Category: Car Accidents

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, data shows that new vehicle safety technologies have helped to reduce police-reported crashes. It has been discovered that vehicles equipped with forward collision warnings in California and around the country were able to reduce the number of rear-end crashes in 2013 by 23 percent,...

An auto accident near Chula Vista that occurred on Jan. 10 left four dead and another person with critical injuries. The crash took place at approximately 2 a.m. close to Industrial Boulevard and Main Street. The accident involved an Acura vehicle as well as a van. The four people killed were inside...

California motorists may be interested to know that Google robot cars are causing twice as many accidents as human drivers. These slow-speed accidents are due to the Google cars' overly cautious programming, which sometimes leads to human drivers hitting the robot drivers from behind. For now, Google would rather be too cautious...

As the population of California continues to age, driving habits on the state's roads have changed. Fortunately, research and experience both indicate that responsible drivers can continue operating their vehicles safely to a very advanced age, so long as they take reasonable precautions and recognize their evolving limitations.

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The wife and the mother of a 36-year-old man who was killed in a collision with a fire truck in California filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Nov. 20. The fatal car crash took place in Agoura Hills while the man and his wife were on their way to a wedding rehearsal...

A 22-year-old man died in California on Nov. 9 in what authorities believe was a single-vehicle drunk driving car accident. The fatal car crash took place in the Pauma Valley along state Route 76 near Adams Drive. People who called the California Highway Patrol to report the accident said that they saw...

In the first national campaign of its kind, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council are targeting underage drinking and driving with a series of public service ads that will appear in California and nationwide. The campaign was announced on Oct. 19 in conjunction with National Teen Driver Safety...

California residents have likely heard that four international students were killed and 15 others suffered critical injuries when a duck boat and a charter bus collided with each other in Seattle. The crash occurred on the Aurora Bridge on Sept. 24.

When the accident was reported, approximately 90...

California motorists may have heard that the massive recalls by General Motors, Toyota and other automakers in recent years are leading to the exoneration of drivers who were wrongly blamed for causing deadly car crashes. The actual cause of the accidents was undisclosed defective car parts.

In late August,...

California residents who have been in an automobile accident may not notice their injuries right away. In many cases, symptoms of whiplash such as neck or back pain may not appear for several days after the accident occurs. Furthermore, numbness of the hands or legs may also take several days to present...