With Christmas this week and New Years next Friday, a significant increase of vehicles traveling Tennessee roadways in holiday anticipation will occur with people paying visits to friends and relatives to celebrate the season. According to AAA, the number of holiday travelers around the country will top 100 million for the first time on record. [...]
With a month yet to go before the One Hundred Ninth General Assembly of the Tennessee State Legislature convenes, according to WSMV one state lawmaker is already working on legislation he is planning on addressing during the 2016 session which he says will make Tennessee roads safer. State Rep. John Holsclaw has drafted legislation to help eliminate [...]
A recent article at TruckingInfo.com reports that four highway safety lobbies petitioned the NTSB to initiate a rule that would require forward collision avoidance and mitigation braking (F-CAM) systems on all new tractor trailers rated at 10,000 pounds or more. The lobbies argue that specific technology exists that would significantly reduce eighteen wheeler crashes if it were [...]
One of the most common reasons for an automobile and eighteen wheeler crash to occur is because the driver was operating his or her vehicle while distracted. There are a myriad of actions a driver can do that would constitute being distracted. For example, texting or talking on the phone while operating a motor vehicle is [...]