A Public Service Announcement video created by a British police department features a dramatization of an accident caused by a teen motorist who’s texting while driving. The YouTube video has gone wildly popular with over a million hits, but has also generated plenty of controversy because of its graphic content.…
We Have Back to School Safety on Our Minds Thousands of school children across Georgia will be heading back to school after the summer break, raising concerns about accidents involving kids. As Georgia personal injury lawyers, we are concerned that the summer traffic lull might lead to a sense of…
Covington Driver Released after Fatal Pedestrian Accident Even as the family of 6-year-old Suk Maya Monger was holding a memorial service for the refugee girl who was struck and killed in a pedestrian accident, the motorist who struck her has been released from the DeKalb County Jail. Suk Maya was…
One Killed, Two Injured in DeKalb County Multi Vehicle Accident DeKalb County police are investigating a multi vehicle accident on Monday, that has left one motorist dead and two injured. According to the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, the driver of a pickup truck hit a Geo Metro, injuring at least one…
Atlanta Teens Get Crash Course in Accident Risks of Distracted Driving The nationwide focus on distracted driving was also in place in Atlanta yesterday as teenage drivers got a crash course in the increased risk of accidents when they are distracted behind the wheel. The distracted driving training course was…
Two people were seriously injured in a multi vehicle car accident in Evans in Columbia County on Monday. According to the Augusta Chronicle, the accident was set off when Evans-resident Gregory Teasley, who was eastbound on Washington Road, crossed the center line and struck the side of a GMC truck.…
Officials from the Georgia Department of Transportation will be looking at an intersection at Hart County which was the scene of a fatal car accident last month. An 81-year-old man was struck and killed as he was trying to cross the SR77 from the Lavonia connector in his vehicle. The…
Three teenage girls were injured on Wednesday in an ATV accident in Douglas County. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the three were riding an ATV on the street, and seem to have lost control of the four-wheeler when trying to turn a curve. All three were ejected from the…
But for good fortune, it would have been a repeat of the tragic Bluffton bus accident in Atlanta that killed seven people in 2007. A group of students from Michigan escaped serious injuries when their bus driver almost made the same mistake that the Bluffton University bus driver did. The…
Back in 2007, a bus accident in Atlanta, involving a vehicle carrying baseball players of Bluffton University, Ohio killed seven people on board, including five players, the driver and his wife. That accident was blamed on driver error, as well as the failure of the Georgia Department of Transportation to…