A 71-year-old man has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident near Santa Barbara. Reports indicate that the accident happened just before 1 p.m. on May 25 at the intersection of Highway 154 and Cathedral Oaks Road. Details are scarce, but it is clear that the...
Reports showed that 76,000 pedestrians were injured one year in car accidents, and other reports indicate that around 5,000 people die in these accidents annually. These are staggering numbers, and certainly there are cases where the pedestrians are at...
Parents go to great lengths to keep their children safe. They buy them safety equipment—like bike helmets—for dangerous activities, they take them to the doctor when they're sick, and they work hard to keep an eye on them at all times. However, children are still...
Stating that his "continued operation of a commercial motor vehicle … puts the motoring public at imminent risk for serious bodily injury or death," federal safety regulators took action to permanently take away the driving privileges of one commercial truck driver...
Talk about optimism. Safety officials in Los Angeles have a flat-out lofty goal that they seek to achieve within a decade. If realized, it would unquestionably make the metropolitan area the safest municipality in the country. To wit: No traffic-related deaths...
Pretty much anyone in California who knows anything about motorcycles -- whether a rider or not -- readily appreciates the singular and outsized safety risks involved for even a rider who loses control at a very low speed. Even a bike tipping over at, say, five miles...
Every day across the country, and in every state from California to Maine, roadside inspections of commercial trucking rigs are carried out. And for good reason, obviously. America's 18-wheel tractor-trailers and other roadway giants are colossal entities on state and...
In the realm of traffic accidents, a decidedly mixed state of affairs -- let's call it a good-news, bad-news scenario -- seems to be operative in the United States, at least from a national perspective. On the one hand, and as reported in a recent media article...
A provisional driver's licensing law for teen motorists has been in force in California for many years, with myriad age- and experience-specific prerequisites (hurdles, if you will) that must be satisfied en route to any teen obtaining a full-privilege license. Would...
The auto-manufacturing industry has long shown that it chafes under a regulatory regime that primarily focuses upon rule making and punitive actions. And, on the flip side, federal regulators have equally shown that they are sometimes not up to the task of keeping...
