Fort Walton Beach Legal Blog

You’re out with friends when one member of your group says that they’re going to leave. They drove to the bar, while you took a cab. They claim that it’s fine for them to drive, drinking a cup of water

For many years, drug cases were simply treated as criminal cases. If you broke the law, you went to jail. That’s the same punishment used for many other criminal actions, with the hope that those who went to jail would

The roads are only as safe as the worst driver. It’s an unfortunate reality. Say you have 10 cars on a stretch of highway. Nine of those drivers can observe the speed limit and drive safely. If the third driver

Our roadways are increasingly congested these days, and it seems like more and more lanes are full of large commercial trucks hauling heavy cargo. Regular consumer cars don’t usually fare very well in truck accidents, and the results can be

You know a distracted driver when you see one. Maybe it’s a man on his cellphone who weaves all over the road while he talks. Maybe it’s a teenage girl who keeps looking down and texting her friends. Maybe it’s

You go before a judge and jury, accused of a crime that you swear you never committed. You give your side of the story, telling them that you were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when you

With as much of a problem as distracted driving has become, it is incredibly important for drivers to focus and stay alert behind the wheel. Many accidents happen when drivers let their minds wander or pay attention to something besides

Seeing a police car pull up behind you leaves you with a knot in your stomach. You feel nervous even if you did not do anything wrong. This is especially true if they pull you over at 2 a.m. and

Distracted driving has reached epidemic proportions in this country. With the rise of mobile technology, there are simply too many potential distractions for people to avoid them all. However, mobile phones and tablets are not the only problem leading to

You accidentally cut someone off while merging onto the interstate. You checked your mirrors, but the car came up faster than you realized. The driver had to tap the brakes to keep from rear-ending you. Knowing you should have waited,

Drunk driving never seems to end. Every year, tens of thousands of people get injured, and around 10,000 people die in DUI crashes. Someone passes away every 50 minutes. The annual cost is in excess of $44 billion. But it