On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Nov 21, 2019 | Car Accidents
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...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Nov 11, 2019 | Car Accidents
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...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Nov 5, 2019 | Car Accidents
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...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Oct 15, 2019 | Car Accidents
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...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Sep 23, 2019 | Car Accidents
With high schools across St. Louis back in session, this is a good time to examine again the leading cause injury and death to teens ages 16 to 19: motor vehicle crashes. A new study of the dangers to teenagers finds that brain development plays a critical role in the...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Sep 17, 2019 | Car Accidents
When people drive around St. Louis, they are constantly making use of their vehicle’s common safety features: brakes, headlights, seat belts, etc. We often use those features reflexively; we’ve used them so many times that not a great deal of thought goes...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Sep 11, 2019 | Car Accidents
When the St. Louis night air begins to get crisp and the leaves on the trees slowly start to change their colors, it is a sure sign that schools have reopened their doors to students and autumn is on its way. While it’s important that high school students study...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Sep 9, 2019 | Car Accidents
Each year, the toll of distracted driving mounts in lives lost, injuries caused and dollars wasted. Thousands dead, hundreds of thousands injured and billions of dollars squandered. We all know of this horrific toll taken by distracted driving, yet you can still go...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Aug 29, 2019 | Car Accidents
It is a sight that, unfortunately, many in St. Louis have gotten used to seeing: two mangled cars sitting in an intersection after a crash. Many of these violent collisions occur because a driver gambled on speeding through the intersection though the light had...
On behalf of The Wilbers Law Firm LLC | Aug 20, 2019 | Car Accidents
Urban legends can have extraordinarily long lives. Consider some myths about sleep that science and logic have been unable to extinguish: the belief that “you swallow a few spiders every year while you sleep” and that during sleep, your brain rests (in...
