Gregory S. Baumgartner Personal Injury Law Blog

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an excellent
resource for information related to a variety of driving and product
information. They have been conducting research since 1969 and make their
findings available to the general public free of charge. Those studies whose
results have been published in scientific and other academic journals are
available as electronic reprints from the publishers. What follows are a... Read More

This is a question that involves many variables to answer
correctly, and most values a person will see online or even in a book will be
for optimal conditions. Everything plays a part in bringing a motor vehicle to
a complete stop, and that means weather conditions, are the brakes on the
vehicle in perfect condition, and do the... Read More

There are dozens of new motorcycles purchased in the Houston
Metro vicinity every month, as young and old alike want to venture out on the
open roads of East Texas to enjoy the many scenic routes available to them.
Unfortunately there are to many instances where the riders are so new, and
uneducated about safety issues, and proper driving procedures... Read More

A recent
study conducted for the AAA foundation for traffic safety shows that sleepy
drivers are factor in almost... Read More

 According to the National Highway and Safety
Administration's  2007 National Roadside
Survey, more than 16 percent of weekend, nighttime drivers tested positive... Read More

The importance of
the automobile battery to overall car safety can’t be overstated. Please take
notice that regular multi-point inspections of your automobile will serve to
trouble... Read More

Automobile accident statistics in this country are nothing
short of shocking. Consider the following information.

Recent data shows that there is an average of 6 million automobile accidents annually
– and injuries occur in fifty percent of these. Of these
approximately 3 million injuries,... Read More

Drunk
driving occurs when a person takes in more alcohol than their body can absorb
causing them to become intoxicated after which he or she chooses to operate a
motor vehicle in an impaired condition. The moniker varies from state to state.
It can be identified as DUI (driving under the... Read More

Recently, a major insurance company
issued a “traffic alert” indicating that as many as 10,000 of their customers
in Texas were involved in auto accidents this year with an insured motorists.
That... Read More