The worst care scenario has happened: While driving home from your kids’ baseball practice in Provo, Utah, a car runs through a red light while you’re exiting the freeway. An auto accident ensues — and although no one in your vehicle is hurt, the front end of your Subaru is pretty thrashed. The car is...Read More

Many drivers think hands-free devices will keep them safer and prevent an auto accident. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Talking on the phone and using hands-free devices can be just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, as texting and driving. Busting the Myth  Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” set out to prove whether or not using a...Read More

You might already be familiar with the bad alternative to texting and driving: voice-to-text and simply talking on the phone. But on the other hand, we also get that sometimes you have to communicate while you’re traveling, whether it’s coordinating who will pick up the kids from soccer practice in Farmington, Utah or deciding where...Read More

The risks associated with texting and driving are fairly self-explanatory; any time you remove your eyes from the road to read or send a text message, you put yourself, the occupants of your car and other cars on the road to St. George at risk for an auto accident. On average, 13 percent of drivers...Read More

Texting and driving is illegal in 46 different states and three U.S. territories. Law enforcement officials from the East Coast to Farmington, Utah have a difficult time catching repeat offenders. If you do get into an auto accident due to texting and driving, however, not even the best lawyer can help you walk away without...Read More

Choosing to text and drive has serious consequences. The most serious of these consequences is undoubtedly when the choice to text and drive results in an auto accident that causes the injury or death of the driver or another human being. Maybe a lawyer is simply driving from his or her home to the local...Read More

As far as single-vehicle crashes go, rollover crashes are some of the worst. While rollover crashes account for only three percent of serious crashes, rollover crashes account for 33 percent of auto accident fatalities. While larger vehicles such as pickup trucks, SUVs and vans are notorious for their tendency to roll over, any vehicle is...Read More

While the results of an auto accident caused by texting and driving can emotionally affect the individuals involved, the aftermath of a texting and driving auto accident can also have dramatic financial consequences. Federal Government  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that distracted driving costs the United States $175 billion a year. That’s an...Read More

Texting and driving: From Salt Lake City to the West Coast, everyone does it, right? Wrong. Okay, but what about teenagers? Aren’t they more guilty of texting and driving than almost everybody? Wrong again — although teenagers definitely contribute to the problem. Recent research indicates that older, wealthier men — typically those with a college...Read More

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31 percent of U.S. drivers ages 18–64 admit to texting or emailing while driving within the past 30 days. While taking a second to check that email or text message might seem innocuous, texting while driving is a major contributor to auto accident injuries and fatalities...Read More