Car Accidents

When you walk onto a new car dealership’s lot, the biggest, boldest vehicles are the pick-up trucks. Automakers put a lot of effort into making pick-ups imposing eye candy with serious towing power, optional four-wheel drive, large dashboard screens and comfortable...

A car accident with another passenger vehicle can cause serious physical injuries to the victims. An accident between a passenger vehicle and a commercial truck, like an 18-wheeler, can result in catastrophic injuries with a lifetime of consequences. A catastrophic...

Car accidents can happen anywhere and at any time. While the number of people injured in car accidents has been on the decline in Louisiana in recent years, more than 10,500 still suffered serious injuries in Louisiana auto accidents in 2019 and 754 people tragically...

Some situations that lead to severe car crashes aren't easily preventable. For example, you can't avoid getting behind the wheel anytime it's windy or rainy. However, a significant number of crashes that occur every year are the result of bad decision-making or poor...

Some Ford vehicles of relatively recent vintage know the inside of company dealers' repair departments quite well.And for good reason: They've been there multiple times for the same issue. The auto industry publication Car and Driver spotlights that issue - a serious...

And that's not that's all bad. Notwithstanding developers' overt disappointment that self-driving cars aren't a flatly done deal on America's roadways, the gains made thus far are still impressive and bode well for the future.Granted, they have turned out to be far...

Fewer deaths to any degree is a flatly positive development, and Louisiana safety regulators are duly recognizing that fact. State Highway Safety Commission Executive Director Lisa Freeman noted to an audience last week that Louisiana's traffic fatality rate is "the...

As they say, "If you blinked, you missed it."What specifically emerged and is now in the proverbial rear-view mirror is National Child Passenger Safety Week. That specially designated time period is spotlighted annually, and for obviously compelling reasons. Because...

If you're a forward-thinking person who is an avid self-driving car enthusiast, you might want to temporarily park visions of partying soon in the back seat of a driverless vehicle.Here's why: Empirical evidence points to accident risks involving autonomous cars that...