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Lawyers Working to Help PTSD Victims Heal

Anna Henningsgaard had an experience with PTSD but had a hard time accepting it: ”A few years ago, I was in a rather serious car accident, and I experienced symptoms like these medical journals described. I would often upset myself by dwelling on the accident. I displayed obsessive behavior in that I avoided left turns wherever possible, even on deserted streets. I could not manage this out on country roads, but in the city grid I was careful to take three right turns instead of making just one left. Riding in a car that slams on its breaks still causes me to spin around and look behind for the car that always seems to be on the verge of collision. Was this Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?”

According to the census there were 10.8 million car accidents last year, a significant drop from 10 years ago (11.8 million), and vastly different since 1985 (19.3 million). (For more statistics on car accidents and car accident legal claims, see the Rosengard Law Group site. Still, most drivers have been in some type of car accident. Many of us have had resulting injuries and after an accident it’s normal to feel anxiety and stress.

But what do you do if you find yourself experiencing crazy amounts of anxiety? Reliving your car wreck over and over again? How can you tell if a friend or client is struggling with PTSD and what can you do to help?

Symptoms of PTSD

Stories about veterans might make traffic accidents seem like walks in a park, but every person has their own battle to fight. A case study portrays a patient who didn’t fully recover from his PTSD until 18 years after his traffic accident. This man’s story goes back to when he was 22 years old, he hit the abutment of a bridge and found himself pinned between his steering wheel and dashboard, experiencing severe pain, he lost control of his bowel movements, and constantly smelled leaking gasoline. After the accident he experienced severe symptoms of PTSD. His case was not as sever as Anna’s but it shows the spectrum of possiblity.

The most common symptoms include:

    • re-experiencing of event in thoughts, images, and/or dreams
    • distress when driving or inability to return to routine
    • sense of foreshadowed future
    • feeling of detachment or estrangement from others

If you have a client or friend experiencing these symptoms, perhaps when the news is on or you notice s/he isn’t driving himself around, it’s important to know how you can help.

How You Can Help

Let’s listen more to Anna’s story: “What I did need to do was to be proactive. I worked with the insurance companies to work out the claims. I spoke with my lawyer and found someone who wanted to buy and rebuild my totaled car so I did not have to consign it to a junkyard. I took responsibility for the situation and did not let it take control of me. It did hurt to think about my car for months, but I don’t obsess about it anymore”

If you can help your client or friend be proactive in their recovery from their accident and getting their life back on track, you can have a tremendous impact on their ability to deal with PTSD. The source of trauma disorders is that the victim doesn’t feel they have any control over their situation. By helping them feel empowered you can help them feel like they have control again. Back to Anna: “I felt overwhelmed after my car accident, but talking to an experienced car accident attorney helped me to answer my questions, address my doubts, and quell my anxiety. No pills required.”

Pave the Road to a Fair Settlement by Seeking Expert Help

If you have been a victim of auto accident and have suffered injuries, then you must always consider hiring personal injury lawyers for ensuring a fair settlement of your claim. You might not need need assistance for every auto accident claim, but for cases concerning accidental injuries, help is must.

You might wonder about what can go wrong in filing a claim on your own without any help. Well, actually nothing, but you certainly run the risk of not obtaining a fair compensation and the insurance company might get the better of you. Whereas, consulting and hiring legal professionals can change the entire game in your favor.

Here is a quick look at the top reasons that favor the choice of seeking assistance through lawyers specializing in personal injury cases:

  • Extensive knowledge of laws related to personal injury

It is to be noted that the laws related to such accidental injuries and cases vary between each state and it is not possible for a non-professional to have a strict grasp over the same. A person fighting the claim on his own might not know anything about the legal entitlement or the specific rules that might make him liable for a complete settlement. Such lack of knowledge can make him susceptible to false or improper claim. A legal professional having an experience of dealing with such cases can always pave the road to settlement of worth interpreting and applying the specific laws related to the particular case.

  • Ability of Negotiating a Fair Settlement

If you are fighting the case on your own, you always stand the chance of not being fairly represented by the insurance companies in terms of offering a financially profitable and worthy settlement. The reason is simple, most companies in the market try to draw profit from offering less compensation to injured people. Therefore, maximum companies offer an unfair settlement to people contesting the case on their own. However, an expert lawyer can always help you receive a fair compensation by negotiating with the company for a fair settlement.

