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Ohio motorists: You're about to see some real traffic enforcement

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Car Accidents

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  • May
    2013

If you're the type of Ohio motorist who always buckles up and never needs reminding to do so, good for you. If you're not, you might soon get reminded.

And ticketed. And acquainted once again with that catch phrase that issues annually at just about this time nationally each year: Click it or ticket.

Safety regulators estimate that more than 60 percent of all people who die in car accidents in Ohio each year were not wearing seat belts at the time their fatal crash occurred. That sad fact is all that traffic enforcement officials in the state say they need to motivate them to aggressively enforce seat belt laws during the annual Click it campaign.

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Tags: Car accident, car crash

Many Ohio vehicle accidents include ATV mishaps

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Car Accidents

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  • May
    2013

"Remember, trees don't move."

That is less advice than it is something to simply keep firmly in mind for the driver of any motorized vehicle. In car accidents, drivers almost always lose when an immobile object is involved.

And if that is true for vehicles offering enclosure protection, it is even more the case for motorcyclists, bicycle riders and, as Ohio safety regulators point out, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) operators.

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Tags: Car accident

"Sorrow to Strength" conference urges enhanced big-truck safety

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Truck Accidents

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  • May
    2013

Every time a dire outcome ensues on an Ohio or other state roadway from a commercial truck accident resulting in the injury or death of a driver or passengers of a smaller vehicle, a number of national safety advocacy groups are noting the fact and keeping a close tally.

Such groups, which include the Truck Safety Coalition (TSC), Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH) and Parents Against Tired Truckers, want change, and they want it now.

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Tags: truck accident

U.S. road planning needs to better integrate pedestrians' needs

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Car Accidents

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  • May
    2013

Many health and safety advocates will willingly subscribe to the notion that more Americans walking and riding bikes equates to a cumulatively healthier populace.

The only problem with that idea in much of Ohio and elsewhere across the United States is that, compared to a number of other nations, venturing outside the house in other than a motor vehicle can be a rather iffy proposition.

In other words, and as supported by statistics: In a given year, well more than 4,000 pedestrians die in car accidents when they are struck in crosswalks, walking along the sides of roads or otherwise trying to maneuver through dangerous traffic conditions.

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Tags: Car accident

How bad a problem is teens' texting, driving? Very bad, indeed

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Car Accidents

  • 07
  • May
    2013

The above headline is, unfortunately, far from hyperbole. The sad and simple fact is that, notwithstanding the strong and persistent efforts of safety regulators, law enforcement departments, school officials and a host of other groups, teen motorists continue to text while driving.

And the number of those doing so just keeps going up and up. The attendant risks of that behavior for car accidents, pedestrian fatalities and other mishaps are both glaring and immediate in Ohio and nationally. Indeed, tragic stories emerge daily regarding dire outcomes related directly to inattentive teen drivers behind the wheel.

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Tags: Car accident, texting and driving

Motorcycle Awareness Month: Organization issues annual reminder

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Motorcycle Accidents

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  • May
    2013

The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) was founded in 1924 and is the now the world's largest motorcycling advocacy group in the world. The association has more than 300,000 members and a motorcycle Hall of Fame in Pickering, near Columbus.

The AMA is especially busy every year around this time, when it preaches the virtues of responsible driving and behaviors that help reduce motorcycle accidents in Ohio and nationally during May's Motorcycle Awareness Month.

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Tags: Motorcycle accident, motorcyclist

OSHA issues numerous safety violations for Ohio plant death

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Construction Accidents

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  • April
    2013

A Canadian company with a manufacturing plant in North Jackson, west of Youngstown, has been cited for several safety violations following a fatal equipment accident that occurred last October.

A 21-year-old employee of Extrudex Aluminum was killed when a large metal stack filled with hot and heavy aluminum fell on top of him. A second worker suffered serious burn injuries in the accident.

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Tags: injuries

DOT's LaHood announces new safety guidelines for averting crashes

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Car Accidents

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  • April
    2013

New safety guidelines proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation for Ohio drivers and their peers across the country will serve "to balance the innovation consumers want with the safety we all need," says DOT Secretary Ray LaHood.

LaHood has long been a strong regulatory pitchman for promoting on-board technologies and gadgetries that enhance motorists' safety, while at the same time soundly criticizing those that preoccupy motorists to the point where car accident risks are flatly increased.

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Tags: car accident, car crash, texting while driving

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NHTSA spotlights rollover crash concerns with large passenger vans

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Truck Accidents

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  • April
    2013

As summer nears, traffic safety experts in Ohio and across the country know that rollover truck accidents become an increased risk on roads and highways.

Commonly, rollover crashes involving big rigs -- such as 18-wheler jackknife accidents -- owe to a number of factors, most centrally inexperienced drivers, vehicle safety and maintenance issues, and improper cargo loading (most often overloading).

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Tags: 18-wheeler jackknife accidents, rollover crashes, truck accidents

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ODOT introduces new tool to combat construction zone accidents

On behalf of Bashein & Bashein Company, L.P.A. posted in Construction Accidents

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  • April
    2013

When people think of workplace injuries, their minds are often understandably drawn to on-the-job accidents that occur in stationary work places, such as offices, factories, retail establishments and similar sites.

A great number of work-related injuries, though, including construction accidents, also occur in Ohio in areas where workers present more of a moving target. Nowhere is this truer than in the highway construction work zones that dot the state's landscape in both urban and rural areas during all but the winter months each year.

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Tags: construction accidents, on-the-job accidents, truck accidents, work-related injuries, workplace injuries

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