Study Indicates Rise in Elevator Injuries Among Senior Citizens Every year, thousands of elderly persons are injured in elevator accidents. That information comes via a study conducted by researchers at the Department of public health at the Indiana University School of Medicine. According to the researchers, elderly persons are likely…
Georgia Senate Passes Landmark Bill Requiring Pickup Truck Drivers to Buckle up On this very blog, we have frequently discussed Georgia’s failures in enacting mandatory seatbelt laws that include pickup truck drivers. The law relegated Georgia to the backwoods of traffic safety, with our state being the very last in…
Support Grows for Georgia Bicycle Safety Bill More than 1,000 bicyclists converged in Atlanta yesterday in a show of support for a pending piece of legislation that would create a safety zone around bicycles, preventing the risk of injuries and accidents. The bill is similar to other legislation already in…
Georgia SC Throws Out $350,000 Cap on Noneconomic Damages in Medical Malpractice Claims It’s been a while coming, but the much-awaited judgment that trial lawyers in Atlanta and victims of medical malpractice have been waiting for, is finally here. The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday threw out the $350,000 cap on…
Georgia Has Best and Deadliest Roads in the US A study published in Reader’s Digest magazine indicates dichotomies in Georgia’s road safety. The state’s roads are some of the best in the country indicated by their position at number 13 on the list. However oddly enough, Georgia’s roads are also…
The widow of a trucker, who was killed during a robbery as he parked his truck in an abandoned gas station, is spearheading legislation to allocate funds for truck stop and rest area expansion across the country. Hope Rivenburg’s husband Jason was shot on March 5, 2009 by a robber…
Last week, Google rolled out its new Google bike maps feature that does for bicyclists what it already does for motorists. The feature provides bicyclists quick and safe routes to get to their destination. Bikers have been calling for adding biking directions to Google Maps for a while now. A…
Baby slings, those soft and snuggly baby carriers that are all the rage, have now come under the microscope at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency is expected to make an announcement later this week, warning about the special risks of suffocation to babies, especially newborns, who are placed…
The female motorist, who was driving a car in Gwinnett County during a fatal drunk driving car accident that killed a three-year-old child, has now been officially charged. Twenty-six-year-old Alicia Tubman was allegedly driving intoxicated on January 11th, when she lost control of her car, and it struck a fire…
An eight-year-old girl has suffered critical injuries in an attack involving two dogs outside her home in DeKalb County. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Erin Ingraham was playing outside her home on Tuesday afternoon when she was approached by two Staffordshire Terriers. The dogs attacked her, and officers who responded…