  • Enables a fair representation to the victim in court

Most often, it is seen that people tend to seek assistance of the legal professionals only at times of disputing a claim. However, hiring an attorney early can help you save the hassles and pain of visiting the court every time alongside offering a fair settlement. An attorney dealing with personal injury cases can always help solve a dispute surrounding the accidental injury claim. Usually, the attorneys dealing with such cases offer consultation on a contingency fee, which implies claiming a certain percentage of the final amount of settlement.

Hiring an Attorney – The Right Time to Act

You must consider hiring personal injury lawyers when:

  • the injuries suffered from the accident are serious and can have long term effect

  • the involved driver was under-insured or uninsured

  • there is a dispute between you and your driver regarding the fault

  • there is a pressure to agreeing to a quick settlement from the insurance company

  • you feel not being fairly compensated owing to the case in terms of future and existing medical costs

If you find yourself on the wrong side of the case and feel that the compensation is just not worth your injuries, then it is time to change the direction in your favor with the help of legal professionals.

About the Author – Hiring personal injury lawyers can pave the road to a settlement of worth. An associate of Galan Law, James Galan, highlights the reasons of choosing a legal professional for fighting your case in court.

Falling Trees in Personal Injury: Frivolous or Fair?

In the United States there is an average of 31 deaths per year from falling trees. Many of these accidents occur during thunderstorms. But not all tree falling accidents result in death. Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General, had a tree falling accident that resulted in paralysis from the waist down in July 1984.

He and a friend were jogging down a road to take a break from studying when a loud crack roared and knocked Abbot down, breaking his back and a few ribs. It was months of surgery and rehabilitation before Abbot could go back to a forever changed lifestyle. In the meantime Abbott filed suit against the landowner of the tree and the arborist. It was a classic premise liability case, resulting in a settlement out of court in favor of Abbot. A life changing event for Abbot and a great example of how vital personal injury lawyers are to victims of nature’s chaotic tendencies.

What would you do if you found that your car had been struck by your neighbors tree or while driving, a rotten oak tree fell on your vehicle, damaging your car and you? With the stigmas out there about frivolous lawsuits, this might seem like a prime example. How can you hold someone responsible for a falling tree?

However, people need to be taken care of when accidents happen. In January 2010, Michael Burke from San Diego had his car struck by a tree in the morning. Later that same day, after pulling out his laptop from his damaged car, he was getting into his colleague’s car and another tree fell onto him. The blow almost killed him and left his legs crippled, unusable. He sewed the city of San Diego for their negligence to maintain proper care of city trees. The city paid 7.6 million for his past and future medical expenses and noneconomic damages.

This brings into to question the fairness of someone suing over a falling tree. Could it be considered the tree’s fault? Or is the person who owns the land responsible for making sure there are no possible liabilities on his or her property? As we’ve seen from Greg Abbott and Michael Burke, the proper perspective is the latter: falling trees are the property owner’s liability.

People need a way to make it down the road to recovery. If Abbot or Burke had not had a personal injury lawyer or the option to file suit, how would their situations have been different? Could Burke take care of his 12 year old, autistic son? Would Abbot have been able to continue his political career? Would cities and land owners never have noticed the liability of rotten or unhealthy trees?

Questions You Should Ask Your Personal Injury Lawyer

If you are quite lucky, you will live out the remainder of your life and never have to consider anything about a personal injury lawyer.  The only reason you will find yourself in the office of a personal injury lawyer is if you’ve sustained an injury, and usually they are pretty serious.  However, with that being said, you don’t want to show up at your lawyers office completely in the dark if you do have to go see one. Here are some important questions that you should plan out and remember ask to make the whole process roll along smoothly.

Do I Have a Case?

This may be the most relevant question for anyone who has been injured and is thinking about pursuing the matter legally. It is sometimes hard to tell if your case is worth fighting for, or if you even have a shot at winning. Since any self-respecting personal injury lawyer won’t even take any money unless you win a settlement, this is the best place to start.

By inquiring as if you if you have a case or not, you can quickly determine whether any more steps must be taken or if you can just pack it up and go home.  You will have to answer a lot of questions and probably provide a medical report and some evidence of what happened, but once it is all out in the open your lawyer will answer the question and you can proceed.

