Whether you prefer champagne toasts, eggnog with brandy, Tennessee whiskey or apple cider with scotch, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to indulge with friends and family this holiday season. Unfortunately, even if you make it a point to enjoy a few cocktails responsibly, you cannot rely on others to do the same.
Whom Can You Sue Following a Devastating Big Truck Wreck?
Trucking may be a dangerous profession, but when it comes to collisions involving tractor-trailers, it is often the passenger vehicle occupants involved who fare the worst. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, trucks typically weigh 20 to 30 times more than cars, and as a result, most fatalities that occur in large truck crashes are car occupants.
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How Can You Prevent Friends from Driving While Impaired?
People often use the holiday season to spend time with family and catch up with old friends. Sadly, some also use it as an excuse to binge drink.
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Who Is Most at Risk of Causing a Drowsy Driving Collision?
Although your sleep requirements might differ from those of your spouse or coworkers, the fact remains that everyone needs at least some sleep in order to function at optimum cognitive capacity. Sleep deprivation has both short- and long-term effects on the body, and the quality of sleep that you get matters just as much as the quantity.
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How to Avoid a Car Wreck over the Thanksgiving Weekend
Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday for visiting family, but it’s important to remember that you are not the only one who wants to spend the long weekend catching up with loved ones. In fact, so many people visit relatives on and around Thanksgiving that it has become the deadliest holiday for road travel. According to Forbes, an average of 567 people have died in motor vehicle collisions on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1982
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4 Laws You Should Know Regarding Pedestrian Right of Way in Tennessee
Pedestrian accidents are often devastating because the human body did not evolve to withstand the impact of a motor vehicle. Sadly, even if you remain on the sidewalk and always use crosswalks, it only takes one drunk, distracted, or reckless driver to cause a tragic collision.
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