Automobile Accidents

• Bicycle Accidents and Ways to Avoid Them

  Ed Smith | November 01, 2006 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Out of the roughly 44,000 car accidents that occur in the United States every year in which someone was fatally injured, over 800 involve persons riding a bicycle, according to Michael Bluejay, in his publication entitled "Ten Ways to Not Get Hit" Hundreds of thousands more bicyclist accidents result in hospitalization every year for collision related injuries.Some of the suggestions made...

• Starting Points for Research on Bicycle Accidents

  Ed Smith | October 31, 2006 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  There's some good basic text's available for an attorney who is handling a bicycle accident case. BICYCLE ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION FOR THE FORENSIC ENGINEER is useful in determining the causal factors of bicycle accidents. The autor, Jim Green, is a professional engineer and triathlete with 20 years experience in reconstructing accidents.Another useful text for the attorney is the book BICYCLE...

• Bicycle Accidents and Injury Patterns

  Ed Smith | October 30, 2006 7:51 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  An article in Accident Analysis and Prevention Magazine (1990) analyzed 649 emergency room treated bicyclists injured in the summers of 1985 and 1986. In police reported accidents, 85% of the bicycle drivers were male and 2/3 suffered moderate or worse injury.

• 11 Year Old Lodi Boy in critical condition after truck accident

  Ed Smith | October 29, 2006 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  An 11 year old Lodi boy was struck by a truck driven by a hit and run driver Thursday evening. The boy was crossing Lodi Avenue at Cherokee Lane when a pick-up truck rounded the corner and struck him. The boy was taken to UCD hospital in critical condition. The red truck was described as an 80's or 90's GMC or Chevrolet with a white stripe on the bottom and a toolbox in the back.Police asked...

• Fatal accident at Arden Garden connector

  Ed Smith | October 24, 2006 1:20 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  On Monday, October 23rd, a fatal accident occurred at 7:50 PM at the Arden Garden Connector. The driver of a silver BMW lost control and hit a light post. Police are seeking anyone who witnessed this accident. You may call the Sacramento Police Department at [916] 264-5471.

• Accidents and Attitude

  Ed Smith | October 23, 2006 7:47 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  This weekend, I was fortunate to meet an extraodinary young man, Hal Elrod, who was speaking in my local East_West bookstore. Hal aka "Yo Pal Hal" (long story) was involved in a horrendous accident in 1999. At the time of his accident, Hal, at age 20, was one of the top salesmen in the nation for Cutco. After a speaking engagement one night, he was driving home and was hit head on by a drunk...

• Woman Stable after Pleasant Hill Crash

  Ed Smith | October 23, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  On Sunday evening, October 22nd, a driver southbound on Pleasant Hill Road, lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a house in the 1500 block of Pleasant Hill Road at Camino Verde. The 22 year old driver of the car, Briana Christensen, a Walnut Creek resident, was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek with a concussion and facial abrasions, Yox said.

• 3 Vehicle Crash on Hwy 16

  Ed Smith | October 20, 2006 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  On October 9, 2006 at about 6:30 a.m. a Crash on Hwy 16 involving a Big Rig, School Bus and a Jeep was reported. The driver of the jeep had been driving erratically trying to pass the big rig, he suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to a hospital. On the bus was also a student that received injuries to the head.

• Assessment of the pregnant trauma patient

  Ed Smith | October 17, 2006 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Often attorney's intake new clients whoese pregnancy is, in some way, affected after an accident. This article reviews the physiology of pregnancy, discuss recent changes in assessment and resuscitation, and identifies special injuries and issues specific to the pregnant trauma patient.

• Truck Drivers plead guilty to falsifying logbooks.

  Ed Smith | October 16, 2006 1:14 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  10-13-06 Five truckers pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying their driver's logs, bringing to an end a major federal investigation of the practice in the commercial-trucking industry. This was the culmonation of an operation known as "Operation Safe Roads" begun in 2003 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, whose regulations include limitations on the number of daily driving hours...