Car Accidents

Following a road accident, people usually resort in hiring a lawyer to settle things legally with the help of professionals apt to the job and settling is their number one priority is imperative, the essence of hiring lawyer is to claim their financial compensation according to the damage dealt to their property (vehicle), physical, mental, and emotional damages as well.

But, before a victim is rewarded with his longed-for compensation pay are long months of negotiation, court meetings, and arrangements involving the other party and a local jurisdiction which is tiring if you are going to think about it. With this given, some people involved in a road accident tend to find another means to settle it without the involvement of lawyer such as helping the other party to go to hospital and pay for their bills or pay them monetary compensation for the repair of the vehicle, though these are only applicable when dealing with a minor accident.

Generally, driver’s license is granted among citizens in United States at the age of around 16 and given that the tendency of people to purchase cars around that age or given as gift for their teens is high and usual making the population of teen drivers high and might rival the numbers of adult drivers aging 19 and above. The need of teens of having a car is pretty high as they utilizes it for transportation for either work or school, a long term investment in decreased expenditure for supposedly commuting expenses which is a good idea but a dangerous one if the teen who has access to a car is not guided properly and warned about the risks exisiting along the road.

One of non-tangible and undetectable damage that a car accident can deal an individual is memory loss which is a common linked effect following a car accident that is usually caused by violent force applied to regions of head in the occurrence of an accident. Victims of an accident who suffer from an apparent memory loss forget what happened before, during, and even after the crash. Usually, there is a slim chance that it could be a symptom of a more serious condition to the head such as traumatic brain injury or TBI. These type of injury and including other neurological and internal disorders are left unchecked, it could develop in to a long term health condition which could affect one’s life.

Driving impairment or driving under influence by either drugs or alcohol has significantly increased in the last few years naturally. These drugs affect a driver’s sense of verdict when on road, impaired senses in general which lessens reaction time specifically, and even motion and movement issues occur sometimes. Most common drugs that are used by drivers as well as according to police records from the caught DUI drivers are cocaine, heroin, meth, and marijuana. Damage is apparent from DUI as in 2016, the authority has recorded 10,497 fatalities linked to alcohol-paired driving crashes and drug related effects which accounts for almost 30% of all traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. and more than 1 million drivers were arrested for driving under influence of alcohol or narcotics which is crazy high.

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), aggressive driving is described as the set of behavior of a road user who disregard committing traffic offenses to an extent where she/she would endanger other road users and/or individuals’ lives or property. It is a general knowledge that an aggressive driving is a moving and thinking threat for us, other road user and distinguishing one is easy and is imperative to immediately avoid that specific driver because of our road experience. As normal drivers, when we get behind the steering wheel, we thought of heavy responsibility of safety and accountability while on contrary, aggressive drivers don’t and render surrounding road users to be less safe and inflict mental and morale damage.

There is no telling when does a car accident would occur and this fact alone is scary enough and addition of the real accident numbers. Every year, more than 38,000 people die from traffic road crash along U.S. roadways and placing its fatality rate of 12.4 deaths per 100,000 in population and has been one of the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people aging 1 up to 54. This numbers exclude injuries sustained by americans which is around 4.4 million serious injuries that require immediate medical attention in yearly scale as well.

Law enforcing jobs has the most difficult occupation that are acknowledged and respected by many as aside from fending off the society from harm and dangers, they also maintain the safety and minimizing the damages while doing their jobs. Mental preparation and physical requirement is a must when working on such as the occupation puts its person in claws of danger almost every day but what if those law enforcers were involved in an accident, may it be intentional or unintentional?

Every teens dreamt of driving during night to make fun on the streets with their friends and get wild or do things that makes them who they are without watching them and getting scolded at or purposely go out at night to meet their person riding on a car, which most of us adults have experienced either one of that back then. We meant it, it had caused some serious problems on our parents’ ends and has never let us do those type of things again and up to these days, teens’ night time driving has received multiple backlash because of its involvedment in headlines for being linked to car crashes.

In cities, where all types of things move so fast that no one could notice that it has moved from place to another. Cars in busy roads and even not so busy roads are a lot and may cause multiple events, either bad or good outcomes. Even with the smallest detail in a road could cause an accident, this doesn’t excuse a manhole. A manhole could potentially be a risk and a presence of hazard along road when goes crooked and may obstruct a car or may be ran over by a car and may cause a form of car accident. Manhole can become loose due to heavy cars’ vibration while they pass the road and they are usually left unchecked oftentimes as they are given less attention as they are just covers to be frank.

In this recent weekened, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP), 13 were killed along Ohio’s roadways in 10 different crashes that are all deemed fatal which were all gathered in a 5-day coverage surveillance of road by the authority started from November 24 or this last wednesday until November 28 midnight. According to the detailed release of the patrol, of the 13 person died, one was found out to be a pedestrian, four of them were driving unrestrained, while the other three crashes were said to be caused by impaired driving. The troopers arrested more than 300 people for drunk driving offense while 147 for drugs consumance while driving.