December 27, 2016
Many people trust public transportation to get them to their destinations inexpensively, efficiently and—most importantly—safely. Tragically, on the morning of September 29, 2016 that trust was broken when a New Jersey Transit (NJT) rush-hour commuter train barreled into Hoboken Station at more…
October 05, 2016
Henry Avenue carries 23,000 vehicles each day through East Falls. Several of its intersections are prone to auto accidents that result in serious injuries and fatalities. A review of accident statistics from the last five years show that the intersection of Schoolhouse Lane and Henry Avenue is one…
September 02, 2016
Self-driving cars seem to promise a safer future on our roadways by eliminating the risk of human error. However, the recent death of a driver in a Tesla car using the Autopilot feature calls the safety of self-driving cars into question. The car accident killed Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio…
August 26, 2016
The recall of Takata Airbags has been expanded to nearly 70 million U.S. vehicles and 100 million vehicles worldwide. In the United States only about eight million airbags have been replaced so far. Officials are prioritizing states with hot and humid climates that make the devices more prone to…
August 10, 2015
In light of a recent police investigation into a deadly school bus accident that revealed the driver had been texting at the time of the crash, the injury and accident lawyers at Kline & Specter, PC, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania want to remind drivers of the dangers of texting while driving.…
June 02, 2015
The vertebral arteries are blood vessels located on each side of your neck that supply blood and oxygen to your brain. A vertebral artery dissection occurs when there is a tear or slit in the artery and it allows blood to leak out of the vessel. After the blood oozes out it starts to form a blood…
April 15, 2015
Two separate hit-and-run accidents involving pedestrians have left a four-year-old boy dead and a mother and her young son critically hurt in Philadelphia. Both incidents happened last night, with the fatal accident occurring in Southwest Philadelphia and the second injuring a young mother and her…
January 16, 2015
A fatal auto accident last year in Missouri along with a massive federal jury verdict in Texas have heightened the national debate about the safety of the ET-Plus highway guardrail system. A recent study found that the ET-Plus design was nearly four times more likely to be involved in a fatal auto…
January 09, 2015
Trinity Industries, an industrial manufacturing company based in Dallas, has halted shipments of its ET-Plus highway guardrail system following reports of deaths and injuries over allegedly faulty design changes. A federal whistleblower recently charged Trinity with changing the design of its…
December 16, 2014
The Takata Corp., a Japanese auto safety manufacturer, is caught in an escalating recall crisis that involves millions of automobiles and at least 10 different automobile makers in the United States. Takata’s airbags have so far been linked to five deaths that occurred when the airbags exploded…