Category Archives: Car Accident
Calhoun County Teen Faces Manslaughter Charges After Fatal Collision
If you can get through your first year as a licensed driver without getting into a major wreck, you are off to a good start, and it will likely be smooth sailing as your years of a clean driving record add up and your insurance premiums decrease. Early driving career collisions can be devastating;… Read More »
Tips For A Safe Holiday Road Trip
When you are a child, you look forward to the winter holidays with unbridled enthusiasm. All you can think about is your Christmas stocking and the endless parade of sweets. Once you grow up, the annoyances and dangers of the holiday season become more obvious to you. Holiday travel, in particular, seems like an… Read More »
Holiday Season Begins With Deadly Thanksgiving Weekend
You can tell that the holiday season is upon us even when the weather is warm and you are too broke to buy gifts or attend parties. You can tell from the sickly sweet, and invariably secular, Christmas carols that play on the radio in restaurants and supermarkets, the ones that ruin your mood… Read More »
The Post Hoc Fallacy And Car Accident Cases
Learning about the various types of flawed arguments is arguably the most fun part of high school A.P. English. One of these flawed arguments, technically known as logical fallacies, is the post hoc argument. The Latin phrase post hoc ergo propter hoc means, “After this, therefore because of it.” These arguments are flawed because… Read More »
These Minor Driving Mistakes Are More Dangerous Than You Realize
The worst accidents, the ones that make the news, tend to result from the most egregious driving mistakes, such as driving at twice the speed limit or driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Of course, most drivers would never be reckless enough to do those things, but almost everyone gets in a… Read More »
City Streets Pose Dangers For ATVs
All terrain vehicles (ATVs) are a popular form of recreation in South Carolina, but they carry considerable risks. Some ATVs have three wheels, making them the tricycle equivalent of a motorcycle, while others have four wheels; thus, they resemble an amusement park go-kart, except with handlebars instead of a steering wheel. As with motorcycles,… Read More »
Passenger Injured In Single Vehicle Collision After Police Chase
If you get injured in a car accident where you were a passenger, you have the right to seek compensation for your accident-related medical expenses and other financial losses associated with the accident by filing an insurance claim with the at fault driver’s liability insurance policy or filing a lawsuit against the at fault… Read More »
How Much Insurance Settlement Money Can You Expect After Common Car Accident Injuries?
If you think that medical treatment is unfairly and absurdly expensive, you are right. You are also right if, even with your unimpressive math skills, you can tell that the amount the insurance company is offering you as a settlement after a car accident is much less than the total of the medical bills… Read More »
3 Interpersonal Skills To Unlearn When Talking To Car Accident Claims Adjusters
More than the warm weather and the relatively low cost of living, the appeal of living in South Carolina is the Southern charm, the easy conversational interactions with people you meet in everyday situations. To the annoyance of New Yorkers and the perplexity of Europeans, it is nothing unusual to see a cashier and… Read More »
Family Of Man Struck By School Bus Receives Settlement After Wrongful Death Lawsuit
High school students start to feel like adults when they can drive themselves to school, their phones connected to the car’s audio system and blaring music that no parent or bus driver would ever tolerate for the entire duration of the ride from home to school. You can only get to that point by… Read More »