Posts Archive: Crash Prevention & Safety

We all know about the dangers that drinking and driving presents on our highways, but many drivers are unaware of the severity and proliferation of another deadly combination—sleep deprivation and driving, or “drowsy driving”.

According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), roughly 100,000 police-reported auto crashes are caused by …

All five members of a Minnesota family—two adults and three young children—were killed in Nebraska on Sunday, July 31st in a crash involving a semitrailer. The long-haul trucker driving the rig faces one count of motor vehicle homicide for each death he caused due to what the state trooper’s affidavit described as inattentive and distracted driving. The case has some peopl…

Anyone who operates a motor vehicle is at risk of an accident. If a driver is negligent or careless behind the wheel, causing the accident, there could be criminal charges. Zach Bauer of Meshbesher & Spence recently stopped by Minneapolis’s KROC AM to discuss driving violations.

Driving Under the Influence

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Although it’s easy to buy a pre-made boating safety kit and stuff it in a cabinet on board your boat, if you don’t know why you should have the items on board, you could be leaving yourself open to increased risk.

In order to minimize this risk and to save precious moments during an emergency when every second really counts, it’s a good idea to remind yourself o…

Mankind has been infatuated with invisibility for a long time: there’s H.G. Wells’ 1897 sci-fi novella The Invisible Man, Wonder Woman’s invisible plane, and more recently, Harry Potter has used an invisibility cloak to sneak through the corridors of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Now, two Swedish women have invented an “invisible” bicycle helmet that could re…

Civilians are not the only ones that struggle with distracted driving. Although police officers are usually the ones enforcing laws that prohibit it, Kare 11 recently reported that 61 crashes, over the course of 48 months, involved distracted driving on the part of a police officer – a reminder that all of us are susceptible to human error.
In these cases, the squ…

Though no one disputes that both bicycling and technology use are on the rise (especially as technology is increasingly used for navigation), the debate over whether or not there should be laws to regulate cell phone and headphone/earplug use while bicycling is a heated one—opinions couldn’t be more divergent.

Distracted bicycling reform: Which side are you o…

While most people acknowledge the inherent dangers of distracted driving, the notion that distracted walking presents risks of its own, may strike some as a bit of a stretch. But as anyone who read about the San Diego man who was distracted by an electronic device and fell to his death from the Sunset Cliffs last December will attest, the danger is real.

In fact, some p…