St. Louis Personal Injury Blog
What to know about serious crashes involving teen drivers
Being a teenager isn't easy. In addition to going through puberty and trying to figure out what they want to do for the rest of their lives, teens also have to deal with incredible social stresses caused by their peers and a generally negative attitude held by all of...
Keep your Super Bowl party safe
Super Bowl Sunday is America’s great get-together. Over 100 million viewers gather around a televised campfire every February to watch the NFL crown a new champion. Music stars command the halftime stage. And advertisers show off their latest commercials. It also is...
5 ways to avoid distracted driving
Distracted drivers are everywhere on the roadways. Glance to the right or left and you are bound to see someone fiddling with their cell phone or stuffing food in their mouth. Or what would you see if you were to look in the mirror? Hands-free technology and dashboard...
Spirit, support and the law help woman survive major disaster
At the Indiana State Fair in 2011, a storm suddenly whipped up winds causing a concert stage to collapse, killing seven. One woman arrived at the hospital with a crushed skull and entered a coma lasting six weeks. Doctors told her family their loved one might die, or...
NTSB tackles distracted driving in Missouri
Motor vehicle crashes involving cellphones and other causes of distracted driving have increased by 35% in Missouri since 2014. Last year, 79 people were killed in crashes involving one or more distracted drivers, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation...
Missouri sees slight decline in traffic deaths in 2018
The state of Missouri saw 921 fatalities result from motor vehicle crashes in 2018, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That was 11 fewer deaths on state roadways compared to 2017 for a 1.2% decrease. Deaths related to alcohol use...
4 apps that encourage hands-free driving
It’s well-known that cell phone use has played a significant role in distracted driving accidents and fatalities. The silver lining is that bright minds, technology, and our smartphones have teamed together in recent years to develop apps that, if used, are designed...
AAA: high-tech braking systems in new cars not very effective
Regular readers of our St. Louis personal injury blog might well recall a post we published about a month ago about a study that showed that high-tech safety features were helping drivers of new cars to avoid crashes, collisions and traffic accidents. We wrote that...
Tips for overcoming a post-accident disability
A car accident leaves you with permanent injuries. The worst part, in some ways, is that you don't even remember the crash. You know that you didn't do anything wrong; you've seen the footage from a nearby security camera as another car runs the red light and slams...
My Amazing Client
From Faith Earley, Senior Paralegal: This is my amazing client (and now, friend!) Lynn. She, and others like her, are the reason I choose to stay in the challenging, under appreciated, and mentally and emotionally taxing field of injury law. I have had the gift...
