Car Accidents

For decades, the back seat was considered to be the safest. If you were involved in an auto accident, that is where you had the lowest odds of suffering from a severe -- or fatal -- injury.  For children, this is still true. Children should always ride in the back, in...

Many of California's main thoroughfares have heavy traffic. Auto accidents are common as a result.  Countless motorists have accidents annually that they walk away from unscathed. A small handful of them leaves motorists with significant injuries that forever alter...

If there's one detail most of us know about car crashes, it's that a person's life as they knew it could change in an instant. While many individuals walk away from crashes unscathed, others suffer debilitating injuries or die.  One injury that individuals suffer in...

If you have seen emergency medical teams pull people from car crashes, you might notice they use rigid, body-length boards. These are spinal boards designed to transport someone while maintaining their spine in a straight position. If you suffer a spinal injury in a...

As a parent, the most dangerous thing you can do with your child is to take them for a drive in the car. “Wait,” you say. Surely teaching them to dive into an empty pool or allowing them to open the emergency exit mid-flight is more dangerous than getting in the car?...

In car crashes, it’s common to see victims with traumatic brain injuries. These injuries can happen when they hit their heads on windows or the steering column, if an object pierces the skull or if they suffer from severe whiplash (which causes a coup-contrecoup...

Over the last decade or so, cars have gone through a very significant change. More and more advanced technology has been used with the goal of making the roads safer.  There are a lot of different examples of new safety tech, such as: Blind-spot monitoring systems...

All car accidents have a cause. In many cases, there are several factors that lead to the occurrence of a car accident. For example, a car accident may be caused by hazardous weather in addition to rush hour traffic and a tree that has fallen onto the highway. In this...

If you're a driver, you'll know that using a hand-held device is considered to be dangerous when behind the wheel. While you'll know it's frowned-upon, you might wonder why. It might be the case that you consider yourself a great driver, and you think that taking a...

California drivers may have recently traveled while they were drowsy. If so, they are not alone. The National Sleep Foundation says that half of all U.S. adults consistently get behind the wheel in a drowsy state of mind, and 20% even admit to falling asleep behind...