The bridges of southern Louisiana live up to their storied reputation. Driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, where neither shore of the lake is visible for a 10-mile stretch in the middle is a rite of passage, especially since, depending on which direction you drive, you either end up in Covington, where an unassuming roadside… Read More
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SUV Rollover Accidents Are as Bad as They Sound
The car-versus-SUV debate has been going on since the 90s when SUVs supplanted minivans as the preferred way for suburban parents to transport their children and their untold amounts of stuff. The debate seems to grow especially heated when it takes the form of choosing a vehicle for a newly licensed driver. Should the kid… Read More
Parking Lot Accidents
Driving is one of the most dangerous activities that humans do on a daily basis. Every time you park your car, you have averted catastrophe. People routinely get stressed about driving; it is only natural when you are trying to merge lanes on I-10 or turn onto a residential street that allows traffic in both… Read More
Drivers’ Ed Teachers Know Just What Caused Your Car Accident, Even if the Insurance Companies Do Not
Ask the attendees at a 20-year high school reunion to write the quadratic formula from memory or to create a quadratic equation from memory, and most of them cannot do it. The only ones who can are the ones whose jobs require them to teach math or to calculate the motion of falling objects. For… Read More
The Worst Time of Week for Car Accidents
In certain parts of Louisiana, the pace of life is so relaxed that it is easy to lose track of what time it is. The summertime in Houma feels like one long, lazy afternoon punctuated by fishing trips. During Mardi Gras season, you think more about whose turn it is to buy the next King… Read More
Rollover Accidents
Earlier this summer, a car overturned at an intersection on Northshore Boulevard in Slidell and blocked both southbound lanes of traffic. Media images showed ambulances and firetrucks next to an upside-down car in the middle of the road. The occupants of the car sustained only minor injuries, which is the kind of miracle that only… Read More
Underage Drunk Driving Accidents
Earlier this summer, a young man made a youthful mistake that cost two of his peers their lives. He consumed a moderate amount of alcohol and then drove. He was driving south on Highway 3090 in Lafourche Parish when he crossed the center lane into the northbound lanes and struck a car head-on. The accident… Read More
Are You Smarter Than a Self-Driving Car?
First things first, don’t panic. Do not expect a car to pull up to a red light next to you with nobody in the driver’s seat. While self-driving vehicle technology has advanced to the point that an unoccupied car could probably travel from Esplanade Avenue to Carrollton Avenue and live to beep its horn about… Read More
Is It Good or Bad If Your Personal Injury Case Goes to Trial?
Trials, or dramatizations of them, make for interesting viewing. The climactic scenes of many Hollywood films take place in a courtroom, and even before the advent of YouTube, there were entire TV channels dedicated to documentaries about criminal investigations and the ensuing trials. Now, if you want to binge documentaries and podcasts about trials, the… Read More
Three Dangerous Behaviors That Increase the Risk of Injury to the Central Nervous System
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause chronic headaches, visual impairment, memory impairment, difficulty concentrating, depression, irritability, or even changes to one’s personality and ability to speak. Spinal cord injury can cause paralysis, loss of sensation in the affected body parts, and sometimes even the loss of bladder and bowel control. Both of these devastating injuries… Read More