Month: December 2014

When a Connecticut driver or passenger becomes involved in a severe car accident, there is always the potential that they may suffer a skull fracture. Skull fractures are always caused by an impact to the head, meaning that these fractures can be accompanied by a...

Car accidents that involve distracted drivers injure more than 1,100 people and kill more than nine people every day. Distracted driving involves drivers doing other activities behind the wheel that take their eyes and minds off the road and their hands off of the...

Connecticut drivers may be interested in some information about roundabouts, an alternative to the common signaled intersection in the U.S. This other type of intersection has many benefits, the largest of which is a reduction in total collisions and, particularly,...

Car accidents can have a toll on drivers in Connecticut and elsewhere in the country. Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed that traffic accidents cost $1 trillion in lost lives and lost productivity in 2010. In 2012, 33,561 people died...

Some Connecticut residents may have a poor understanding of what whiplash is. Whiplash is generally caused by a sudden acceleration followed by a sudden deceleration in a motor vehicle accident, causing the head to go violently forward and then back. Whiplash can...

No matter how skilled a Connecticut driver may be, they are always at risk for becoming involved in a car accident. This is because they have no control over whether other drivers pay attention to the roadway, whether a driver drinks and drives, or whether another...