Any motorcycle is at a disadvantage in a collision with a four-wheeled vehicle, but are some bikes safer than others? The parents of what the media euphemistically calls “affluent teens” spend countless hours watching YouTube videos about which car or SUV will best protect their little darlings in a crash, but should motorcycles, a rougher… Read More
Louisiana’s New Statute of Limitations for Personal Injury Lawsuits
The people of Louisiana are not known for their haste. While the folks in New York rush from the subway station to their offices on their morning commute, the people of New Orleans wait patiently for the streetcar on the city’s one and only streetcar line, and even after they arrive at their stop, they… Read More
School Bus Accidents
School buses seem safe until you think about them carefully. Almost every vehicle on the road has seat belts, except for the cheery, yellow school bus. Instead, children sit two or three to a bench seat, and everything is fine until the bus makes a sudden stop. When the bus stops to let the students… Read More
Three Underrated Car Safety Features to Be Grateful For
Some people are aficionados of classic cars. Your grandpa can probably tell you about every gear and every knob in the first car he ever drove; maintaining his car probably made him feel as cool as driving it did. A lot of young people have never known the feeling of sliding across an expansive leather… Read More
The First Years of Driving are the Most Dangerous
First-time parents are acutely aware of the dangers the world has in store for their infants. The parents cannot fall asleep if there is a pillow in the baby’s crib, even if the baby is swaddled and the pillow is at the far end of the crib. Babies who have just learned to crawl are… Read More
Collisions on Bridges
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
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