What Are My Chances?

If you indeed have a case and the personal injury lawyer is willing to take it on, you will then want to know what he thinks your chances are.  A lawyer of any kind can be quite expensive, so you want to ensure that fighting for your case will be worth it not only for you, but your lawyer as well. This question will have him draw on his previous experiences with similar cases, and some of the time they can answer you with a pretty good degree of accuracy.

What Do You Charge?

Just because you don’t have to pay anything unless the lawyer wins doesn’t mean you won’t be curious about how much that is. Lawyers can cost a lot of money, and usually the more experience your lawyer has, the more they will be asking for in terms of settlement. The thoughts of giving up a huge chunk of your settlement may be dancing through your mind.  If you ask your personal injury lawyer ahead of time, you will not be blind-sided once the case is closed.

What Happens Next?

If there is a case and he wants to proceed and you’re okay with the fee, you will want to know what happens next.  Do you have to gather any information or documents?  Will he approach the other party to try and settle before trying to get it into court?  Stay in close contact with your lawyer throughout the process, so you know what you should be doing at all times.  You don’t want to walk into court unprepared, or without documentation that would have helped your case. By keeping close communication with your lawyer, you can be the best prepared for your court date. If it all works out, you will have a cash settlement for your injury before too long.

Waste recycling firm heavily fined after death of worker in accident at work

A Brigend waste recycling firm has been fined and ordered to pay costs amounting to over £300,000 after the death of a worker at its waste site in December 2010.

Mr Geraint Eagle was working for his employer, Nolan Recycling Ltd, at the Old Quarry in Pyle when the accident occurred on 2 December 2010. Mr Eagle was cleaning sensors on a weighbridge – a large set of scales used to weigh trucks – when he was hit by a truck. Mr Eagle had lieing on the floor chipping hard mud from the sensors when a truck pulled up. He got up and moved out of the way but returned to his work at a later time. However, the lorry driver did not see Mr Eagle when he pulled away and ran him over. Mr Eagle sustained serious head injuries and was declared dead at the scene of the accident.

The incident was reported to the Health and Safety Executive, who conducted an investigation and subsequently recommended that the firm be prosecuted for serious health and safety breaches under UK health and safety legislation.

The matter came to the Cardiff Crown Court on 25 September 2013. The Crown Court heard evidence that the Health and Safety Executive had determined that there were a string of serious failures by Nolan Recycling Ltd, such as a failure to appreciate the risk associated with the site; a failure to give full instructions, guidance and training to staff; and a failure to monitor and supervise staff (among other failings). The company pleaded guilty to a breach of s.2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was fined £250,000 as well as being ordered to pay the prosecution’s costs of £53,100 – a total of just over £300,000.

Chris Hadrill, an employment solicitor at Redmans, commented: “The Health and Safety Executive found that Nolan Recycling Ltd had manifestly failed to comply with their legal health and safety requirements and that this had caused or contributed to the death of a worker. If companies fail to comply with their legal obligations and workers are injured then they could face heavy fines and orders to pay the prosecution’s costs.”

HSE Inspector Sarah Baldwin Jones said after the hearing: “This was a horrific incident with tragic consequences. It left Mr Eagle’s girlfriend without a partner, and his son, born eight months after the incident, without a father. There were multiple failings at the site, which should have been obvious and could easily have been addressed.”

Redmans Solicitors are employment solicitors in Kingston and can help employees injured at work claim personal injury

Health and Safety Executive cases this week – 16.09.2013 to 22.09.2013

In this post we’re going to take a look at Health and Safety Executive cases that made the news between 16 September 2013 and 22 September 2013. This includes a pharmaceutical company fined £100,000 after an employee was severely injured by being sprayed with bromide, a Runcorn boat manufacturer who has been heavily fined after an employee’s head was crushed at work and a Walsall firm fined after a worker fell over ten feet through a perspex roof

