On behalf of Smith & Griffith, LLP | Jan 13, 2020 | Car Accidents
This year your child turns 15. Your nerves begin to pound as you realize the child you still consider your baby is about to get behind the wheel of a car for the first time. How are you going to live through this? Your novice driver will take to the road with other...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Apr 29, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
Drivers in South Carolina, as anywhere else in the U.S., can be distracted by a number of things, and phones are at the top of the list. Wakefield Research conducted an online study to which nearly 2,000 U.S. drivers responded, and what it reveals about distracted...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Apr 16, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
According to a recent Rand report, self-driving cars in South Carolina and throughout the country would need to drive millions, or perhaps billions, of miles before they are truly considered safe vehicles. News reports issued during the past several years have...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Apr 9, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
South Carolina residents with 2017 or 2018 model Nissan Rogues should be aware that many of these vehicles have been found with defective automatic emergency braking systems. In March 2019, the Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization,...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Apr 1, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
South Carolina residents with modern pickup trucks should know that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been conducting crash tests on these vehicles. Since 2012, it has been conducting small overlap front collision tests for the driver’s side, and it...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Apr 1, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
Many vehicle buyers in South Carolina choose pickup trucks with two rows of seats because they offer an attractive combination of practicality, durability and value, but a recent series of crash simulations conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Mar 18, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that drivers who are distracted for any length of time are 29 times more likely to get in a crash or near-collision in a highway work zone. The distractions in question can be anything from calling or texting to...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Feb 21, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
Drunk driving is behind many crashes in South Carolina. Other motorists may, on occasion, even suspect that someone on the road is drunk or impaired in some other way. For example, the driver may weave in and out of lanes, make wide turns, make illegal turns, brake...
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Feb 13, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
The National Transportation Safety Board wants anyone in South Carolina or elsewhere in the United States sharing the road with drivers to be as safe as possible. This is why the agency has released its biannual Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements....
by Smith & Griffith, LLP | Jan 28, 2019 | Car Accidents, Firm News
A recent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study reveals that drivers distracted by cell phones are becoming an increasingly serious problem in South Carolina and around the country. After observing motorist behavior in four Virginia communities in 2014 and then...
