St. Louis Personal Injury Blog

The sounds often persist long after the crash. Squealing tires. Shattering glass. Crushing metal. Wailing sirens. The physical damage is easy to see. Busted vehicles and broken bones. But emotional suffering after a traffic accident is much harder to detect. What...

Vehicle crashes can be among the most harrowing and confusing experiences you endure. You are listening to your playlist on the way home from work one moment. Next, you wake up in a hospital bed with doctors and nurses hovering over your shattered body and no memory...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...