Louisiana Car Accident Risks a Matter of Perception

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Drivers need to make safe choices behind the wheel to prevent auto accidents. This means they need to recognize the types of behaviors that put them and other motorists at risk, and they need to do everything possible to avoid actions that have a strong chance of leading to a collision. 

Unfortunately, a recent study shows that the public as a whole is becoming less worried about certain dangerous driving actions. This is bad news for motorists because if drivers don’t see a behavior as very dangerous, they may be more inclined to engage in unsafe action behind the wheel. A lawyer is in the best position to help you determine how to proceed after an injury accident.

AAA Study Shows Drivers Aren’t as Worried About Dangerous Driving

According to the Telegram, a recent AAA study involved conducting interviews with 11,000 people of driving age between 2009 and 2012.  The study was completed by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and respondents lived throughout the United States.  Some of the drivers responding to the survey may have been interviewed more than one time over the course of the four year period that AAA was doing its research.

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Just before 8:00 am this morning, September 30, 2013, a CTA Blue Line train rear-ended a stopped CTA Blue Line train at the Harlem stop in Forest Park, Illinois. Dozens of CTA passengers are reporting injuries, and local authorities are shutting down surrounding roads to allow ambulances immediate access to the scene. The two trains were on the same track, which is not supposed to happen at the station.

(photo by Chuck Berman, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune)

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This crash is eerily similar to two stopped/rear-end train crashes involving a CTA trains in June (Blue Line) and August (Brown Line) of 2001, which prompted the National Transportation Safety Board [“NTSB”] to issue a Railroad Special Investigation Report.  The NTSB found that the CTA train operators failed to follow the CTA’s operating rules.  Because of the investigation, the NTSB recommended the CTA develop and implement systematic safety procedures for performing and documenting frequent management checks to ensure all operating personnel are complying with Chicago Transit Authority operating rules, including speed restrictions and signal rules.  The NTSB’s full report can be found at http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/safetystudies/SIR0201.pdf. Since the CTA has been down this track before, it prompts the question: What happened this time?

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