October 5th is International Walk to School Day. This week, various schools across the state will be participating in and coordinating a number of events to help reduce the risks of pedestrian accidents in Indiana. Back in 2005, legislation was passed to provide funding to individuals states to help create…
From 2000 to 2009, there were nearly 1,000 fatalities resulting from traffic-related pedestrian accidents in Indiana, according to Transportation for America. These accidents cost the state nearly $3 billion. Our state ranks 25th out of the 50 states for pedestrian danger. We surely aren’t the worst, but we surely aren’t…
After yet another fatal trucking accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has decided to make another recommendation for commercial truck drivers to be banned from using a cell phone or any hands-free device while driving. The most recent accident took the lives of 11 people and destroyed some shops…
Students in Vigo County are mourning the death of a classmate who recently died from injuries sustained in an Indiana teen car accident. The collision happened when the vehicle of the teen driver and her two passengers drifted into the path of another vehicle while traveling along State Highway 246.…
A recent teen car accident in Veedersburg killed two Fountain Central High School students. Three teens were involved in the single-car accident that happened on the Kingman Road, according to Commercial-News. Two of the teens were airlifted to local hospital. One was transported by ambulance. The Fountain County Sheriff’s Department…
Effective today, it is now illegal to text or email and drive in Indiana. Doing so is now an infraction subjecting the unsafe and negligent driver to a $500 fine. It is hoped that the new law will lessen driver distraction and decrease many car accidents caused by the failure…
Please attend the 2011 Sorrow to Strength Conference for Truck Accident Victims, their families and all other interested people. This truck safety conference will be held in Washington, DC from Saturday, April 30th to Tuesday, May 3rd. We hope to bring together families and friends of truck crash victims and truck crash…
Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration received a Defect Information Report from Lexus, a division of Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. The report disclosed defects on roughly 138,000 Lexus vehicles. Lexus believes that a change in the manufacturing process has led to the risk of foreign material contaminating some…
Over 335,000 vehicles have been a topic of discussion as subjects in the latest vehicle recall. This reinforces the idea that no vehicle is immune to the possibility of a recall. Though, the risk of a recall is less after the vehicle has been on the market for five years…
Toyota has agreed to pay $16 million in penalties after the government contended that Toyota knowingly refrained from disclosing the sticky gas pedal defect to the public and did not take action to protect the public from harm. Toyota’s agreement does not mean that the company admits to wrongdoing. However,…