Halloween in St. Louis Halloween in St. Louis is always a big deal! Parents are pretty familiar with the horror stories of unsafe treats and avoiding homemade treats. But, the biggest danger to trick-or-treaters is actually motor vehicle traffic. Motorists and pedestrians interacting safely this evening is the biggest concern…
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Back to School Traffic Zones So many schools have or are immediately preparing to return to session. Where has the summer gone?! Summer is never long enough, just as winter always seems too long. But, while we lament the ending of summer, we do need to be reminded of the…
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Distracted Driving Becoming a Old, Familiar Topic When most of us think about distracted driving, we think of those drivers who look at their mobile phones while driving. However, distracted driving can be any driving behavior that causes you take your eyes off of the roadway. These behaviors include time…
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Tomorrow is Opening Day for the St. Louis Cardinals: Be Safe! Cardinal Nation has been waiting months for opening day of the 2019 season. The game and festivities were to start today, Thursday; but due to the rain, the festivities have moved to Friday. Friday, the beginning of the weekend…
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March Maintains High Numbers of Head-on Collisions According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol motor vehicle incident reports, we studied the head-on collisions in Missouri for the months of January, February and March. January had 13 head-on collisions. In those collisions, there were 11 fatalities and 11 serious injuries. In…
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Plan Ahead for Safe Transportation after St. Pat’s Celebration You absolutely can have a GREAT time celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and be responsible. Simply making a plan for safe transportation after the party keeps everyone safe. We do not generally act responsibly once the drinking begins, thus do the responsible…
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Forty-Seven Vehicles Involved in Large Pile-Up As many people dig out of their driveways in northern Missouri, most of us are aware of the tragic multi-car pile up last Friday. A Platte City woman was killed and a 74 year-old driver was seriously injured. In the aftermath of this truck and car crash,…
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Predicted Snow Impacts Various Parts of Missouri Roadways According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, there were five car crash fatalities over the weekend. Local law enforcement also worked fatal crashes in addition to the MSHP. The northern portion of the state received quite a bit more snow than did the…
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Plan Safe Transportation Home–Our App Can Help with That! Download our free app Injury Attorney and you can order a Lyft, Uber or cab from your geographical area. Ok, so if you’re not going to Atlanta, chances are you are attending a Super Bowl party near your home. There will…
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Missouri is One of Only Three States that Currently Does Not Have the Ban— It is past time to join the rest of the country and take a serious position on banning texting and driving. Previously, we have written many articles on the dangers of texting and driving. Every one of…
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Over 800 Snow Related Crashes in Missouri While the snow predictions were between 2-10 inches; we did, in fact get hit by a snowstorm. There were more than 800 snow-related crashes that injured 57 people and killed four people in Missouri. The timing in which the storm came may have…
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Snow Predicted for Early Saturday Morning The National Weather Service predicts four to six inches of snow for the greater St. Louis area beginning on Friday evening. While the precipitation may be in the form of rain on Friday afternoon, but is expected to turn to snow in the early…
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Know How You are Getting Home Safely after the Party So, you know the Where and the When of your New Year’s Eve party, but unless safe/sober transportation home is planned— Planning is not complete. In order to make sure that the entire gang is here for the New Year’s Day hangover, one…
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Saint Louis, Second Most Dangerous City for Car Crashes There are many lists that St. Louis City wants to achieve, but being one of the most dangerous cities for car crashes is a list we would like to avoid. Two Midwestern cities made the list: Columbus, OH and St. Louis, MO. St….
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Snow and Ice Season is Here After a warm and rather short autumn, we were launched into winter over the weekend. If you are north of Interstate 70 this weekend, then you got a healthy dose of winter weather. Sunday, as many northern Missourians woke up to blizzard-like conditions, those in St….
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Fatal Crashes Should Raise Awareness for All of Us Of all of the troops at the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop A covering counties Johnson, Bates, Henry, Pettis, Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, and Saline worked a number of crashes including two fatal crashes and multiple injuries. Fatal Crash In Henry County…
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Happening in Missouri Getting your teen to always listen to you can be challenging! It’s a weird age for parents and teens to go through together. Teens are not adults, but they are no longer children. The teenage years are a time when teens seek independence, yet as a parent you…
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Wrong-Way Driver on Interstate 64 in January 2018 Crash In mid-October, an O’Fallon man turned himself in to police in connection with a wrong-way collision nine months ago that killed a St. Louis woman. On January 21, 2018, at approximately 7 a.m., a 56 year-old woman was killed in a wrong-way crash…
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National Voter Registration Day! The most patriotic thing you can do for your country is vote. Today is National Voter Registration Day and there are events nationwide today to make it easier for you to register to vote! Go into the website http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org and type in your zip code and it…
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Two Fatalities and Two Seriously Injured in Head-on Collision On Tuesday afternoon a 18 year-old Glasglow, MO woman was driving a Dodge Neon and crossed the center lane and struck a Ford Fusion driven by a 75 year-old Keytesville, MO man. Vehicles were traveling in opposite directions on MO 87, one mile north…
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Multiple Injuries and Fatalities Across Missouri in Car Crashes and Motorcycle Crashes According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, last weekend was dangerous for those on the roadways. There were many serious injuries and fatalities over the weekend involving car crashes and motorcycle crashes. Statistically, Labor Day weekend (just two weeks prior) has much higher crash…
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Planning for a Crash Does Not Mean You are Increasing Your Chances for a Crash Motor vehicle crashes make up 90% of our law practice, so I talk with dozens of people every day who have been in crashes. Statistically, you are more likely to be involved in a car crash (hopefully just a…
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Voting- Don’t Take it For Granted We each one have a civic duty as part of our participation in democracy. You may think your vote does not matter or that you don’t really have time to get involved in “civic duties”. However, when a democracy ceases to have individuals who do…
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