Ohio traffic officials and safety experts, along with their counterparts throughout the rest of the country, focus on improving the safety environment as the primary means for reducing car accidents and safeguarding motorists’ lives. The emphasis is on improved road construction and engineering, logical signage, stronger and more stable vehicles, as well as laws…
When Clarence Ditlow says that, “This is an accident waiting to happen,” the Executive Director for the Center for Auto Safety is not referring to a drunk driver about to get into his or her car or a hazardous road condition that increases the risk of car accidents. Rather, he is referring to the…
Ohio-based Bendix Corp., a major truck-parts manufacturer, could potentially emerge as the primary beneficiary of a mandated standard on rollover- stability technology to prevent truck accidents expected to be announced after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) finishes research studies. The NHTSA has long been focused on large trucks and their propensity to…
A Licking County courtroom in Newark was the venue in which a final outcome was reached last Friday in the legal resolution of a tragic car accident that occurred slightly more than three years ago near the city of Pataskala. Shortly after midnight on June 15, 2008, an 18-year-old woman was driving back to…
We noted for readers in a previous blog post (May 31) some of the stark statistics related to motorcycle accidents in Ohio. Between 2008 and 2010, for example, more than 11,000 motorcyclists were injured on state roads, which seems a flatly remarkable number. Moreover, well more than 500 of those riders died as a…
Thirty states and Washington, D.C., have a texting-while-driving ban that it is believed serves as a strong deterrent to irresponsible behavior and greatly reduces tragic outcomes from car accidents and roadway fatalities. Ohio is not among them, but that is not for lack of trying. An anti-texting bill passed through the Ohio House last…
Ohio State Highway Patrol spokespersons frequently weigh in with public announcements concerning the importance of motorists and their passengers wearing seat belts at all times when they are in a vehicle, and they buttress their admonitions with statistics that stress the inordinate number of fatal car accidents involving persons that were not belted. Two…
“If there weren’t a lockout, I’d be in Cleveland,” says National Football League defensive lineman Travis Ivey of the Cleveland Browns professional football team. Instead, Ivey is at the University of Maryland’s football training facility, working through an injury that, absent the current lockout facing players, he would be rehabilitating in-house with the Browns’…
Saying that, “We were seeing a disproportionate number of African American and Hispanic children coming into the hospital with severe crash-related injuries,” Dr. Rebeccah Brown of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was part of a team that created a safety program called Buckle Up for Life in 2004 that centers on reducing injuries to…