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The correlation between sleep apnea and truck driver fatigue
Have you ever forgotten the last few miles of your trip home when you were tired after a long day at work? This is one of the classic signs of fatigue, which can make driving dangerous. More than likely, you made it home safely—mostly because you didn’t have that far...
Social media is making an appearance in personal injury claims
You may have seen news stories across the internet discussing how family law attorneys warn their clients not to spend much time, if any, on social media during divorce and/or child custody proceedings. They give that advice because spouses are introducing evidence...
Smartphone addiction is real and frightening
Many times, when you hear about a distracted driving accident, the distracted driver laments that it was not worth doing whatever they were doing -- usually on the phone -- to cause the crash. You often hear of people texting a friend or checking social media. It felt...
How you can avoid a car accident
The car accident news stories are daunting. Every night, you can find plenty of examples of people getting into accidents they never expected. These are people just like you. They crash while driving to work, to school or to the grocery store. They never thought it...
Don’t trust memories; they change
You feel like you can trust your memories. They seem solid. They seem accurate. If you recount a past event to someone else, you trust what you're telling them.But should you? Probably not as much as you think. After all, scientists have found that memories usually...
Which is worse, drunk driving or distracted driving?
Drunk driving and distracted driving share a lot of characteristics. In both cases, the driver cannot fully concentrate on driving safely. In both cases, they can cause accidents that could otherwise have been avoided easily. In both cases, too, other people can...
Drunk driving: The psychology of drinking
There's one very easy way to eliminate all drunk driving accidents: Stop drinking. Every single one of these accidents, which are often deadly, is very preventable. If people simply did not drink, they would not have to worry about causing accidents.After all, many of...
Brain injuries change family dynamics
Brain injuries do not just impact you. They impact your entire family. The dynamics change, the relationships change and these changes can be very drastic. They strain relationships and sometimes lead to divorce.Perhaps you got into a car accident on the way home from...
Inattentive drivers cause more accidents
Don't text and drive. Just don't. Nothing that you need to text to a friend or coworker or family member is worth causing a car accident. You never think it's going to happen to you. When it does, it's guaranteed that you'll regret causing the wreck to send a...
5 important facts about drunk driving accidents
Drunk driving continues to be a serious issue in the United States, year after year. These crashes took 10,874 lives in 2017, for instance. That was a drop of 1.1 percent from 2016, when another 10,996 people lost their lives.Maybe you lost a loved one in a DUI...
