Auto Accidents

Self-driving cars are apparently the future of personal travel, with Elon Musk's car company Tesla at the forefront of this movement. Self-driving cars come with great benefits, such as the ability to spend commute time working, reading, or eating breakfast, decreased traffic due to smarter driving capabilities, and decreased car collisions. While things seem to be going quite well for Musk's mission to Mars, his self-driving company seems to have snagged. It's important that if you or...

In such an ever-moving culture, people want to multitask as much as possible. With GPS and Bluetooth capabilities in many vehicles on the market today, it's easy to get directions to the grocery or to call your mother while you're driving. While everyone knows it's dangerous to text while driving (texting while driving is more likely to cause a crash than drunk driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are hands-free devices the answer? In...

Throughout the United States as well as in the state of Nevada, drunk driving is a leading cause of car collisions. According to the CDC, over 10,000 people were killed in the year 2015 alone. This means nearly a third of all traffic-related deaths and 16% of traffic-related deaths of children under 15 years of age involve alcohol. This is only fatalities related to drunk driving collisions. Many more incidences include severe injuries such as traumatic brain...

As the winter weather moves in, driving becomes more and more dangerous. With the abnormal weather patterns in recent years, especially cold temperatures and precipitation is surprising individuals in many regions that are not familiar with driving in these conditions. Not only do the roads themselves become more dangerous to drive on, other drivers are increasingly likely to lose control or make a careless mistake and collide with you. No matter how prepared and confident you are...

Being involved in a car collision can be a very frightening experience that is all too common in America. When a car crash is due to brake failure, it can become more complicated to determine who is to blame for the collision. If there truly was a brake failure, there are several people or entities that may be responsible. The driver of the vehicle will claim that he or she is not responsible for the property damage...