Regulations To Reduce Car Accidents

The new California law says that as of July 1, 2008 drivers are not allowed to talk on the telephone while driving. This measure will hopefully prevent the number of car accidents on California roads. Recently, a Chicago politician Edward M. Burke proposed a law on drivers who use text messaging or surf the Internet while operating a motor vehicle in order to reduce car accidents in Chicago. CBS 2 Chicago reports that the ban would fine motorists who take their hands off the wheel to text $75, or $200 if an accident resulted.

In his commentary, Burke dais, "It's time for us to revisit the issue. It's as much a part of educating the public as anything else." He stated that it is important to let people know that driving and texting creates a significant hazard on the road. Hopefully the proposed regulation will reduce the number of car accidents. Studies by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration imply that driving distractions trigger close to 80 percent of the nation's car accidents. If the latest proposal passes, Burke said, he may go after other forms of distracted driving such as ticketing pedestrians, an increasing number of whom are landing in emergency rooms for injuries suffered sending texts while crossing the street.

DUI Lawyers in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles

Car accident due to DUI will require an accident lawyer. When searching for a car accident lawyer, it is best to ask around and get references from your friends and relatives who may know a good accident lawyer. A good car accident attorney can save you a lot of headache especially if your car accident occurred as a result of drunk driving. When you are at fault, it is best to seek a good DUI lawyer in your area who specializes in DUI cases. My DUI attorney who went to court for me was a personal friend. Lucky me, I did not have a car accident, otherwise, I’d have a lot of work for my attorney. In fact, I also got lucky because my DUI attorney was a personal injury attorney at the same time. In fact, he recently won a wrongful death case, so my personal injury attorney assuming a DUI attorney’s position in my case is also a wrongful death attorney.

If you live in a big city, such as Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles, chances are you know someone who knows an accident attorney, has a personal reference to a car accident attorney, or a DUI attorney. DUI attorney is your council who represents you in criminal court, so DUI is considered a criminal offence and thus you will need a criminal attorney AKA criminal defense attorney. In Los Angeles the number of DUI offences is great. Los Angeles is a big city with lots of drivers. You can’t get around without driving. There is rarely any public transit in Los Angeles, and thus DUI offences in Los Angeles are frequent. Los Angeles DUI attorneys are not cheap but are well worth the money. In fact, Los Angeles lawyers are some of the highest paid lawyers in the country. So, if you are out of luck and are caught driving drunk on the public road in LA, be prepared to pay the top dollar for your DUI criminal defense.

Personal Injury Lawyer Wins $3M Lawsuit

A personal injury attorney specializing in malpractice wins a lawsuit alleging the county in not properly maintaining a tree that fell on a car killing a mother of a seven year old. This case reminds me on a car incident that I have personally undergone through. I was driving on a public road in the bad weather with my daughter in the vehicle when a tree fell on my company van. We sustained no personal injury but the vehicle sustained damage. There was a dent on the roof, a crack in the windshield and the passenger side mirror fell off completely and was hanging on a single cord. The next day I took the vehicle to a body repair shop and the company insurance estimator was expected to come in shortly to estimate the damage on the vehicle.

Next thing I know, an insurance company rep called me to find out the details of the accident and the location. After determining that the tree that fell on my car was located on a public road, the insurance company rep asked me whether it was a county or city property. I had no idea how to answer that question. The insurance rep explained that the county was at fault for not properly maintaining the tree and that the insurance carrier was going to file a lawsuit on said allegations.

Here is a video where a personal injury lawyer talks about the laws related to a similar accident in my area.

Drunk Driving On a First Date; DUI Doesn’t Get You Laid

My DUI program required watching videos about drunk driving, drunk drivers and real people telling real stories about their drunk driving experiences. I remember a sweet young woman at the hospital telling the reporter the story about how she ended up at the hospital.

She was out on a first date. She and her date were at a bar where they had a couple of drinks. After all it was a Friday night and neither had to go to work the next day. After the bar they decided to go to a dance club. They danced and drank late into the night and as the club closed its doors they proceeded to the parking lot. She insisted on taking a cab, but her date convinced her that he wasn’t that drunk and since her house was only a few miles down the street, he would be ok to drive.

The young couple was just a few blocks away as the car approached an intersection on high speed. The driver was in a hurry to get back to the woman’s house in the hopes that his drunk buzzed date would let him stay overnight. Driving over the speed limit he crossed the intersection on red and crushed into a UHAUL truck. Both, the driver and the passenger ended up at the hospital instead of the girl’s house. Don’t drink and drive and watch this short funny drunk driving on a date video.