Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Santa Clarita

There has been a lot of contraversy regarding the current driving age and whether it should be raised for the safety of all drivers on the road. Teenagers are at a much higher risk of getting in an auto accident and/or dying in one than a driver over the age of 25. This story is every parent's nightmare and involves a teenage driver who did not learn from his actions. A New York teenager, Ralph...

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For many, the news that daylight saving time would begin at 2:00 a.m. PST on Saturday, March 10 came as a surprise. People were expecting the usual change on the first Sunday in April. The change came as a result of a little known provision of the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended daylight saving time by four weeks. Additionally, clocks will turn back an hour on November 4...

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It is a bit of a stretch to call what happened to little 2-year-old Emaralda Villa-Ulloa an accident. It is true that in all likelyhood her 23-year-old father, Jorge Villa-Rubio of northeast Salam, did not intentionally throw his baby daughter 40 feet in the air as his car failed to follow a sharp right turn, went off the road and rolled. The fact is, however, according to police, the childs...

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According to the state Division of Motor Vehicles, in 2006 fifty-four people died as a result of ATV crashes. Approximately one half of those incidents occurred off road. After such a high number of deaths last year, three bills have been introduced in the House of Delegates. These bills would place safety restrictions on riders. Additionally, the bills would require owners to register the...

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Louisville Metro Police officer caused the death of a man when he drove the wrong way on a one-way street. Derek Butler, 38, had just left choir practice when the incident occured. He died at the scene. The wife of the decedent filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court on Friday. Officer Jason Brown, the offending officer, who had his lights and siren on, stated that he did not know that he...

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There are few people who have not either been involved in an auto accident or who know someone who has. Car accidents-also known as road traffic accidents (RTAs), traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents, and crashes- kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number. It is estimated...

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A Stockton Police Officer struck by a car was not injured after responding to a domestic violence call on Tuesday, said police.Police responded to a call at 5:15pm to the 8400 block of Mariners Drive, where they were informed a man had dropped off his kids and then gotten into an argument with the mother, hitting her and another person.While at the scene taking the report, the man came back and...

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In Salt Lake City, leaders at City Hall are on the verge of proposing a helmet law that would require all adults to wear a helmet while riding a bike. The proposal got a unanimous thumbs-down from the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee (MABC). The Committee Chairman Lou Melini said that it wasn't so much that he was against the wearing of helmets, he just does not feel that it should be...

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The Institute for Highway Safety released a report today. The findings were that Americans who buy the smallest cars on the market are twice as likely to have fatal accidents as drivers of midsize and larger vehicles.Due to the increased sales of the popular fuel efficient mimicars, the tests were preformed for the first time by the institute. According to the report, the fatality rate in...

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Fifty-three million people are expected to hit the road between Christmas day and New Year's Day. With all the new technology that's in our cars, drivers are focusing less and less on what's in front of them. This year alone, 38 states proposed legislation to curtail distracted driving. Distractions come in many forms and may include dialing a number on your cell phone, looking at a billboard,...

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Early Monday morning a 28-year-old woman was killed when the car she was riding in crashed on north state Route 163 approaching Interstate 8 in Mission Valley, said authorities.A man was driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer at high speed when he lost control of his car, spun and veered left, striking the center divider on SR-163 at about 1:08 a.m. said CHP Officer Alicia Contreras. A passenger in...

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