You won’t get two lines into a driver’s manual or driver safety lecture before you encounter the term “defensive driving.” Expecting other motorists to make mistakes and staying prepared to respond appropriately definitely prevents crashes, avoids injuries and save lives. The same benefits follow from defensive biking. During 2019, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles…
Sometimes you have to laugh. Even as a personal injury and wrongful death attorney who has represented victims of drunk drivers since the mid-1980s, I still chuckle when remembering the story about a man who was found passed out drunk and behind the wheel of a pickup truck with its motor running in the parking…
Multivehicle pileups and head-on collisions make headlines. Single-vehicle crashes fill up emergency rooms. As much as people rightly worry about negligent and reckless drivers crashing into them after running red lights, failing to slow down and smashing into them from behind when traffic backs up on the highway, or driving drunk, the large majority of…
Any time you are involved in a car accident in Virginia, it is important to contact the police and file a report with them, especially if you are planning to bring a personal injury lawsuit against the other driver. The police report, which provides an official account of the accident, can help you establish the…
After conducting the most-comprehensive review of wrong-way driving crashes in the United States ever attempted, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported in 2012 that The most common scenario for wrong-way driving involved a driver using a highway exit ramp as an on-ramp. The report points out that such wrong-way drivers could be unfamiliar with…