Archive for March, 2010
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
More and more people in California have doctors’ recommendations for medicinal marijuana use. While many states allow the prescription of marijuana for such uses and protect users from state criminal charges, they do not protect these people from the risk of being fired because of marijuana use.
CNN has a report ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Efforts at preventing accident risks from cell phone use and texting while driving have, thus far, focused on legislation. The Associated Press is reporting on how small companies are developing applications that can prevent motorists from sending or receiving text messages or using the cell phone while driving. These efforts ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
High decibel sex is apparently sufficient reason for police in New Jersey to conduct an investigation of your house and arrest you for drug crimes. An NJ resident is learning this the hard way.
Brian McGacken has just been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to operating ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Now this is really technology you can use. Doffing its hat to the growing numbers of bicyclists on America's roads, Google has added bike directions to its Google Maps.
The feature currently includes biking directions for bicyclists in more than 150 American cities. So now, bikers who want to get from ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
It was a tragic accident that killed his two boys that got NHRA racer Doug Herbert’s attention on the safety issues concerning teen motorists. In January 2008, Herbert's two sons, 12-year-old James and 17-year-old Jon were killed in an accident in North Carolina. The boys were trying to pass another ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
This is the actual audio of the kid in the control tower:
It would be very cute if not for the number of lives in the hands of ground controllers. Fortunately, there was no ground incident, no airplane crash, and no need for a California aviation attorney.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Those brightly illuminated flashing LED ads on billboards along highways and at intersections are much more of a distraction and accident risk than motorists may be aware of.
Federal agencies, safety groups and accident lawyers in Nevada and California are growing increasingly concerned about the kind of distractions that motorists may ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
A political impasse in the United States Senate threatens to starve state highway safety programs of essential funding for motorcycle safety, drunk driving accident prevention and truck accident prevention programs.
Last Friday, a bill proposing a short-term extension of funding for highway safety programs, and extension of unemployment benefits to Department ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
A slip and fall accident can leave a person seriously injured, and depending on the circumstances, eligible to file a premises liability claim against the owner of the property. Ask CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
The start of 360° has been named in a slip and fall accident claim filed by an ...
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