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Poor economy may contribute to lower drinking and driving numbers
Drinking and driving remains a major cause of car accidents in Louisiana. According to CBS News, Louisiana has the fifth highest rate of drinking and driving incidents in the country with 728 episodes of drinking and driving per 1,000 people. Even though drunken...
Reebok settles product liability suit with the FTC
The athletic shoe and apparel company, Reebok, has decided to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over product liability issues that stem from the company's toning shoes. Reebok promised consumers that their RunTone running shoes and EasyTone walking shoes would...
Failure to yield major cause of car crashes in Louisiana
The failure to yield is a major cause of car accidents in Louisiana. According to the Louisiana State University Highway Safety Research Group, the failure to yield accounted for the second leading citation drivers in Louisiana were hit with last year. Drivers who...
Some smartphone apps may help prevent car accidents
When you drive around Lake Charles, how often do you see people texting and driving? How often do you see people paying more attention to their cellphone than the road in front of them? There is no doubt that cellphones cause distracted driving which increases the...
Environmental laws give landowners moment to pause on natural gas drilling leases
Landowners in rural, upstate New York have been given moment to pause over natural gas drilling leases thanks to environmental law. Over the last few years, many landowners entered into natural gas drilling leases with energy companies, but a number of the landowners...
More cable barriers in Louisiana to reduce head-on car accidents
Every year people traveling the highways in Louisiana are hurt or killed in car accidents. One of the worst types of car crashes is a head-on collision, and the impact of a head-on collision is made worse on the highway because of high speed limits. To reduce the...
Final 9/11 wrongful death lawsuit settled
The final 9/11 wrongful death lawsuit was settled last month. The family of a professional hockey scout decided to settle the wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the events of 9/11 after they made public as much information as they could about what they viewed as...
Graduated driver’s license laws produce mixed results when it comes to car accidents
Every state including Louisiana has graduated driver's license laws. Though every state's graduated driver's license laws are different, the overall point of the laws is to reduce the number of car accidents among teenagers by requiring greater experience before an...
To Reduce Accidents, NTSB Recommends Phone Ban for Truckers
The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended to all states including Louisiana that truckers and other commercial drivers should be banned from texting and cell phone use while behind the wheel in order to prevent and reduce truck and car accidents....
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