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....
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...
Care to venture a guess as to how many motorcyclists there are on streets and freeways in Los Angeles and across Southern California generally? Neither would we and, if we did, we would safely couch our answer by simply noting that the number is assuredly in the...
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 --...
Riding a motorcycle comes with some inherent risks with which most riders are quite familiar. They know that they can be harder to see on the road; they know that they can be severely injured in a crash; they know that they are more exposed to the elements than other...
