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Wichita car accident lawyers discuss this troubling trend Seat belts may have saved almost 15,000 lives last year, but for 1 out of 10 drivers in the U.S., that's not enough of a reason to buckle up. Seat belts don't just save lives, they also reduce the severity of car accident injuries. A new study...

Wichita car accident attorneys explain what this means for drivers Even before outside states legalized recreational marijuana, the drug has been contributing more and more to fatal car accidents, according to a new study. The percentage of roadway fatalities involving cannabis or a combination of cannabis and alcohol more than doubled over 19 years. However,...

Street safety typically focuses on stopping bad car accidents in big cities, but there needs to be room at the table for rural roads, too. Almost half of the roughly 36,000 roadway fatalities reported annually in the U.S. occur on rural roads. In 2019, the fatality crash rate on rural roads was almost twice as...

A Wichita Car Accident Lawyer Discusses the Problem Holiday celebrations in Kansas too often end in heartbreak because some people carelessly drive too fast. Innocent lives are lost at what is supposed to be one of the most joyful times of the year when too often the holiday rush ends in holiday tragedy. Car accidents...

A Wichita car accident lawyer discusses this troubling trend Every state has fatal car accidents, but who the victims are changes by region. In Kansas, we have the highest percentage of fatal crashes involving young drivers in the U.S. (though Utah ties the 10-year figure). From 2010-2019, 16% of all fatal car accident victims were...

A driver under the influence of alcohol who ran a red light and caused a fatal car accident in Wichita was recently found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, KWCH 12 News reported. A jury issued the guilty verdict in connection with the April 2020 death of Wichita radio personality Don Hall. The driver who caused the...

A motorcycle accident lawyer in Wichita explains A motorcycle accident in Wichita caused by a driver who fled the scene of the crash recently resulted in the death of a popular music promotor and the subsequent arrest of the hit-and-run driver, according to several news reports, including KAKE ABC News other local sources. The fatal...

American households are carrying nearly twice as much medical debt as anyone previously believed, according to new research. In 2016, the estimated medical debt was $81 billion. Now, the amount Americans owe to hospitals, doctors, specialists, labs, and pharmacies is about $140 billion. This is just the tip of the iceberg, analysts say. The $140...

A driver going the wrong way in El Dorado, Kansas recently caused a fatal car accident, as these types of crashes are becoming increasingly common nationwide. The fatal wrong-way accident happened on Kansas Highway 254 on Friday, June 11, 2021, just west of El Dorado, according to KSN News. A 45-year-old Eureka woman was traveling...

At age 17, Karah Bosmeijer recalls brushing off the serious car accident she had with a semi-truck as "no big deal." Then, as she washed blood off of herself, Bosmeijer saw a piece of her skull reflected back to her in a mirror. It was at this point Bosmeijer started to reconsider. Perhaps the accident...