Advances in public health in this first decade of the 21st Century have contributed to a record low death rate in the U.S. and the continuation of a steady downward trend.
From 1999 to 2009, the age-adjusted death rate in the United States declined from 881.9 per 100,000 population to 741.0, a record low.
Contributing factors for [...]
Your car’s side mirrors are positioned incorrectly. Most people’s are. For some reason, most people position their side mirrors so that they can see the edge of their car. This is incorrect and leads to large blind spots.
Repositioning your side mirrors can almost eliminate blind spots and reduce your chances of experiencing a car accident. [...]
I have heard a good number of people proclaim that in a rear end collision, Florida law says it is the the rear driver’s fault. That statement contains seeds of the truth but is not entirely accurate.
In a rear end car accident, Florida law imposes a presumption that the rear driver is at fault. This [...]
The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach, Florida recently ruled that auto accident victims who are injured in the crash can not pursue their claim for property damage to the car separately from their claim for personal injury that were both the result of a single crash.
Alice Bryant did just that after her [...]
(If you’re short on time, skip to the last paragraph for a paradigm shifting experience)
Your freedom ends where it begins to impinge on my freedom. It’s one of the pilars of our legal system. You are free to do many, many things in America. But when the freedom our laws provide to you begin to [...]
I’ve blogged about highway deaths before and I’ll surely blog about them again after this. They almost all remind me about the importance of under/uninsured motorist coverage. Most of the car accidents I read about are caused by someone driving very recklessly and those people don’t strike me as the kind who are likely to [...]
Two 16-year-old women sunbathing on the soft sand near Sunglow Pier were run over by a man in a pickup truck Sunday morning. One woman sustained injuries to her legs and the other to her torso.
Neither of the injuries were life-threatening, and charges are still pending against the truck driver. This guy is very lucky [...]
This tragic accident on I-95 in Daytona Beach on Wednesday night was caused by a suspected drunk driver and resulted in the death of a young woman and seriously injured a family of three.
The guy who caused the accident was arrested for drunk driving and is uninjured. Hopefully justice will be served in the future [...]
You’ve seen the over-wrought legal dramas on television and on the big screen. The truth about those dramatic courtroom depictions is they rarely have much resemblance to the real thing. Hollywood plays fast and loose with the rules of evidence and legal procedure. Real lawyers can’t ask half the questions or behave nearly as dramatically [...]
Research has shown that your reaction time while driving is slower when you’re talking on your cell phone than when you’re drunk. What’s worse it that I’ve seen people text messaging while driving – incredible. People who drive while using cell phones usually exhibit one of two behaviors. They either slow down to below the [...]