Category: Car Accidents
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5 Common Car Accident Myths
Car accidents can be frightening events, no matter how they happen. Dealing with the other driver and communicating with insurance companies can make you feel confused and frustrated, and myths about car accidents only make it worse. Here we tackle five of these myths to separate fact from fiction.
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The Grim Truth Behind Texas Traffic Deaths and Update on #EndTheStreak
Texas hasn’t seen a day without a traffic death in more than 15 years. In fact, on average, someone is killed every two and a half hours and injured every two minutes on Texas’ roads. As a statewide initiative to reduce these chilling figures, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began the #EndTheStreak campaign, which Read More
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How to Store Important Health Information for First Responders
You never know when an emergency will strike. That’s why it’s important to be able to provide emergency responders with important medical and health information even if you are not able to directly communicate with them. Readily available medical information will help first responders make informed decisions about your care. This will also give a Read More
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What Your Family Needs to Know if You’ve Been in a Car Accident
Once you have been in an accident and have been injured, no matter how minor or serious your injuries are, you will likely need to receive medical care. It could be a simple inpatient procedure (an examination, stitches, etc.) to long-term medical care requiring surgery and hospitalization. In the most severe cases, surviving accident victims Read More
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These Note-Taking Tips Can Help You after a Car Accident
When another car crashes into yours, you’re most likely shaken up. Reaching for a pen and paper is probably the last thing on your mind. However, if you can manage to write down some detailed notes about what happened in a car accident, it will create a much more accurate record of the events than Read More
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Summer Safe Driving Tips: Be Prepared and Avoid Distractions
We have all heard of the dangers of distracted driving, whether it involves a phone call, texting, looking up directions, or turning on our favorite song. With summer upon us, we now have more drivers on roads and highways, and many of us are driving longer distances for vacation. These adventures, while no doubt very Read More
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Just an Accident? Why We Need to Call Car Wrecks “Crashes”
“It was an accident.” We’ve all heard this line — maybe from a young child who broke something, maybe from a friend or relative who made a mistake, or maybe from a stranger who damaged your property or hurt you. Regardless of the circumstances, “it was an accident” is rarely uttered without some sense of Read More
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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