not allow courts to admit evidence of failure to wear a seat belt for […]

A terrible accident on Route 30 in Missouri involved six vehicles — one of which was a commercial vehicle — and left the westbound lanes closed for a while. The wreck left eight people with injuries. Two of the victims were taken to a hospital via airlift due to the severity of their injuries, and […]

Life is unpredictable. It’s a saying we’re sure many of our readers have heard someone here in Joplin say before. But while this saying can be applied to happy occurrences, it can also be associated with bad ones as well. Take for example a car accident. In most cases, collisions with other vehicles happen suddenly […]

Despite what we now know about alcohol’s effects on driving ability, it took a long time for drivers in the United States to really recognize the dangers of drunk driving. To illustrate, consider that the annual number of drunk driving deaths has been reduced by half since Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded more than […]