Children and adults on skateboards, scooters and rollerblades are at an increased risk for injury and death if they’re involved in collisions with motor vehicles. Even with helmets, injuries arising from car accidents can be incredibly severe or even fatal. Children and adults on skateboards, rollerblades and scooters are reminded that they have all of […]
Archives for August 2016
Restrict Teenage Driving at Night
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released the results of a study on night driving restrictions and drivers aged 16 or 17 years old involved in fatal nighttime crashes between 2009 and 2014. Overwhelmingly fatal crashes happen during the nighttime hours and the risk is especially high for injury causing and […]
DEFECTIVE GAS TANKS IN 1992-2001 CROWN VICTORIA, MERCURY AND LINCOLN TOWN CARS
Please share this important safety information. Don’t buy into the “Ford Built Tough” public relations whitewash. The only thing “tough” about Ford is its attitude about selling cars with known and curable defects. The Galaxy, Pinto, and Explorer debacles are well known, but there is a longstanding secret that Ford has concealed from the public. […]
PG&E Convicted of Breaking Safety Laws
Last Tuesday, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) was convicted of obstructing the federal probe and violating various safety laws associated with the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion of 2010. The San Francisco Gate reported that PG&E was found guilty of five different felony counts of knowingly failing to inspect and test its gas […]
Fatal Bus Crash in Merced County
On Tuesday morning, five people were killed and many other people were injured in a tour bus crash on Highway 99. KRON Channel Four News reported that the wreck happened between Atwater and Livingston at about 3:30 a.m. The bus reportedly struck a highway exit sign pole, which tore through the middle of the bus. […]