Parents can reduce the risk of their teen being involved in a Massachusetts car accident by spending more time on the road with them during the permitting process, according to a new study being released this week by the AAA Foundation for Highway Safety. The New York Times reports that…
Initially designed and constructed to protect Massachusetts road department and maintenance workers from slipping from the jobsite and falling onto the heavily trafficked eight-to-ten lane expressway, the Big Dig tunnel handrails have been involved in seven Boston traffic fatalities from 2005 to 2008, the Boston Globe reports. Our Boston workers’…
Driver complaints and stimulus funds are leading to much-needed improvements of one South Brookline roadway, the Boston Globe reports. A well-travelled, meandering curvy road near Faulkner Hospital – Allendale Street – has worried neighbors for years. Signage is poor, road surface conditions are patched and potholed and dividing lines and…
Wet weather and speeding are believed to have both played a role in a mid-morning I-95 Boston car accident last week that claimed the life of 32-year-old Hyde Park man, the Boston Herald reports. The 1993 Infiniti crashed into a concrete barrier which caused the car to flip before coming…
It’s no secret that the car you drive can have a big impact on your ability to survive a serious Massachusetts car accident. We’ve all seen the sub-compact cars that look as though they could be totaled in an accident with an alley cat. At the same time, the rollover…
The Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Focus Driven President Jennifer Smith that contends a state’s enforcement of its distracted driving laws will have a significant impact on whether the effort leads to a reduction in car accidents caused by distracted driving. As our Massachusetts injury attorneys reported earlier…
Motorists are likely to respond to the state’s new ban on text messaging in one of two ways: By either complying with the law aimed at reducing the number of serious and fatal Massachusetts car accidents caused by distracted driving, or by lowering their phones and hiding their activities in…
The Stoughton Journal is reporting that the state’s new text messaging ban could be tough to enforce. The new law went into effect at the first of the month as the state joins 29 others that have banned text messaging by drivers in an effort to reduce the number of…
The day is finally here for a storyline our Boston car accident lawyers have been following for months on our Boston Car Accident Lawyer blog. As of Sept. 30, the Massachusetts Safe Driving Act – which forbids texting while driving for adult drivers and bans completely the use of cell…
As a Washington D.C. distracted driving day-long summit drew to a close Sept. 21, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration prepared to release a pair of glowing reports tracking ongoing seat-belt usage and minimum age drinking law efforts. But pre-empting the publication of those reports, a controversy erupted over a…