When a passenger vehicle and a large truck collide, the occupants of the passenger vehicle are usually the ones who end up seriously injured or killed. It's basic physics: large trucks generally weigh as much as 30 times as the average passenger vehicle. In addition,...
Month: November 2017
Bedbugs and holiday travel: How to be careful
A lot of folks travel during the holiday season, taking trips out of town to see family and friends anywhere between the middle of November through the early part of January. If you're among those people, be careful some uninvited guests don't come home with you --...
How can traumatic brain injuries be diagnosed among the living?
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been in the news quite a bit lately. Studies of deceased former National Football League (NFL) players showed evidence of the disease in almost every one of the bodies donated for the study. When former NFL player Aaron...
Beware of the hidden dangers of chest trauma after car accidents
Car accidents don't have to look bad to be bad. Sometimes people are seriously injured in a car accident and won't register exactly how bad off they really are until hours or days later. Blunt-force chest trauma, for example, can be one of those types of injuries. If...
When you are the only driver in the accident
We think of crashes as one vehicle colliding with another. A route to compensation is clear. The injured party files a claim against the driver who caused the accident. But there is another category: the single car accident. When you are hurt in a crash and there is...
Winter wonderland warnings: Slip-and-fall season approaches
Coinciding with the shopping season is the annual slip-and-fall season -- which puts holiday shoppers in more danger every year than they realize. When the owner of a building or property fails to take reasonable precautions to keep people from slips and falls,...