We’re sure you’ve noticed, but we’re going to say it anyway — traffic is getting awfully congested. This isn’t only a headache, it’s causing us to spend more time and money behind the wheel. Officials with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently completed the Urban Mobility Report (UMR) to…
On February 4, our Boston bus accident attorneys wrote about a Boston bus crash that left a group of 42 students and chaperones trapped on a charter bus after the bus ignored maximum height warnings. At least 32 of those on the bus suffered injuries in the accident, some of…
Car accidents are an unfortunate fact of life in Boston and throughout the United States and they continue to occur every day, even as we make new traffic laws, work to make the roads safer and try to build better and safer cars. Recently, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety…
On February 3, 2013, a group of high school students traveled to visit Harvard University. The group of 42, including students and chaperones, chartered a bus to take them to Harvard from their home in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, while in Boston, a serious bus accident occurred when the charter bus hit…
According to the Woburn Patch, a 24-year-old Massachusetts man was killed in January by a tractor trailer. The tractor trailer did not stop at the accident scene but instead continued driving until state police found what they believe to be the vehicle shortly after midnight. Our Boston truck accident attorneys…
In 2007, Congress approved legislation imposing new standards for rear visibility in cars. The aim of the legislation was to eliminate blind spots on cars that hide pedestrians, kids, animals, the elderly and objects behind vehicles. Improving rear visibility was and is an important priority, with the National Highway Traffic…
In 2010, an accident occurred when a Toyota Camry accelerated unintentionally. The accident killed two people who were in the Camry and injured two others. The family filed a lawsuit against Toyota claiming that the crash was caused by a defect in the vehicle’s design that caused the car to…
In December of 2012, the University of Michigan published an article about the changing demographics of drivers. By studying data from the Federal Highway Administration, a research professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute indicated that the number of women with driver’s licenses now exceeds the number of…
Insurance companies are in business to do one thing: make money. This means that when someone gets into a car crash, the insurance company isn’t focused on making sure that the injured victim gets the money he or she needs to pay medical costs, to get better and to move…
According to the National Highway Safety Council, more than 75,000 lives were saved between 2004 and 2008 as a result of drivers wearing their seat belts. However, despite the fact that wearing a seat belt makes sense, many people simply refrain from doing so and could be seriously injured as…