The survivors of a Brooklyn deliveryman, who was mowed down by a teenager who was distracted by texting, plan to sue and refuse to take him off life support, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/09/22/2010-09-22_kin_of_deliveryman_left_braindead_by_texting_driver_wont_pull_plug_vow_suit_stil.html Tian Shen Lin,…
Why States Shouldn’t Be Too Hasty Raising Their Speed Limits
Highway speed limits continue to get higher, with Virginia last week becoming the most recent state to raise its limit to 70 mph. In fact, now 34 states have speed limits of 70 mph or more, prompting The Wall Street…
Nascar Gives Slap On The Wrist For Retaliation Crash
Nascar officials promised this year to make racing more aggressive, “a full-contact sport,” to keep wavering fans interested. And they seem to be intent on fulfilling that mission, big time. Tuesday the sport’s officials only gave probation, essentially just a…
Michigan Is Considering Placing a Two-Year Moratorium on Digital Signs
With state and federal laws being considered to ban motorists from using cellphones or texting, there’s a new driving distraction that’s drawing scrutiny and possible prohibition: digital billboards. The New York Times business section Tuesday did a story headlined “Roadside…
Bus Collides With Metro Train In Houston
There is a cause of action in many accident cases called negligent entrustment. With respect to the kind of accident described here, the claim is that the owner of the vehicle should not have allowed the person who caused the…
Second D.C. Metro Rail Accident Went Unreported For More Than a Day
There was a second accident on the Metro Red Line in Washington this past weekend, less than a week from the first deadly accident, according to The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203678.html In the most recent crash 20 Metro workers were riding…
Porn plus Fatigue plus Truck Equals Murder
Sometimes the total reckless stupidity of those who drive big rig trucks is beyond belief. This story pushes the limits of sanity. It’s a no-brainer that people shouldn’t drink and drive. Yet fatigue and/or distraction in the line of a…
New Federal Guidelines Bar Commercial Truck and Bus Drivers From Texting
This week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a nationwide ban that prohibits commercial truck and bus drivers from texting while they’re on the job behind the wheel. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made the announcement about the ban,…
Truck Driver Carelessness Severely Injures Man’s Face
The below story tells of serious injuries suffered by an Illinois man whose face was shattered by ice falling off of the top of a semi tractor trailer. It speaks as if this is not illegal in Illinois. Seehttp://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1978774,ice-shatters-mans-face-010710.article Regardless…
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331
AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #2 @ 1:25 (a.m.) U.S. Central Time FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ — On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, overran the runway on landing at…