How is road rage different from aggressive driving, and is one more dangerous than the other? Most of us have experienced both several times throughout our lives, but telling them apart can be difficult. So how do we know what road rage looks like? And what qualifies as aggressive driving? Road rage involves […]
Category: Truck Accident
Do You Keep These in Your Car?
It’s finally summer vacation and time for your family to go on a road trip. Looking down the list of things needed, you check off what’s already in the trunk: toiletries (check), extra changes of clothes (check), a cooler full of snacks (got it!). You load up the kids, back out of the driveway and […]
Defective Airbag Recalls
Most of us get into our cars or trucks in the morning to head to work, trusting the safety devices installed in our vehicles to do their job if we get into a collision. We assume our seatbelts will catch us and our airbags will deploy properly, functioning to reduce the speed of our weight […]
Night Driving in SWFL
When nighttime rolls around in Southwest Florida, it’s easy for us to fall victim to fatigue, roaming animals and limited visibility, which can be fatal. Even though there are fewer drivers occupying the roads after dark, vehicle death rates at night are three times higher than during the day, according to the National Safety […]
Reporting Reckless Driving
Most of us can spot a careless driver almost immediately. Usually when you see someone swerving across lanes and coming close to causing a collision, you are on alert and watch them intently, while doing what you can to avoid them. Unfortunately, there are over 40,000 people killed every year on county, state and […]
Victims of Drunk Driving
Unfortunately, accidents involving drunk drivers happen frequently in Florida. To discourage intoxication behind the wheel, Florida law offers extensive protection and rights for victims of drunk driving accidents and DUI related injuries. Many civil DUI cases involve two components: An auto accident claim in which the victim of the accident can fight for compensation […]
Commercial Truck vs. Passenger Vehicle
Why are commercial truck accidents often fatal? Commercial trucks are significantly heavier in mass compared to passenger vehicles. Passenger vehicles weight 3,000 lbs., while commercial vehicles can be as large as 80,000 lbs. There are many factors to take into consideration when operating commercial trucks. Limited acceleration, braking and visibility, along with large blind […]
