Car accidents are quite common on roads across the country, and, these can result in permanent injury or death. Annually, the number of collisions averages 6 million, with 3 million drivers, passengers, and pedestrians being injured nationwide. About 2 million drivers experience a permanent injury each year and more than 90 people are killed every day. In California, with approximately 13 million vehicles on the road, the risk of being in an auto collision is very real. Should you be involved in a traffic accident, there are things you should do, but more particularly, things you should Things You Should NOT Do After Getting into a [...]

It’s not exactly hard to quickly identify multiple traffic-related risks of outsized proportions that threaten high numbers of California motorists in Ventura County and elsewhere across the state. Concededly, though, it’s a bit more difficult to point to a ready funding source to alleviate those problems. […]

The so-called “social contract” that is a bedrock principle underlying American life hinges much on the idea that reciprocal duties and corresponding behaviors between citizens and government entities promote necessary predictability and safety. In other words, there’s a give-and-take mentality at work. […]

For obvious reasons, every type of vehicle accident has the potential to be serious. And that is especially true concerning rollover crashes. […]

It is certainly food for thought to see the word “only” in a sentence that refers to the 2,739 traffic deaths that reportedly occurred on California roadways in 2010. By any measuring stick, that number would seem notably high and remarkably sad. It equates, on average, to more than seven people dying in motor vehicle accidents on state roads every single day of the year. […]

It depends on who you talk to. Whether things are getting better or worse on California’s highly varied roadways — that is, from a safety perspective — seems to be, well, variable and just a bit hard to pin down with any certainty. […]