Estimated death of 390 people due to traffic crashes over Labor Day weekend. Do your part to drive safely to reduce those numbers! It is hard to believe it is already Labor Day Weekend. Yet, at the same time, the last few months have seemed like years due to Covid…
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Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Release Report of Pedestrian Highest Proportion in past 33 Years The number of pedestrian fatalities have increased by 27 percent from 2007 to 2016 which is a startling number. According to a recent study, pedestrians now make up a larger proportion of traffic fatalities than…
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Two Fatal Motorcycle Crashes Occurred over the Weekend involving Passenger Vehicles Two fatal motorcycle crashes occurred over the weekend. Both fatal crashes involved other passenger vehicles striking the motorcyclists. A fatal motorcycle crash occurred Saturday evening in Warren County according to authorities. Around 7:30 p.m., a 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo…
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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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Eight Road Fatalities over New Year’s Eve Holiday According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, there were eight fatalities across Missouri over the 2019 New Year’s holiday weekend. Of those fatalities, two fatalities were pedestrian traffic fatalities. Of the six remaining car crash fatalities, all six were reported as not wearing seat belts. An…
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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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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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“Driving Under the Influence” As there are so many DUI’s arrests in the US, they become “common”. Sometimes people fail to think about the severity of driving under the influence. This is odd since most of us have been indirectly, if not directly, impacted by a drunk driver. In 2016, there were about 222…
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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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Head-On Collisions in Greater St. Louis Head-on car crashes are serious because the combination of forces of two vehicles colliding from the front. Where other crashes such as a rear-end crashes distribute some of the impact through the vehicle, head-on collisions combine the velocity of both vehicles. Two fatal crashes happened within 12…
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National Heatstroke Prevention Day is Today, July 31 While we have done many articles on children inadvertently left in vehicles to suffer death or serious injury, it remains a topic of serious concern. Whether or not you can personally understand how this can easily happen to any caregiver, we want…
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Independence Day Holiday–Most Dangerous Weekend on the Roadways Since the Fourth falls on a Wednesday this year, we may have two actual celebration weekends prior to the Fourth and the weekend following. While last weekend was horrible for road fatalities, the upcoming Fourth of July weekend is usually destined to be…
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Auto Insurance: Not a Sexy Topic Few people really like to talk about auto insurance except maybe those who sell insurance. No one brings up “insurance” as a fun conversation starter at cocktail parties unless you want to be left alone at a table. When I think about ways to spend my money,…
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Eight Road Fatalities Over the Weekend According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, there were eight fatalities which is unusually high for a non-holiday weekend. These kind of numbers are similar to a summer holiday weekend such as the Fourth of July weekend. There were eight different incidents, several of the…
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Pedestrian Struck on NB I-55 According to reports, a pedestrian was struck on northbound Interstate 55 around 6:30 a.m. today as he was putting gas into his vehicle. While no other information was immediately available, we assume the man was refueling his vehicle perhaps after it ran out of gas on the roadway. …
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