South Florida Car Accident Lawyer Blog

Citing the National Highway Association, azcentral.com states that in 2009,1,772 people in the United States, died in car accidents in which a driver entered a road against the flow of traffic or drove on the wrong side of the road. 2009 was the deadliest of five consecutive years studied by that federal agency. Thousands more people were injured across the United States.

To address this growing, deadly problem, the Arizona Department of Transportation, is testing new technologies and road markers.

Safety engineers are hopefuly the right combination of warnings will keep some drivers from entering highways the wrong way and notify others and Highway Police Officers in the event of a wrongway entrance.

Arizona hopes to come up with a solution by the end of this year.

In most wrong-way driving incidents, the operator realizes the mistake quickly and leaves before the police arrive.

When car accidents happen, they can be devastating. Pictures of the accidents taken pursuant to police investigations show smashed cars. These accidents are always severe. They more often than not involve several vehicles involving higher impact forces. Many wrong-way car accidents result in fatalities or catastrophic injuries, according to the Texas Transportation Institute, a research center based at Texas A&M University's College Station campus.

The NHTSA says that three-quarters of all wrong-way car accidents are caused by intoxicated or impaired drivers.

Azcentral.com further reports that wrong-way drivers tend to have more felony convictions and other accidents than other drivers and that two-thirds are males.

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When purchasing a new car, families should do due diligence on the safety and crash worthiness of a prospective vehicle. As our family is the most important and most valuable item in our lives, no expense should be spared, and investigation time should not be an issue when it comes to such an important transaction. Act in haste, repent in leisure is a saying no more appropriate when it comes to evaluating a potential new family car.

Families should review the safey scores of vehicles that have been prepared by both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

NHTSA's and IIHS's crash tests and other car safety information can give a family a better idea of to what extent a vehicle can protect them in a car accident. When researching child safety be advised, however, that neither agency utilizes kid-size dummies in car accident tests. That could make it more difficult for a family to make an informed decision, as it will be more difficult to determine if their children will be safe in the event of an accident.

NHTSA tests vehicles for compliance and car crashworthiness. Compliance tests ensure that each car follows United States regulations regarding safety and to make certain that each vehicle performs the way the car manufacturer promises that it will.

As part of it's safety regimen, NHTSA also performs frontal, side, rear and rollover crash tests. They also rates each vehicles's performance on a five-star scale, with five being the highest. The agency, in 2011, updated its safety tests. They added a side-pole impact test that mimicks a sideway crash into a tree. The overall car crash test score combines the four individual test scores and a small adult female crash dummy that records any potential head injury. A child safety expert with NHTSA expert stated that available head injury information should encourage car manufacturers to improve head protection in their cars.

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