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Every time an individual travels on a road in America, he or she takes a risk. Although road travel is relatively safe, car accidents still claim a staggering number of lives each year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 35,000...
When Michigan residents go through a divorce, they must figure out how to transition to single life. If they have become too attached to certain marital assets and fail to think about their financial future, they may end up in a precarious financial situation once...
Distracted driving is the number one cause of accidents according to the Michigan State Police website. When you are riding your bike, under Michigan State laws, you are a bicyclist but you are also considered a "driver." This means bicyclists must obey the rules of...
Distracted driving is a deadly plague on American roads. According to Distraction.gov, 3,179 people were killed in vehicle accidents as a result of distracted driving. The first thing that comes to mind with regards to distracted driving is texting. While this is one...
As I drove to Kalamazoo today on I-94, I passed the burned-out area where the 133-vehicle-pileup occurred on January 9, 2015 during white-out snow conditions. The chain-reaction crash caused a semi-truck loaded with fireworks to explode. As a result, the highway was...
Many people would argue that drivers that merge at the last opportunity before the lane closure are committing a "Jerk Merge;" however, writer Tom Vanderbilt would disagree. Vanderbilt's book entitled: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us),...
A recent study by University of Calgary economists Arvind Magesan and Sacha Kapoor investigated the effects of the city of Toronto installing crosswalk-count-down timer lights at 1,800 intersections. The timers did lower the number of accidents involving pedestrians;...
For the past 20 years, Sweden has been building intersections and transportation systems that try to achieve an annual goal of reaching zero pedestrian deaths throughout the country. They named this 1997 Legislative initiative "Vision Zero." The Swedes have narrowed...
Why do so many negligent drivers give the excuse that they "were just reaching over to pick up their cell phone" after they have caused a tragic accident? Do negligent drivers feel this is a more acceptable or less blame-worthy response to give the Police than I was...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) statistics show a twenty-one percent (21%) increase in Driving Under the Influence (DUI) arrests among women during the nine year period between 2003 and 2012. Annual arrests among women increased from 174,000 to 650,000...