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WAVY.com: "Portsmouth Crash Kills Two Teens, Injures One"
As tragic as this accident was and will continue to be for the families and friends of the children injured and killed, the crash has important lessons to teach about remaining safe and, as the old ad put it, "arriving alive." These lessons are particularly important for young and inexperienced drivers to take to heart.
The first is that drivers should obey posted speed limits at all times. As a rule, speed limits on surface roads are set with an eye to how fast a skilled driver in a well-maintained car or truck can drive without putting him- or herself and others at risk for an accident. The speed limit is usually set about 15 percent lower than that maximum safe rate of travel to provide a safety margin (and account for people's tendency to want to go faster than allowed). So every mile per hour over the posted speed limit puts a motorist statistically that much closer to risking an crash.
Second, everyone in a car or truck, whether the person is driving, riding in the front seat or sitting in a rear seat, should wear his or her seat belt whenever the vehicle is in motion -- and at stop signs and traffic light, since rear-end collisions can be as risky as any type of crash. People who wear seat belt properly rarely get thrown from their cars or trucks during accidents. At the same time, being ejected from a vehicle greatly increases the likelihood of head, neck and brain injuries and death.
You can learn other essential lesson by checking out our Virginia personal injury attorneys' child and teen safety checklist.
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About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is a Virginia Beach, VA-based injury law firm whose attorneys focus on personal injury and accident law and we have handled thousands of car accident, truck wreck, and motorcycle crash cases. Check out our case results to see for yourself.
We've handled car accident cases throughout Virginia including Richmond, Fairfax, Alexandria, and the Hampton Roads region including Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk.
Our primary office is in Virginia Beach at the intersection of Diamond Springs Road and Northampton Boulevard. We also have an office on Eaton Street in Hampton. All of our accident injury attorneys were raised in Virginia and have deep roots with the community.
Our Virginia injury law firm has been recognized as one of the best injury law firms in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report since 2010. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed on the National Million Dollar Advocates Forum since 2009 and included among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. Rick and Jim were named Virginia Super Lawyers for Personal Injury Law since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of lawyers receive. In addition, we were the first injury law firm in Virginia to join Primerus, a select group of highly ethical and respected law firms.
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