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...
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...
A blog topic that timely addresses a noteworthy news event will occasionally need to be revisited following publication owing to material updates in the subject matter. Such is the case with motorcycle lane-splitting, which we termed in our June 15 blog post "a big...
The so-called "right hook" referenced in a recent article on the safety challenges facing bicyclists in American cities is termed "a common and devastating crash." It occurs when a commercial truck makes a sudden right turn in front of a biker riding on the right side...
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....
A would-be law in California that is focused upon so-called "lane-splitting" is weaving its way through the state legislature at the same time that many thousands of motorcyclists routinely weave their way through traffic on the state's roads and freeway systems. As...
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....
