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Avoidable Birth Defects Discussed One of the most important days in any persons life is the day their child is born.  With equal parts fear, love, nervousness, and excitement, parents anxiously await the delivery to be over and the doctor to say that mother and child are healthy and happy.  Until those words are…

With fully 10 percent of all automobile accidents these days caused by drivers who are distracted, increasingly by electronic gadgets, distracted driving is always a huge problem. But summertime is worse than usual.  Drivers who simply reach for something are more than three times as likely to end up causing an accident, but those…

Fireworks Accident Injures 39: Fourth of July Fireworks Gone Wrong The Fourth of July is supposed to be a day of celebration with family and friends, often featuring a cookout, a picnic or a day at the beach, or maybe a local parade. Usually, the day ends with a fireworks display, safely conducted by…

Vehicle manufacturers have been enticing us with new cars that will make us safer because we’ll be able to keep both hands on the wheel. To date, more than 9 million vehicles on the road are equipped with what are commonly called “infotainment systems.” These allow drivers to make or receive phone calls, listen…

Campaigns to end distracted driving, texting and driving, distracted driving accidents, and all matters of unsafe driving due to distractions have been a mainstay for many years.  On television, print, and radio, state agencies, federal agencies, nonprofits and individuals have put money into a variety of public awareness campaigns to stop distracted driving.  Many…

Texas’s Largest City Prepares to Tackle What the State Has Not In 2011, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to ban texting and driving.  For some reason, Rick Perry vetoed that bill leaving Texas as one of the few states that does not have a ban on a known accident causing hazard.  In the…