Many readers of this personal injury blog throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the South Bay might reasonably want to be apprised of material updates to the subject matter cited in the above headline question. Here's why: The Takata air bag recall...
Legions of residents in Los Angeles and across the South Bay can certainly identify with one media contributor who recent admitted to being "terrified by the idea of being surrounded by cars in city traffic without the protection of a ton or so of steel around me."...
Fatality statistics relating to motor vehicle accidents that occur in California and nationally can sometimes seem a bit ironic and overwhelming. Take this one: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 32,675 people died in vehicle crashes...
What area of the United States do you think many people immediately think of when they hear the words "car culture?" Southern California likely crops up as a prime candidate, given the region's close association historically with automobiles. Moreover, the Los Angeles...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Although it was a welcome trend, it was short-lived. A spokesperson for one Los Angeles area police department noted in a recent media article on motorcycle accident statistics in California that, while bike-related fatalities had plummeted significantly in recent...
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...
