It seems that phrases such as “it was so unexpected” and “good things happen to bad people” always fall into conversation after a car accident. Like most tragic accidents, auto crashes happen when you least expect them.
No matter the time or the season, it is essential that you know what to do if you are ever in a car accident. The minutes—even seconds—after a car accident can prove crucial for your health, well-being, and future. [Read more…]
Car accidents are scary, whether you get hurt or you don’t. But, if you do get hurt in an accident caused by another driver this could mean you need representation to get the compensation you deserve for that injury.
Like with all cases, your argument in court will depend on the circumstances of the accident and the severity of the injury or injuries. Here at Stroud, Flechas & Dalton, we specialize in injury law and know the ins and outs of car accident injury.
Knowing the common types of injuries that can occur because of a car accident will help you determine whether you need legal representation to get the money for your injury that the at-fault driver’s insurance company won’t give you: [Read more…]
An affordable car is a good car, right? Well, economy cars aren’t scoring so well on the safety scale: 11 of 10 economy cars failed a new safety standard for front-end collisions. [Read more…]
An affordable car is a good car, right? Well, economy cars aren’t scoring so well on the safety scale: 11 of 10 economy cars failed a new safety standard for front-end collisions. [Read more…]
Northern Mississippi and the Memphis metro area have experienced an unseasonably cold winter thus far, with more frigid temperatures headed our way.
With the cold come freezing rain, ice, and snow, all of which make driving conditions more dangerous than usual.
Recently, an auto accident caused by ice in Memphis, Tennessee, pushed three women to jump off an overpass guardrail, falling nearly 40 feet to the ground.
According to a report from WMCTV in Memphis, 47-year-old Pamela Byrd Davis was driving home late one Saturday night when she became involved in a multi-car pileup on the Walnut Grove Road-Humphreys Boulevard overpass. [Read more…]
As an auto accident attorney in Southaven, Mississippi, I’ve seen the importance of wearing your seatbelt in many cases. Buckling up is such a simple precaution, yet so many drivers in Northern Mississippi and Memphis choose to avoid the safety measure altogether.
Why is that, you ask? I can’t tell you exactly why many people choose not to wear their seat belt, but I can give you statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Association.
Let’s begin with some positives: seat belt use in 2012 rose to eighty-six percent in the United States, up from eighty-four percent the year before.
Seat belt use across the country has shown an increasing trend since 1994, when it was at only fifty-eight percent. [Read more…]
The Mississippi Highway Patrol recently reported that the state saw only one car accident related fatality during the busy, and almost always deadly, Fourth of July holiday weekend. The state’s Highway Patrol spokesman Ray Hall said that one 56-year-old man from Canton was killed in a one-car accident near Camden. Apparently the man lost control of his van and ran off the road, hitting a pole.
The lack of fatalities may, at least in part, be credited to zealous enforcement by state police agencies. Over the holiday, Hall says state troopers issued some 3,227 traffic citations, arrested 95 suspected drunk drivers, and made 4 felony arrests. Over the same period Hall says state troopers investigated 47 traffic collisions. [Read more…]
A woman from Blue Mountain, MS was airlifted to the North Mississippi Medical Center after being involved in a terrible accident that left her with life-threatening injuries. According to police, the terrible accident involved a tractor-trailer colliding with a 1999 Chevy Lumina.
Mississippi Highway Patrol says that the accident occurred on Highway 15 as the couple attempted to turn left onto County Road 142. The couple, Jason Roe and Margaret Medlin, made the turn around 9 a.m. when they were hit by an oncoming tractor-trailer. The semi, a 2014 Freightliner, was driven by Danny Sanders. [Read more…]
Horrifying news out of AAA which recently discovered in one survey that nearly eighty percent of all car wrecks in Virginia are caused by distracted driving. The study, which focused on drivers along the I-95 corridor, also discovered that 20 percent of motorists admitted to texting while driving more than once in the previous month.
AAA says that while the survey was restricted to those driving along I-95, they believe the results can be broadly applied across the rest of the country. The automobile organization surveyed 900 drivers who frequently travel through the I-95 corridor and the results found that 20 percent admitted that they have nearly been involved in accidents due to their own distraction behind the wheel. [Read more…]
According to authorities, the driver was a sophomore place-kicker, Kevin Monzon. The 19-year-old is said to have died at the scene of the accident which took place in Lefore County, Mississippi. Troopers said that one of the passengers, junior Marcus Thompson, was critically injured in the accident and required a helicopter transport to a hospital in Jackson for treatment. Two other passengers in the car were less seriously injured and only required ambulance transport to the local Lefore County hospital. [Read more…]
