Automobile Accidents

• Cell Phone Usage Banned for Interstate Trucking During Operation

  Greg Webb | November 29, 2011 8:45 AM | 5 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  On November 23rd, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary, Ray LaHood announced a Final Rule specifically prohibiting drivers of interstate trucks and buses from using hand-held cell...

• Suing Parents for Sleepovers?

  Bryan Slaughter | April 19, 2009 5:56 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  I was waiting to argue a case in the Virginia Supreme Court last week, and an interesting case relating to child safety was argued in front of me. The name is Michael H. Kellermann, Administrator,...

• Rearview Cameras Still Not in All New Vehicles as Backover Incidents Still Kill

  Greg Webb | March 30, 2012 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Almost 1,000 people have died in backover accidents since 2008 when a bill requiring all new cars and light trucks to be fitted with a rearview camera was signed into Law. According to an...

• Crash Test Dummies and Crash Testing: Focus More on Women

  Greg Webb | March 27, 2012 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The female Anthropomorphic Test Devices’ (ATDs), a.k.a. crash dummies’, less-than-perfect performance in a variety of vehicles illustrates the need for more study of women and smaller...

• Teen Driving Deaths Climbing According to Governors Highway Safety Association

  Greg Webb | February 22, 2012 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The members of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) are state highway safety coordinators who provide and share data with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)....

• Child Passenger Safety Week is September 18-24, 2011

  Greg Webb | September 16, 2011 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  This coming week (Sept. 18-24) the annual National Child Passenger Safety Week campaign will focus the public’s attention on how important it is to place children in the correct child safety...

• Traffic Deaths on a Healthy Decline

  Greg Webb | September 10, 2010 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is reporting that traffic deaths are at a 60-year low, with the number of people who died on the road dropping 9.7% (3,615) from 2008 to 2009. The decline...

• New Car Technology - Unsafe Distractions For Motorists?

  Greg Webb | January 18, 2010 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Much to the dismay of safety advocates, technology giants such as Google and Intel have started focusing their attention on installing sophisticated Internet-connected computers in the dashboards...

• VA Supreme Court Rules On Wrongful-Death Case

  Greg Webb | November 23, 2009 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a split decision, the Virginia Supreme Court decided to reinstate and send back to Henrico County Circuit Court (the trial court) a wrongful-death case in which a fourteen-year-old girl died in...

• Cruise Ship Run Aground in Virginia

  Jenny Albano | November 10, 2007 7:17 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  On Thursday, November 8 sixty-six passengers and crew members were transported to Virginia's shore by the Coast Guard after their cruise ship ran aground.The ship, the Spirit of Nantucket, hit something while traveling in the intracoastal Waterway at around 5:30 a.m. and shortly began taking in water. When the captain realized this he decided to run the ship aground instead of letting the ship...