Articles Posted in Car Accidents

According to a recent news report from Entertainment Weekly, Savannah Chrisley, start of the reality television show, “Chrisley Knows Best”, suffered broken vertebrae as a result of a serious car accident.  In addition to the broken vertebrae, Chrisley has said she is also experienced a great deal of pain throughout her entire body.

The 19-year-old star released an Instagram post that showed a picture of herself in a hospital bed wearing a cervical collar brace, which is the type of neck brace often used for victims of serious accidents when it is necessary to keep the head and neck stabilized.   In her Instagram post, the young star stated that she was driving and her floor mat had shifted so it became lodged behind the vehicle’s pedals.  She then looked down briefly to try to move it away from the pedals. Continue reading

According to a recent news article from CBS News, a study from AAA has determined that the risks of driving while drowsy are commensurate with the risks of driving while intoxicated.  The study focused on drivers who are not getting enough sleep at night and found that drivers who miss out on as little as two hours of sleep a night are four times more likely to get into a car accident than those who sleep a full seven hours per night.

The article looks at the data but also the story of a woman whose 18-year-old son was killed in a Missouri car accident near the end of his senior year of high school.  In that crash, her son was driving during the afternoon when his car skidded across three lanes of traffic until it rolled over and flipped multiple times.  The car stopped when it slammed into a tree, and her son was killed. Continue reading

There is no question that distracted driving is a major problem in cities like Boston and across the United States.  While many people may not realize this, it is becoming a bigger problem, in terms of the number of accidents, than drunk driving.  The reason for this is because so many people engage in distracted driving every time they get behind the wheel.

There are an increasing number of distractions as technology advances.  While some are obvious, like using a handled smartphone to text, surf the web, or even navigate using Waze or Google Maps, there are many other types that are less obvious.  Continue reading

When someone gets in a car, they are expected to wear a seat belt.  This is instilled upon us from a young age, and, in case we forget, the car will sound annoying alarms and flash lights to remind us to fasten our seat belts.  This is not only good advice, but it is also the law.

However, this was not always the case.  Seat belts were first used in airplanes for pilots and were unheard of in cars.  This was also at a time when dashboards and steering wheels were made of hard metals and woods instead of padded materials like they are made today for safety.  While it has taken many years to ingrain the need to wear a seat belt, it seems that most people are willing comply.  According to a recent news release from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), we are now at 90 percent compliance in the United States, which is the highest it has ever been. Continue reading