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Vehicle Black Box Data: How is the Data Used in Accidents? Thanks to advanced technology, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for drivers to lie to avoid responsibility for an accident, because it’s becoming easier for accident investigators and lawyers for accident victims to piece together the elements of that accident, and figure out what led…

Florida Propane Explosions: Many Employees Injured A series of multiple explosions rocked the Blue Rhino Propane Plant in Lake City, a town in central Florida.  There were 24 full-time and part-time employees at the plant at the time of the explosion.  According to recent reports, eight workers were injured, four of whom suffered critical…

The short answer is “yes.” Steel belted radial tires, the tires that most of us drive on today, are like milk — they expire after time passes.  The problem is, for some unknown reason, the tire industry does not want you to know this.   Consequently, identifying this date is not an easy task. How…

Top 10 Most Common Mistakes Discussed When someone has been injured in an accident, the first thing they must do is seek medical attention to treat any injuries they may have sustained.  Further, injury victims must try to plan for their treatment in light of their job and personal commitments.  It is at this…

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…

Tractor-trailers constitute a traffic hazard to everyone, including young drivers, even in the best of circumstances. They much larger than ordinary passenger vehicles, they sit very high, and they need more time to stop than other vehicles. But there is another danger when driving around large trucks, one that often has to do with…

Answer: Gasoline, sitting undisturbed, closed and in a plastic gasoline container, should not explode, combust, or catch fire unless the vapors are introduced to a heat source such as an open fire. But, if the vapors in a gasoline container are introduced to a heat source such as an open flame or fire, and…

Chemical Plant Explosion in Louisiana Thursday and Friday were deadly in southern Louisiana, as two fatal chemical plant explosions occurred at two plants within a few miles of each other on those days. The first one took place Thursday morning, when an explosion and fire broke out at the Williams Olefins chemical plant, which…