Articles Posted in Car Accidents

According to a recent news feature from the Washington Post, witnesses reported a Toyota SUV driving from Boston’s Chinatown Neighborhood to Dorchester with a woman trapped beneath the undercarriage of the vehicle. They reported seeing her legs extending from under the rear bumper on this ride of several miles in length after the car crashed into two pedestrians in Chinatown and dragged one of them, a middle-aged woman.

Witnesses also said the woman could clearly be heard screaming as the SUV was dragging her down the bumpy streets of downtown Boston. One of the witnesses said she first thought the screaming was some type of car alarm. Continue reading

For the past few weeks, the Boston Globe has been following the trial of a defendant charged in connection with a serious car accident that occurred on the Arborway in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. To summarize the evidence presented at trial by the Office of the District Attorney for Suffolk County (Boston prosecutor), defendant was driving 60 miles per hour on a road with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour.

The evidence showed he was traveling at what was called a reckless speed while going around a significant curve in the road, and he lost control of his vehicle. At this point, he drove into a median, which caused the car to roll over, and, while tumbling, it crashed into victim’s pickup truck. Continue reading

Often times, when you are out on the highway, you will see parts of the tire from a large truck lying on the pavement. This by itself can be a dangerous road hazard, and you may have to take evasive action to avoid the steel-belted rubber. However, it is when the tire first comes off the truck that it is most dangerous.

While some over the road truck drivers have a trailer that they use all the time and wait for it to get loaded and unloaded, many drivers simply drop off their empty trailer at distribution center loading dock and pick up a full trailer for the next trip. These trailers often do not get the maintenance they need, and they certainly do NOT get the care given to the driver’s tractor. Continue reading

According to a recent news article from the Boston Globe, the trial for a man accused of having caused a serious Boston car accident that resulted in two victims being paralyzed began at the Brighton Court House.

The serious Boston car accident occurred in Jamaica Plain in 2013. Prosecutors allege that defendant was driving at over 50 miles per hour on the Arborway when he lost control of his vehicle and swerved into the lane of oncoming traffic and crashed into a pickup truck. He was traveling 20 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour on Boston’s Arborway when the car accident occurred. Continue reading

In case you missed the countless Facebook posts and memes, last year was the year Doc Brown took Marty McFly to the future in the DeLorean. Must to the disappointment of many who saw Back to the Future, we still do not have any flying cars. There have been some claims of flying cars, but since you need a private pilot’s license and an airport, they are more akin to a drivable airplane than a flying car.

While flying cars may never happen, self-driving cars are being developed that, at some point in the not too distant future, will be driving down the roads of every neighborhood in America. One the on hand, self-driving cars can prevent accidents, since many accidents are fault of negligent drivers. However, as we have already seen with some of the self-driving cars Google is testing, when there is an accident, it is often hard to determine who is at fault. Continue reading