Electronic Evidence in Drowsy Truck Driver Cases
Recently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) watered down some key hours of service (HOS) safety rules. For example, if truckers are caught in traffic or bad weather, they may now stay behind the wheel longer in order to make up time. Fatigue is a serious problem among truckers. Driving after 18 consecutive awake...
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A Closer Look at Traumatic Brain Injuries
Extreme, excessive motion causes most TBIs, an injury that kills over 64,000 Americans every year. Many personal injuries heal, for the most part, if the victims receive prompt and proper treatment. Head injuries, however, are permanent. That is because dead brain cells do not regenerate. These injuries usually cause lifelong cognitive and social interaction effects....
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Sharing the Road: Motorcycle Safety Tips
Now that it’s fall the leaves are changing, the air is turning crisp, and you may be starting to long for that open road. We get it, we’ve got a lot of avid motorcycle riders in our office, we’re right there with you – which is one of the many reasons why we are also...
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Traumatic Brain Injuries- The Silent Killer After a Crash
Accidents happen – but did you know that some accidents have life-changing injuries that may not show their symptoms until after the flashing lights and sirens have faded away? Traumatic brain injuries (or TBIs) are injuries that affect the brain and how it functions. TBIs can occur with any trauma to the head. The most...
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Jury Awards Baltimore City Resident $1.5 Million
One of The Yost Legal Group’s own, Attorney Bruce Powell, received a 1.5-million-dollar verdict for a Baltimore local who suffered from a traumatic brain injury at his job in September of 2018. The man was, at the time, an employee at the Thames Street Oyster House in Fells Point. He had been on break, sitting...
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Risky Business: Tractor-Trailer Accidents on the Rise
Tractor-trailers are responsible for transporting 70% of all products and goods across the United States. Unfortunately, these tractor-trailers can pose a serious threat to those they share a road with. There has been a significant increase in trucking accidents over the last decade despite new regulations intended to promote safer transport. According to the National...
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Unskilled Truckers Creating Deadly Roadways for Passenger Vehicles
In April of 2019, a 23-year-old lost control of the truck he was driving and plowed into stopped traffic in Colorado. This tragic accident cost four people their lives, and catastrophically injured six others. While the driver was later found guilty of vehicular manslaughter, a bigger problem still remains. Trucking companies across the U.S. are...
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What You Need to Know About Back-to-School Bus Safety
Schools are back—and in person. Across the nation, tens of millions of students are leaving their houses every morning and venturing out to school. Some are walking. Some parents are taking their children. And some students catch busses. On their ways to school, students are out early in the morning when drivers might not be...
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All Concussions Are Traumatic Brain Injuries—What You Need to Know
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) cause disturbances in brain activity and function and can have long-lasting negative effects on a person’s quality of life. In severe instances, traumatic brain injuries can even lead to death. In fact, in 2019, there were 61,000 TBI-related deaths just in the United States. Even mild concussions qualify as traumatic brain...
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Tractor Trailers Leave a Trail of Death Across U.S. Highways
In the United States, a person is killed or seriously injured in an accident caused by a tractor trailer every 15 minutes. In fact, around 500,000 trucking accidents occur every year in the U.S. and approximately 5,000 of those involve fatalities. In 2019, in Maryland alone, statistics showed that there were 60 tractor trailer accidents...
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