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As a society, we can all now agree that drinking and driving is dangerous. But, texting and driving is equally as dangerous. To drive this point home, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that just five seconds of texting and driving is the same as driving a football field in Livonia, Michigan, blindfolded. More…

Injuries to the spinal cord are extremely serious. They are also among the costliest types of injuries. There is no such thing as a minor spinal cord injury; even those that do not lead to paralysis cost more than $1 million to treat. These numbers do not include either lost income or non-economic damages like…

People in the Detroit area are continuing to use e-scooters, e-bikes and similar devices to get around urban areas. While their availability may convenience the public for years to come, these modes of transportation come with risks as well. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, through 2020, the number of people…

Recent studies – one by a government/auto industry alliance and one by the insurance industry – revealed that automatic braking could reduce rear-end automobile crashes by 50 percent. Pickup collisions went down more than 40 percent. Both relied on crash data for the calculations and focused on imminent impacts or slow ones to minimize the…

When you are on someone else’s property, you generally expect that they have kept the property safe for guests and visitors. But what happens if you are injured while on the property? Injuries in public places can come in many forms. You could slip on a puddle in a grocery store, trip over something left…

The past few years have been challenging with people needing to adapt to dramatic changes in how they live their lives personally and professionally. With a radically different landscape in Michigan and throughout the nation, it is to be expected that people will behave differently. A negative that has developed is drivers apparently showing greater…

Surgery is unlike everyday situations and requires clear and precise language. But unclear language is also a part of surgery. Researchers recently reviewed six recording teaching surgeries and found that imprecise language among surgeons caused 131 instances that almost led to medical error. Past Research Miscommunication is the leading cause of error in surgery. Other…

Truck drivers traveling through Michigan get into accidents for the same reasons that many other drivers do. Sometimes, they did everything they could to prevent the accident but another motorist made a mistake. In other cases, the accident truly was unavoidable or just happened because of a freak set of circumstances. Too often, though, truckers…

When you search for your parent’s nursing home, it is a trying time. There are feelings of guilt, but also feelings of doing the right thing. After all, we generally, do not put our parents into a nursing home until they need that kind of care, especially as the costs can be exorbitant. This is…

Children love moving fast on the water. Unhappily, this love can often lead to tragic circumstances, including death. A recent example of this unhappy result was recently provided by the death of an eleven-year old girl in a boating accident at a camp in Hillsdale County. The Incident Twelve children were riding on an inflatable…