  1. Pharmaceutical company fined £100,000 after man sprayed by toxic chemical – A North East pharmaceutical company has been fined for a serious safety breach which left a worker fighting for his life in hospital. The employee, from Tyne and Wear, was sprayed with seven litres of bromine as he removed cables from a valve connected to pipework at Aesica Pharmaceuticals on the Windmill Industrial Estate, Cramlington, Northumberland. He spent 48 hours in a life-threatening condition after inhaling the corrosive substance and also suffered severe skin burns and damage to one eye. His employer was fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £7,803 costs.
  2. Runcorn boat manufacturer in court after employee crushed – A Runcorn-based boat manufacturer has been fined after an employee’s head was crushed against the top of a lorry container. Pyranha Mouldings Ltd was today (20 September) prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its factory on the Whitehouse Industrial Estate, which left the worker with a torn ear, three chipped teeth, nerve pain and several stitches. The firm was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay £6,652 in costs.
  3. South Devon property maintenance man forged gas records – A man who ran a property maintenance business has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out community work for forging the details of a Gas Safe registered engineer and carrying out illegal gas safety checks. Adrian Hunt, 42, carried out the compulsory annual safety checks on rented domestic properties in Dawlish, where he lives, on behalf of landlords and managing agents despite not being on the Gas Safe Register. He was sentenced to 120 days in prison, suspended for 18 months and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid community work. He was also ordered to pay costs of £5,000.
  4. Builder pays price for unsafe work – The owner of a Leeds building firm has appeared in court after two workers were injured, one seriously, when they fell from a mezzanine floor they were dismantling.
    One worker, then 61 and from Seacroft, broke two vertebrae and was in hospital for five days following the incident on 15 July 2012. He has been unable to continue working in the construction industry because of impaired lifting and carrying abilities. George Simms, of Ramshead Drive, Seacroft, Leeds, was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £3,210 in costs.
  5. Firm fined after worker falls eleven feet through roof – A Walsall maintenance firm has been fined after an employee was seriously injured when he fell 11 feet through a fragile roof during poorly-managed roof work in Nottingham. Stephen Bassford, 58, from Nottingham, fractured his pelvis, wrenched his shoulder and sustained severe gashes to his face and left elbow in the incident on 4 July 2012. He required extensive physiotherapy and stitches and was unable to work for four months. Data Contracts Specialist Maintenance Ltd, of Green Lane, Walsall, was fined £11,000 and ordered to pay £9,732 in costs

Redmans Solicitors are employment solicitor in Richmond London and can help injured employees claim personal injury

What to do before hiring a lawyer for your denied insurance claim

Insurance companies have been notorious for their unremitting ability to deny claims to those who need them most. We often hear about denials because the provider deems the situation not related to medical reasons but many times there can just be a simple administrative error that is keeping your claim from being accepted. If the denial isn’t an administrative error, healthcare reforms now make it easier for you to appeal and find out why your provider made their decision. If your attempts to appeal are unsuccessful you might need an attorney. First, here is what you do before you decide to hire a lawyer.

Stay Positive and Check Bill Coding

The good news about appealing your insurance provider’s decision is that there is a 50/50 chance your appeal will go through. Try to establish a positive attitude to work with the insurance providers. They are providing what you need. Although they might be making it difficult, work with them not against them.

First, grab your customer service number and find out why your claim was denied

It may be a simple administrative error or they could have deemed it medically unnecessary, but finding out why your claim was denied is important for writing your appeal. You don’t want to be sailing through the fog. Take the names of all the people you talk with and ask them to put in the record that you are working to resolve the issue.

The person you will be talking to on the phone is most likely a bottom level employee trying to do his/her job as best as possible and getting answers from a computer screen. If answers are unclear, ask to speak with a supervisor. Remember to always take their names.

Next, you’ll find out if it was an administrative error or a policy problem

If it’s an administrative error there are a few things you can do:

find out what type of error from your provider (often times there is a CPT or ICD-9 code that isn’t matching up with the information on your claim)
call your doctor’s billing services and ask them to make sure your codes are correct and tell them what you found out from the insurance company
If there is not administrative issue, let the hospital know you are working to resolve the issue. This should keep them from sending your bill to a collection agency.

If Coding Wasn’t the Issue, What Now?

Here’s where you’ll probably start grinding your teeth a bit but stay calm and keep working. This means your insurance company probably said that your claim was not medically necessary. You’ll need to go over your policy and find out why. You can find your policy on your providers website.

go over your policy and find the section that covers your case
print out this information and bring it to your doctor
find out if your doctor work your appeal and claim to fit your policy

Now It’s Time to Appeal

Click here for a step by step guide to the appeals process. If after you follow this process you still cannot get clearance from your insurance provider, it’s time to hire a lawyer and get the issue resolved.

