Automobile Accidents

• Wisconsin considers texting while driving—Concerned about automobile accidents

  Claude Wyle | November 13, 2009 6:27 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Wisconsin State senators are set to begin debate Tuesday whether to ban texting while driving for people under age 18 because of the higher rate of automobile accidents in that group. Wisconsin...

• Stuck Floor Mat Survival Strategies – How to Avoid a Collision

  Claude Wyle | November 10, 2009 2:03 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Recent reports of stuck accelerator pedals causing crashes and Toyota’s auto recall has caused many to question whether or not a vehicle’s brakes are powerful enough to overpower the...

• Toyota Floor Mat And Gas Pedal Defects--Do They Cause Wrongful Deaths?

  Claude Wyle | October 28, 2009 10:11 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Federal highway safety inspectors have released new details of a fatal car crash that triggered Toyota Motor Corp.'s largest recall, including a finding that the Lexus ES 350 sedan involved had a...

• More Seat Belt Use Has Reduced Wrongful Deaths

  Claude Wyle | October 23, 2009 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  I am happy to report that more Americans are buckling up than ever before, with 83 percent of vehicle occupants using seatbelts during daylight hours, according to the U.S. Secretary of...

• Oakland Pair Killed in Monterey County "Truck versus Automobile" Crash

  Claude Wyle | October 14, 2009 1:04 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  The California Highway Patrol is still investigating a truck versus car head on collision on Highway 101 that killed two Oakland-area residents in Monterey County last Saturday, October 5,...

• I-80 Crash Brings Attention to Avoiding Rear-End Collisions

  Claude Wyle | May 26, 2009 10:58 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Despite the fact that rear-end collisions are the most common type of car accidents, injuries from such accidents are typically less severe than those in other types of wrecks, specifically head-on...

• Six Students Die in SoCal Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | February 20, 2009 4:34 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A fiery car crash claimed the lives of six people from San Francisco, including five foreign students, in Santa Barbara County on Thursday night. The driver of the Toyota Land Cruiser, Jeanne...

• San Francisco Summer's Epidemic of Muni Crashes Demonstrates Need for Greater Accountability

  Claude Wyle | September 04, 2008 5:29 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  When 14 people were recently injured in San Francisco as a result of a recent crash between two historic street cars in San Francisco, the survivors did not know that this Muni crash was the...

• Truck Driver Not At Fault In Fatal Gambling Bus Accident

  Claude Wyle | December 10, 2007 11:44 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  The CHP have determined that the pick up truck driver who was killed in last week's gambling bus accident was not the cause of the fatal collision. Although the truck driver had been driving aggressively before the bus crash, the deadly bus accident was caused by another driver who sideswiped the gambling bus, and then hit another car behind the bus. The tour bus, on its way back to San...

• Gambling Bus Accident Causes Wrongful Death

  Claude Wyle | December 04, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A gambling tour bus from U.S. Asia Tours, bound for San Francisco on Highway 88, crashed head-on into a pick up truck on Sunday night, killing the driver of the pick-up. At first the CHP believed that the pick up driver's conduct was the cause of the crash, however now they believe that a second car which was trying to pass the bus, might have hit the bus and caused this deadly five car pile up....