13 people were injured when a Newton motor vehicle crash on Monday when a van drove into a stopped garbage truck at around 9am. Three of the special needs passengers sustained serious injuries. The Jaws of Life had to be used to remove the passenger in the front seat. At…
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the federal government needs to mandate that stronger rear guards be used on tractor-trailers and other big rig trucks. The underride guards are supposed to prevent smaller vehicles that rear-end large trucks from ending up under the larger vehicle. Unfortunately, the current…
Last month, we reported on our Boston Car Accident Lawyer Blog that 84-year-old Joao Amaral, who is wheelchair-bound, was injured when he was involved in a New Bedford truck accident. Amaral was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital in serious condition. Now, the news media are reporting that the elderly pedestrian…
The National Transportation Safety Board says that Massachusetts ranks among the worst states when it comes to adopting federal drunk driving recommendations because it has only put into effect just 4 of the agency’s 11 recommendations for keeping repeat drunk drivers off the streets. This news raises the question, is…
This week, the National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing to determine what needs to be done to prevent tanker trucks that carry hazardous materials from rolling over. The meeting comes nine months after a tanker rollover accident on I-465 last October that caused a massive fireball, destroyed a bridge…
One day after federal officials lifted the city of Boston’s ban on trucks transporting hazardous materials, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admission has given the city a 45-day extension on the ban. However, city officials don’t believe this is enough time to finish a safety analysis to justify the need…
Kayla Lackey’s mother Erin has reached a $1.8 million wrongful death agreement with Community Health Care Inc., a for-profit Massachusetts methadone clinic in Chicopee. Kayla was just 8 when she died in a Marlboro truck accident in April 2005 on Route 9. Stephen Fairchild, the driver of the pickup truck…
The Massachusetts House passed a measure that would not only bar drivers in the state from talking on handheld phones, but also would prohibit them from texting while driving. The bill is the latest attempt by lawmakers to decrease the number of distracted driving accidents. A similar measure died in…
The federal government has issued a nationwide ban that bars commercial truckers and bus drivers from text messaging while operating their vehicles. This ban goes into effect right away and any bus operators or truck drivers who are caught texting while driving are subject to a maximum $2,750 maximum penalty.…
A 2009 poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation reports that in the last year, up to 1.9 million US motorists have either been in a motor vehicle accident or were nearly in an auto collision because they were drowsy while driving. 105 million motorists admitted that they’ve driven while…