Attorneys are well acquainted with this process and these issues. If you’d like some professional advice and help, attorneys can be the fastest way to getting through to insurance companies.

Jeremy Smith is a writer on behalf of McMinn’s Law firm in Austin, Tx. McMinn’s Law Firm is a personal injury and criminal law office that focuses on getting their clients back on track to their normal routine.

172 killed every month in road traffic accidents on Ghana’s roads

Shocking statistics regarding road deaths in Ghana have come to light, highlighting the terrible loss of life that occurs on a daily basis.

In the first half of 2013 alone 1,033 people have been killed in road traffic accidents and if that wasn’t enough; there have been 6,839 accidents on the country’s roads in just the first six months of this year.

Astonishingly that equates to an average of 1,139 road accidents each and every month, claiming the life of 172 people every four weeks.

As hard to believe as these figures may be, they actually highlight a reduction in road accidents and deaths on Ghana’s roads compared to the same period last year as 1,144 persons were killed in 7,172 accidents within the first six months of 2012 and In terms of serious injuries; 6,463 persons were injured in the first half of this year as compared to 6,965 last year.

Despite such a huge amount of deaths across the country as a whole, accidents are far from evenly spread throughout the nation. According to data released by the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service, Accra Region recorded the highest number of accidents with 2,481 accidents and 140 deaths – that’s almost a third. Whereas the Upper East Region recorded the lowest road accident cases with 71 accidents and 32 deaths in the first half of this year.

The extremely high figures come despite major efforts by Police and government officials to make roads safer for drivers and pedestrians and even the United Nations have set a target for Ghana’s roads over the next 17 years.

So why are there so many deaths on Ghana’s roads?

Much effort and investment has been put into Ghana’s roads in recent years and the surfaces and signage is noticeably better than it’s been for a long time. However, many road safety experts put the blame purely down to driver error and poor driving skills.

The Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) Police Commander, Chief Superintendent G. D Hlordzi, said 137 of those who perished between January and June 2012 were males, and 35 females

According to Chief Superintendent Hlordzi, there were as many as 972 accidents involving 1,516 private and commercial vehicles, as well as 127 motorbike crashes recorded in the region between January and June 2012.

In terms of accidents involving non-motorists; 136 pedestrians were knocked down between January and June 2013 compared to 213 last year.

“Most of the accidents on the road were human errors which could have been avoided if drivers complied with the road traffic rules and regulations,” he explained.

Though he went on to highlight the progress Ghana had made in this area, saying: “Gradually, we are getting to the United Nations target of reducing road fatalities by 50 per cent by the year 2020.”

Written by Matthew Crist in association with law firm Canter, Levin and Berg, who specialise in road traffic accidents.

Done in 60 seconds: Super cameras to be used on city streets

A new traffic camera is beginning to appear on the Britain’s streets – you have been warned!

The £17,000 night-vision devices have a battery of lenses and can catch up to 50 times more law-breaking drivers than previous models.

In a fresh crackdown on motorists, council chiefs in Manchester have installed 15 of these new devices on the city’s streets – with a promise of more to follow.

The camera’s official name is the ZenGrab LaneWatch Mk2 and they have been strategically placed on some of the busiest routes around the town in an attempt to capture drivers who may have previously evaded the law.

This new camera is an addition to the traffic light, bus lane and speed cameras which are already in use across the country.

During trials in London the camera, which is not required to display warning signs, spotted 1,076 contraventions over a four week period.

Footage is transmitted by 3G to council offices in less than a minute and then it is up to officials to decide whether to issue a £60 penalty charge.

The cameras have been used in London but Manchester is the first city outside of the capital to use them in such numbers – with many more councils showing an interest in the device.

Currently, such cameras are only used to catch motorists illegally entering bus lanes, but the very same images could soon be used by local authorities to punish drivers for making illegal U-turns or passing “No Entry” signs.

To date, speeding fines are now collected by local councils and money raised goes directly to the treasury. The proposed change to allow town halls to pocket revenue will ultimately lead to some critics claiming that the new cameras will be used to raise funds for councils rather than making the roads safer.

