One of the most important parts of any vehicle is the brakes. If the brakes are defective, the risk of being in a vehicle accident spikes considerably. Many drivers are not aware that there is an issue with the brakes until it is too late. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), brake…
Municipal and state agencies set speed limits for all the roads we drive on. The purpose of speed limits is to make sure that the roads are safe for everyone who uses them – commuters, pedestrians, and cyclists. There are a number of factors that go into determining what the speed limit of an area…
Speed and driver distraction may have played roles in causing a rear-end collision between a public school bus and a large box truck in King George County, Virginia (VA), on the afternoon of January 30, 2018. A witness said the truck never slowed down before slamming into the back of the bus in the 8000…
The cause remains unclear, but a driver who crossed the double yellow center line of a rural highway in central coastal North Carolina killed a passenger in the other vehicle. Both drivers involved in the head-on collision in Jones County on the afternoon of Jan. 31, 2018, also suffered serious injuries that required their admittance…
Last June, Leonard Schultz, a popular special education teacher and football coach at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia, was killed when he was struck by a box truck on the Capital Beltway Inner Loop in Springfield. The 52-year-old victim and his 24-year-old nephew had stopped their pickup truck to secure a boat they…