Drivers understand that certain choices and behaviors on the part of the person behind the wheel can have a grave impact on their safety. Distracted driving behaviors like texting while driving received a particularly bad reputation in recent years. But what about...
Distracted drivers fail to focus on the road, causing them to miss potential safety hazards and react slower to changing traffic conditions. This behavior can have dangerous and deadly consequences. North Carolina has laws prohibiting drivers from texting or emailing...
From drunk drivers to poor weather, you face many traffic accident risks on the road. Sadly, many serious accidents take place as a result of speeding, and drivers who cause a crash as a result of their failure to follow traffic safety guidelines must answer for their...
Getting in a car accident is enough to jar your confidence for quite some time. At first, you may doubt your ability to feel comfortable driving ever again. Psychological trauma is a completely normal effect after an unexpected accident. Recognizing signs of angst can...
To protect your children while behind the wheel, you need to have a car seat or a booster seat. The most common causes of death for children under the age of 13 are car crashes. Car seats save about 325 children per year. According to the NHTSA, each age group belongs...
It is likely that, at least once in your life, you have encountered a driver under the influence of road rage. Even though driver's education instructs that everybody should drive defensively, plenty of motorists never took this lesson to heart. Encountering an...
During the summertime, North Carolina’s roadways see an influx of teenage motorists, many of whom are new to driving. When schools are out for the season, teens tend to spend much more time on the roads, and this means increased risks for everyone sharing the road...
Part of driving is learning how to avoid the most common types of accidents. Even though not every accident is preventable, there are a few things that you can do to avoid the majority of them. Whether it is a rear-end collision, hitting a parked car or crashing at an...
A car accident in North Carolina can wreak havoc on a lot of areas of your life. Property damage, physical injuries and emotional shock can last for several weeks or even months. One of the tricky parts of physical injuries is that you may not recognize you have...
Mention the term "car accident" to most people in North Carolina, and one will likely hear stories of crashes caused by the extreme negligence or carelessness of others. There is good reason for such an assumption; indeed, many car accidents involve just that. Yet not...