Councillor Nigel Murphy, Manchester council’s executive member for the environment, described the cameras as an ‘investment’. He said: “We are now able to monitor up to 15 bus lanes at the same time enabling officers to undertake other duties and ultimately saving the council money.”

But Eleanor McGrath, from the Tax Payers’ Alliance, said: “Manchester council is confirming what many drivers already think, that these cameras are more about raising money than keeping roads safe.

“Motorists, already stung for large amounts in fuel duty and road tax, cannot be blamed for feeling that they are being targeted as cash cows.”

This piece was composed by Matt Crist, a UK writer who specialises in motoring defence, motorcycles and the law, transportation and other assorted topics; to learn more about speeding offences visit motoringdefencelawyers.co.uk

Why Speed Calculation Matters in Relation to a Traffic Collision

Automobile accidents are always settled legally when the plaintiff establishes negligence on the part of the respondent. It is not necessary for the respondent to be driving the opposing vehicle, as responsibility for an automobile accident is assigned to the owner of the vehicle whose operator was judged at fault for the accident.

This past April, two pedestrians were killed after an impaired driver lost control of her Porsche in downtown Fort Lauderdale and jumped the sidewalk. Even though she was under the influence of a substance, witnesses pondered as to why she was driving so fast.

This scene has become a recurring nightmare across the country. Often victims are left searching for closure as they seek legal help to sort it all through. For instance, a Fort Lauderdale auto accident lawyer group or other community legal professional is suggested for individuals residing in the state of Florida.

This respondent is normally the driver, but the responsibility can also be placed on multiple parties. Many accidents such as head-on collisions are difficult to reconstruct without significant physical evidence, but some evidence can also present obvious logic. The guessing game, even for the experienced accident specialist, is a reasonable method for determining the speed of the vehicles.

Calculating Speed Limit Violations

Fault can be assigned immediately in any automobile accident if one motorist is violating driving regulations and others are all legally compliant. Multiple vehicle accidents can be adjudicated differently in terms of fault, but any illegality can be a determining material fact.

This condition is especially true when an at-fault driver is intoxicated. But, excessive speed is also an illegal act and can result in immediate fault assignment if the fact can be demonstrated reasonably in court. Speeding becomes an obvious reason for an accident when no other evidence is available.

What is a Traffic Collision?

It is not necessary for two vehicles to collide for a traffic collision to occur. Collision also happen to pedestrians, animals, and road debris. Striking any of these objects at a high rate of speed can result in a serious accident involving multiple drivers and passengers.

It is important to understand that hitting any pedestrian in any manner is always the fault of the driver unless the case facts contain mitigating circumstances that relieve the driver of negligence.

Speed limits are also a concern with pedestrian accidents because they generally occur in areas of reduced or slower speed, although that is not always the case. Many serious accidents have happened on the open highway.

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Accident Reconstruction 

All automobile accidents are investigated by the police department of jurisdiction and reconstructed by an accident specialist. The reconstruction specialist will look at all evidence available, including tire marks on the highway, and file an official written report on the accident.

The operating speeds of all vehicles will be determined as accurately as possible by the evidence gathered. This report becomes the standard by which the court makes a ruling after all respondents have filed their case arguments.

Individuals reasonably determined to be violating the speed limit will be held at least partially at fault, depending on the accident particulars. This can also include fault for wrongful death and long-term injury claims. Speeding is always contributory to serious accidents with multiple injured parties.

The traditional driving concept that speed kills may be the most valid of all cliches associated with driving. The highway can be a dangerous place, especially if driving regulations are not followed.

Driving beyond the speed limit is just as dangerous as driving under the influence of alcohol, especially in heavy traffic, and the two are deadly when they are combined with other highway dangers. Excessive speed is very often the ultimate causation of many serious accidents.

A traffic collision occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree or utility pole. Traffic collisions may result in injury, death, vehicle damage, and property damage.

Jamica Bell is a blogger and parent to new drivers. As a concerned mother, she stresses the importance of safe driving and maintaining the legal speed limit with her young motorist. Steinger, Iscoe, and Greene, a  Fort Lauderdale auto accident lawyer firm, has made it a point to defend the legal rights of individuals involved in car crashes and accidents.