Search Results for: TEXTING

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How many times has the following happened to you? You’re driving, and talking on your cell phone, (which you shouldn’t be, in the first place.) You drive over a bump and the phone slips out of your hand, into the Netherworld – the black space between the middle console and your driver’s seat. Most people, […]

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Sometimes the worst things happen, when you least expect it. Imagine that you’re out driving safely, minding all the road signs and traffic lights. You’re behind the wheel, observing all safety regulations, your seat belt is on, and you are neither texting while in the driver’s seat nor are you drunk. Everything seems just fine. […]

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As a Westwood accident attorney, I see many cases of negligence, wrongful death, and motor vehicle accidents. Yet, many people mistakenly believe, “It could never happen to me.” I don’t know why so many people have that attitude, because life is unexpected, and injuries can happen almost everywhere, every day, and especially when you least […]

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Sorry I haven’t posted here for a while. I’ve been taking some much-deserved time off at the Cape. So, back to work … Today’s post is all about car-truck crashes, and the tangled web they leave in their aftermath. It’s safe to say that no one ever wants to be involved in any kind of […]

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It’s a sign of the times. Too many people text on their phones while driving, and that includes Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority drivers, who man the trolleys in Boston. Trolley operator Aiden Quinn admitted to authorities that he was texting his girlfriend, when the MBTA trolley he was driving in 2009 slammed into the back […]

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Most people that I know, if they were asked about how you could get injured by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA,) would not mention the word “bicycle.” But they’d be wrong. Last week. there was just such an accident – an MBTA-bicycle accident – in downtown Salem, Massachusetts. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) […]

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Texting while driving automobiles has been the focus of a lot of conversation in the recent past, in several states. In Massachusetts alone, a new law against texting while driving became effective in 2010. Most people, though, wouldn’t expect that the problem of texting while driving would be witnessed on a subway car. Yet in […]

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You don’t have to look far to see the terrible tragedies that occur every day as a result of motor vehicle accidents in Massachusetts. This past Saturday (June 20 2009,) both a 3-year-old child and a man were killed when they were thrown from their sport utility vehicle in an accident on Interstate 95 in […]