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Independence Crash Lawyer Names Kansas City’s Most Dangerous Intersections
Douglas Horn, an Independence, Missouri lawyer, published the 20 most dangerous intersections for 2012 in the Kansas City area. Following is an excerp...
Efforts to Restrict or Ban Texting While Driving Vary Among States and Federal Government
Texting while driving, and whether authorities should ban or restrict the practice, remains a controversial subject. More than half of all U.S. states...
Missouri DUI Case Goes to U.S. Supreme Court, Could Change How Police Collect Evidence in DUI Investigations
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments recently in the case of a Missouri man who refused to submit to sobriety testing after an arrest on su...
Smart Phones Increase Distracted Driving Risks
Staying connected hasn’t been the same since smart phones made their entry on the electronic communication stage. However, these very same devic...
Distraction Possibly a Factor in Collision Between Automobile and Commuter Train that Left Two Dead, Two Injured
A collision between a commuter train and an automobile in Connecticut in late December may have resulted, at least partly, from distracted driving, ac...
Can a Person Be Held Liable for Distracting Another Driver? Not So Far, but Maybe.
Police ticketed a man in Wichita, Kansas who covered his pickup truck in hundreds of Christmas lights, citing public safety concerns. The risk of traf...
NTSB Investigation Finds Faulty Brakes and Driver Distraction Caused Deadly 2011 Truck-Train Collision
A June 2011 collision between a tractor trailer and an Amtrak train in Nevada was the result of poorly-maintained brakes and lack of driver attention,...
Police Departments Deal with Distracted Driving Among Their Own Officers
The term “distracted driving” typically conjures images of drivers splitting their attention between the road and a cell phone, which they...
2011 Sees Drop in Traffic Fatalities, but Spike in Bicycle, Truck Accident Deaths
According to data from the federal administration, traffic accident fatalities in 2011 dropped to their lowest levels since 1949, touching an all-time...
FMCSA Shuts Down Trucking Companies After Fatal Accident
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently ordered two North Carolina-based trucking companies to shut down all of their transpo...