Category: Car Accidents

First it was drunk driving, then it was distracted driving and now it is drugged driving. It seems people don’t just get in their car and drive anymore. Contrary to popular belief, marijuana does affect your coordination, concentration and reaction time. All of these impairments combine to make a car accident much...

According to a new study by the Automobile Association of America, the likelihood of a teen driver being involved in a car crash during the first month of driving without supervision is 50 percent greater than after a year of driving independently. After analyzing the data, researchers concluded that 57 percent of...

As Romando Dixson reports for the Citizen-Times, there were hundreds of people – more than 500 – who turned out for the funeral of three men who were recently killed in a car wreck. “He was a young guy with a lot of enthusiasm and a very humble, hard worker,” says...

A 27-year-old North Carolina man, father of two young children, died recently after driving around a bend in the road and hitting a slow-moving tractor going roughly 25 miles per hour. As Danielle Arndt reports for the Rockford Independent, it is against North Carolina law to drive tractors and other...

A new survey released in March demonstrates how teens are frighteningly unaware of the dangers of distracted driving. According to the Consumer Union survey, more than 60 percent of American teens don’t see texting behind the wheel as a dangerous threat to their safety. Based on the survey, 63 percent...

Much is made about the dangers of winter driving. Snow, ice and visibility problems are major culprits, but worn tires present hidden issues that are often unaddressed until it is too late. The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) estimates that 11 percent of vehicles on the road in the United States...

Wilmington drivers are all too familiar with the congested intersection at Kerr Avenue and Market Street. Excessive traffic combined with dangerous left-turns continue to cause drivers headache and frustration. But local transportation officials have several proposals in the works to improve the traffic congestion and reduce car accidents at the...

If lawmakers were required to fully contemplate and understand the outcome of every bill that made its way through legislative byways and to the governor’s desk, it would be impossible to create law. Legislatures generally intend to promote law and policy that benefit the public good. And in response to...