Blog Archive - April, 2012

All is fair in love and . . . preventing motor vehicle accidents. Roadway designers are experimenting with ways to encourage drivers to slow down including utilizing optical illusions and trickery to make roads safer for drivers.

Many Atlanta families must rent apartments with common areas and secured access that can be dangerous because of the potential for security lapses that can result in violent criminal or sexual attacks. A landlord typically has a duty to provide adequate security to protect tenants from criminal attacks.

The societal toll inflicted by those who commit drunk driving is staggering, claiming the lives of almost 11,000 people per year and accounting for almost a third of all vehicle-related fatalities according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A recent fatal two-vehicle tire blowout accident serves as a tragic reminder of the danger of tires that are defective or not properly maintained. The accident occurred on I-20 when a passenger vehicle suffered a blowout of the rear right tire causing the vehicle to collide with an SUV.

Traffic accidents caused by alcohol have long outpaced those caused by illegal drugs, but with the rising problem of prescription drug abuse, this may be changing. Georgia residents were again recently reminded of the tragic toll of prescription drug abuse by a fatal pedestrian collision in Clayton County.

Our experienced Georgia child pedestrian accident attorneys have repeatedly seen that children are at the greatest risk of being involved in a Georgia pedestrian accident.

When you are involved in an Atlanta car accident, you generally hope that a police officer is close by so that you can get assistance and have an accident report prepared. However, few motorists contemplate the officer being quite as close as Doraville police officer Kasey Lindsey who plowed into the rear-end of another vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol.

While there may be many situations that can be extremely frightening when faced with a perspective collision with another car, truck or SUV, it is hard to imagine a scarier proposition than barreling down the interstate at 70 mph hour only to see the headlights of another vehicle coming straight for you.

Georgia, like many states, has struggled with the issue of high Georgia car accident rates caused by teenage drivers. Many Georgia teen car accidents are alcohol-related.

Traffic safety rules exist for a reason; they are designed to prevent serious Georgia motor vehicle accidents that may cause life-altering injury and the tragic loss of life. When any motorist chooses to disregard the rules of the road, the driver puts not only his or her own safety at risk, but also the well-being of their passengers in danger and is endangering everyone else on the road.

While any big-rig accident can be extremely dangerous given the massive weight and size of the vehicles, a rollover accident involving a tanker trailer loaded with hazardous or explosive materials can lead to catastrophic results. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that measures be taken to reduce the risk of tanker trailer rollover accidents including mandating implementation of stability control systems and rollover prevention programs to prevent these potentially catastrophic trucking accidents.

Tailgating is one of the most dangerous driving practices and results in many avoidable Georgia car accidents. Sometimes tailgating-related accidents are a product of aggressive driving. Other times such Atlanta collisions are an unsafe driving practice by a driver in too much of a hurry to safeguard other drivers with whom they share the roadway.