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The True Cost of a Car Accident
At best, car accidents are a pain and inconvenience. They can make you late to work or an appointment, leave you without a vehicle, or increase your insurance premium. In a worst case scenario, they can cause personal injury or death. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the total impact of car crashes Read More
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What You Should Know about Large Truck Accidents
Fear of large trucks on the roadways is relatively common—enough so that horror movies sometimes even monopolize on that fear by focusing on unstable drivers or even evil, driverless trucks. We know, of course, that most truck drivers are highly competent and do not cause accidents. However, when collisions involving large trucks (those over 10,000 Read More
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What to Do When You See a Drunk Driver on the Road
Crashes involving drunk drivers result in approximately 28 deaths per day, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That’s a third of all traffic deaths. These fatalities are entirely preventable and take community vigilance to prevent, so it’s important to know how to respond when you encounter an intoxicated driver. Regardless of the circumstances, Read More
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Dealing with an Uninsured Driver in a Car Accident
For Texans, the option to drive uninsured ceased over a decade ago when the Texas Departments of Insurance, Public Safety, Motor Vehicles, and Information Resources collaborated to create a database system to reduce the number of uninsured drivers in the state. The verification program (called TexasSure) hosts every vehicle’s license plate, vehicle identification number (VIN), Read More
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Hit the Road, Jack: Summer Driver’s Education Training
The summer months invoke a sense of freedom in us all — but especially for teenagers on the brink of learning to drive. As a teen, summertime may conjure images of the car top down, hair blowing in the wind, and singing with the car radio blasting. As a parent of said young driver, the Read More
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The Facts about Spinal Injuries and Car Accidents
Spinal Injuries: More Common Than You Think A spinal cord injury ranks among the most serious and potentially devastating injuries a person can suffer. Since the spinal cord contains the major bundle of nerves that carries impulses between the brain and the rest of the body, trauma to the spinal cord can result in a Read More
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NHTSA Announces Pirelli Tire Recall
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a recall beginning in May of 2016 for certain tires made by the car tire manufacturer Pirelli between April 1, 2015 and April 7, 2015. The affected car tires may not be marked with a date code, the NHTSA said in the recall notice, which means that Read More
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Half a Million Jeeps Recalled by Fiat Chrysler over Airbag Malfunctions
On May 18, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles issued a voluntary recall affecting approximately 500,000 vehicles, nearly 400,000 of which are in the United States. This recall was issued in order to replace clockspring assemblies in 2007-2010 Jeep Wranglers. When these assemblies are exposed to dust and dirt, the driver’s side airbag may not deploy in a Read More
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What to Do When You’ve Been Hit by a Commercial Truck
Collision with a Truck: A Driver’s Worst Nightmare With a typical semi truck weighing 20 to 30 times as much as a passenger car, a collision with a large commercial vehicle ranks among the average driver’s worst-case scenarios on the road. Unfortunately, it’s also more common than you might guess: About 1 in 10 highway Read More
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Dallas Makes It Rain: How to Avoid Hydroplane Situations in Wet Weather
Ask a random American on the street about cities that are famous for wet weather and you’ll probably hear something about Seattle, or maybe Portland — but almost certainly not Dallas. And yet, Dallas/Fort Worth residents know all too well that their region unleashes sudden downpours that would send Pacific Northwesterners running for shelter. In Read More
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