On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Oct 28, 2019 | Car Accidents
Congratulations, your teen is enrolled in driver’s education and soon will be able to drive. Your days of driving the “mom taxi” or “dad taxi” soon will be over! But wait…you’re probably going to need a car for your son or...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Aug 14, 2019 | Car Accidents
It has never been more important to look out for bad drivers and potentially dangerous driving situations. Distractions are omnipresent in nearly every vehicle – phones, dashboards with interactive features, eating and more. You don’t want to be a crash...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Jun 13, 2019 | Car Accidents
Rear car seats are traditionally safer than front seats, but in the face of recent car safety improvements, rear-seat safety is now lagging. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been making efforts to raise awareness of this fact, developing a series of...
| May 28, 2019 | Car Accidents
Ohio motorists may be interested in a recent safety report regarding self-driving automobiles manufactured by Tesla. Researchers with Consumer Reports stated that Tesla’s recent update of the Navigate on Autopilot feature is potentially dangerous to drivers....
| May 1, 2019 | Car Accidents
When it rains in Ohio, many motorists continue to drive at or above the speed limit, but it is important not to. Even a little rain can greatly increase the risk of a fatal accident involvement. According to a researcher at the North Carolina Institute of Climate...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Apr 18, 2019 | Car Accidents
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that in 2017, 10,874 people died in the U.S. due to drunk driving crashes. Every day, about 30 people in the U.S. are dying in such crashes. Ohio residents who own a Volvo car should know that the automaker has...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Mar 20, 2019 | Car Accidents
A lack of sleep often leads to fatigue, a grumpy attitude and difficulty concentrating. The negative impacts that sleep deprivation has on a person are well documented. Still, some Ohio residents feel that it’s okay to drive while they are drowsy. The research...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Mar 4, 2019 | Car Accidents
A new study suggests that distracted driving is factoring into more and more car accident fatalities. From 2015 to 2017, more than 1,400 people in the U.S. died in car crashes where one of the drivers was distracted by a cellphone. However, fatality rates differ by...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Feb 20, 2019 | Car Accidents
Motor vehicle accidents around the country in 2018 claimed more than 40,000 lives and left a further 4.5 million road users seriously injured according to preliminary figures released by the National Safety Council on Feb. 13. The nonprofit advocacy group based its...
On behalf of Beausay & Nichols Law Firm | Jan 22, 2019 | Car Accidents
Driving drowsy is unsafe, yet nearly one-third of respondents in a recent AAA survey admitted to doing so within the previous month. Their drowsiness, they said, was so bad that they could barely keep their eyes open. The National Sleep Foundation has compared the...
