Getting enough sleep is incredibly important. Failing to get enough sleep can lower a person's effectiveness in a wide variety of tasks. For some tasks, doing with them without enough sleep can even be dangerous. Driving is one such task. When a person is driving...
Wide-ranging government proposal for auto safety improvements
Many of our readers across Southern California might reasonably wonder if there is any logical nexus between advancements in automobile crash-avoidance technologies and improved fuel consumption being realized on state and national roadways. A panel of legislators on...
Are vehicle-related fatalities spiking or dropping in California?
Readers pondering the above-posed headline question might reasonably believe that a simple and straightforward answer is available that readily responds to it. Reasonable expectations notwithstanding, the evidence that has recently emerged regarding roadway deaths in...
Topic: GM’s culpability — or lack thereof — in DOJ settlement
General Motors' chief executive Mary Barra called an agreement her company reached last week with the U.S. Department of Justice "tough." In responding to criticisms that the agreement was not tough enough, government attorney Preet Bharara said that "the law doesn't...
What should the public think about high-speed police pursuits?
The above-posed headline question might strike some readers -- and reasonably so -- as being blatantly open-ended and even impossible to answer in any definitive way. After all, there is no universally agreed public view on any matter, much less one that concerns a...
Federal safety agency releases report on fatal truck accident
Saying that fatigue "cannot be addressed solely by regulations," National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart pointed to sleep deprivation as the primary catalyst in a deadly truck accident last year and stated that commercial drivers need to be more...
Will train crash-reducing tech be fully installed by end of year?
Train-related accidents -- collisions, explosions, derailments and other mishaps -- "occur in the United States approximately every 90 seconds." That quote comes from the Train Accidents page of our website at the Southern California-based Law Offices of Fred D....
Exploding air bags understandably result in huge recall
In a perfect and negligent-free world, safety recalls concerning defective products would never occur. Sadly, they do, and often only after innocent victims are seriously or even fatally injured through their interaction with a shoddy product, whatever it might be....
California safety officials worry over spate of wrong-way crashes
There are various ways to interpret statistical data, with the following extrapolation of numbers driving home in both a figurative and sadly literal sense a most sobering point regarding roadway perils in California. To wit: Although only about one-tenth of one...
The recall blues: What’s really ailing the auto industry?
There are certain things that are just hard to keep on top of, even for the most informed California resident. Such as the real state of the economy, or precisely how climate change is affecting the earth. Or -- and we're truly not trying to be facetious here --...