Impaired driving can be deadly to the driver, as well as to innocent people who are around them. This is why Missouri has strict laws against driving while intoxicated (DWI) and driving under the influence (DUI). Everyone who is driving should make sure that they are...
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Car Accident
What to Do if You Have Broken Bones After a Car Accident
When you get into a major car accident, motorcycle accident or collision in a motor vehicle, whether it’s with another passenger vehicle or a commercial truck, you may feel lucky if your injuries only amount to broken bones. Common injuries from these sorts of...
Signs of Compartment Syndrome After a Car Accident
Many different injuries can result from car accidents. People tend to think about the common car accident injuries like broken bones or head injuries, but those aren’t the only injuries that a person might face if they are in a bad crash and have a medical...
Are You Suffering Blindness Caused By a Car Accident?
Nobody can plan how an accident is going to impact one’s life. One particularly traumatic injury that can be very difficult to deal with is sudden blindness. Loss of vision can come from many different car accidents, including one in which the eyes suffer a...
Seeking help in the wake of a motor vehicle accident
No one plans to be in a car accident, and no one wants to be involved in one. And yet, being ready for the aftermath of a car accident is a critical part of the process. In a way, it’s a skill that requires someone to be calm and composed even when everything...
Why car insurance is higher in Kansas City than other places
How your car insurance rate is calculated may not be at the front of your mind on any given day, or at all. But you may notice that your car insurance bill keeps rising and rising. This is actually true across the nation, as a 20 percent increase in car insurance...
Bus, car collide at intersection In Kansas City, 12 injured
A brutal accident at an intersection in Kansas City, Missouri left 12 people with injuries and the police investigating the incident. The crash involved a Ride KC bus and a smaller passenger vehicle. Details regarding the reason for the crash are unavailable, but what...
The many legal aspects to consider after a wreck
Victims of car accidents will have a lot on their mind in the weeks and months after their wreck. How are they supposed to cope with the physical pain, the emotional anguish, the mental strain, and the literal stress that comes with being in a car accident? In some...
What to know when a car accident lawsuit beckons
Imagine that you are driving down a street in your neighbourhood, as you have hundreds of times before. There’s nothing to suggest that this drive will be any different than in days, weeks, months, and years past. Everything is going well — until out of...
Why are motor vehicle accident deaths rising again?
In 1963, the number of people that died in the United States because of car accidents surpassed 40,000 for the first time ever. It stayed above 40,000 every year from then until 1992, when it barely dipped below 40,000 (to 39,250), before immediately going back above...
