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…
He would have turned 58 on Sept. 16, the Boston Globe reports. Instead, the father of two boys who immigrated here from Russia many years ago for a chance at a better life leaves behind a mourning wife, two sons. The inspector for Massachusetts Department of Transportation was struck and…
According to the National Sleep Foundation, 103 million drivers admit to falling asleep behind the wheel and 168 million say they’ve driven while drowsy. Of these, 11 million drivers admit they’ve either had a car accident or narrowly avoided one after dozing off behind the wheel. It is estimated that…
As our Boston injury lawyers await the release of Massachusetts traffic statistics for 2009, a look at the national statistics shows a decline in serious and fatal accidents across the board. The number of fatal Massachusetts traffic accidents declined to 334 last year, from the 364 reported in 2008, according…
A 19-year-old Sudbury teenager faces charges after serving a fellow teenager alcohol at a party thrown at his family’s Willis Road home. The 18-year-old guest later left the party and died in a one-vehicle Massachusetts car accident after the Mercedes-Benz SUV he was driving veered off the road and into…
While our Boston injury lawyers reported on the recent historic drop in traffic accidents last year, one-third of traffic fatalities nationwide remained the fault of drunk driving, according to new statistics just released from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Alcohol-related Massachusetts car accidents were responsible for 108 of 334…