Motor Vehicle Accidents

Many car accidents are fairly minor, with everybody walking away from the wreck more or less intact. However, wrecks that involve larger vehicles, like commercial trucks, can easily lead to devastating injuries for the occupants of smaller vehicles. Amputations, for...

A day doesn’t go by without someone getting involved in a car accident. In 2019 alone, there were almost six million reported car accidents – that’s nearly one accident a day for 20 thousand years. Car accidents are so common that there are rarely new ways people...

The party responsible for a car crash is usually one of the drivers involved. Police officers and insurance adjusters may go over the details of a collision carefully to determine who is actually to blame. The driver at fault may receive a traffic citation and could...

You may already realize that distracted driving comes in numerous forms, from eating a breakfast burrito on the ride into work to trying to read an email while headed home from the office. Even as you seek to avoid these dangerous distractions, you can't help but...

Florida's laws on drunk driving are clear. Anyone who gets caught with a blood alcohol concentration that exceeds the legal limit or who demonstrates impaired skill at the wheel could get arrested for drinking and then driving. Although everyone knows they shouldn't...

Many people take drinks and food with them in their vehicles. After all, there are cup holders specifically there to hold something to drink, and you may have storage areas for snacks, too. While it’s not illegal to eat or drink in your vehicle, it’s important that...

Drunk drivers are a safety problem everywhere in Florida. But some parts of the state are especially notorious for the number of drunk drivers who cause fatal car accidents. Unfortunately, according to a 2019 study by insurance website Value Penguin, Pensacola is one...

If you feel so tired and burned out that you have trouble focusing on reading your emails or staying awake without caffeine, it's a sign that you may be pushing yourself too far. Exhaustion or fatigue can have dire consequences for your overall health and work...

Although people know it’s dangerous, texting is just as popular as ever, even when people are driving. Texting creates a major distraction for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers, but despite that risk, it’s still something that you can see people doing every day....

For years, drunk drivers were the bane of public safety. Drunk driving awareness was the focus of countless advertising campaigns and high school educational programs. These days, a lot of social attention has seemingly shifted from the dangers of drunk or impaired...