Distracted Driving - Avoidable Crashes And Injuries
01/27/2012 09:14 AM
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 25% of police reported car crashes involve some form of driver inattention. A shocking statistic. Car accident personal injury lawsuits are common in this country. Many people believe this is driven by our society becoming over litigious, but the truth of the matter is looking more and more like it is based on the fact that people in this country do not understand what driving is about, and that it is not something you do in the background while doing other things. When you are behind the wheel that must be priority number one.
If tort reformers want less litigation from car accidents the answer lies more in reforming the way we drive in the U.S., not in reforming the legal system to afford breaks to people who injury innocent victims with their own inattention while driving. It makes no sense that a person injured should be denied full compensation because too many people in this country are bad drivers. Injured victims deserve full compensation from those who injured them; that is what personal injury lawyers try to achieve for their clients.
Changing laws are not the answer. Changing technology so that it cannot be used at certain times is not the answer either. The answer lies in the mindset of each and every person who gets behind the wheel: when you are driving, drive. That’s it. It is as simple (or complicated) as that. If we as a society can do this, the number of personal injury lawsuits for car accidents will surely fall, after all, if 25% of those accidents which are reported to police are avoidable, we are not dealing with an insignificant amount of preventable car crashes.
If tort reformers want less litigation from car accidents the answer lies more in reforming the way we drive in the U.S., not in reforming the legal system to afford breaks to people who injury innocent victims with their own inattention while driving. It makes no sense that a person injured should be denied full compensation because too many people in this country are bad drivers. Injured victims deserve full compensation from those who injured them; that is what personal injury lawyers try to achieve for their clients.
Changing laws are not the answer. Changing technology so that it cannot be used at certain times is not the answer either. The answer lies in the mindset of each and every person who gets behind the wheel: when you are driving, drive. That’s it. It is as simple (or complicated) as that. If we as a society can do this, the number of personal injury lawsuits for car accidents will surely fall, after all, if 25% of those accidents which are reported to police are avoidable, we are not dealing with an insignificant amount of preventable car crashes.