Automobile Accidents

• GPS - A marketing plan that destroys good driving habits.

  Steve Lombardi | April 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Another potential source is driver distraction is the global positioning system or GPS that several manufacturers place in cars as standard equipment. As a person with a brain trained in the law...

• Are there too many lawyers; or just too many injuries and deaths?

  Steve Lombardi | October 14, 2009 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On October 4th 2009 James Godwin of Jefferson, Iowa failed to stop, running the stop sign and straight into the car driven by Bart Baugh of Churdan. Mr. Godwin was pronounced dead at the scene and...

• More Motorists Die on Rural Roads than Highways

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | October 09, 2009 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  More Motorists Die on Rural Roads than Highways South Carolina is leading the nation with 95% of their traffic deaths last year (2008) occurring on rural roads. Montana is close behind with...

• Dangers of bicycle riding to work

  Steve Lombardi | October 08, 2009 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In an article in Here New Brunswick Urban Voice, called “Overcoming the fear of cycling”, Andrea Laltoo discusses being a bicycling commuter and the dangers often linked to habitual...

• Newton, Iowa Crash Leaves Woman Dead as Other Driver Flees from Scene

  Steve Lombardi | September 01, 2009 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The report isn’t pleasant to read. The police pieced together the collision sequence but without the at-fault driver who they say fled the scene. One car crossed the center line and sideswiped...

• Part 4 of 20 - Wrong-way Interstate Collisions, “Is the driver too old to be driving?”

  Steve Lombardi | August 04, 2009 3:10 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Syracuse, NY – July 2009 – Three people died, wrong-way driver on Route 481, 60-year-old male. The at-fault driver had an 82-year-old passenger who also didn’t realize they were...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Estimating speed of oncoming traffic

  Steve Lombardi | July 14, 2009 9:29 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Once again today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. As I previously stated, there are so many of them just since the first of the year. Today we’ll look...

• Sergio Kindle-Texas Longhorn Linebacker; Texting While Driving?

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 30, 2009 1:02 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Sergio Kindle-Texas Longhorn Linebacker Texting while driving? On June 24, 2009, Sergio Kindle, a Texas Longhorn Linebacker, drove into an Austin, Texas apartment building at 2:50 a.m. His...

• Driving While Intexticated

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 24, 2009 3:54 PM | 5 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Des Moines/West Des Moines Parents…..Teenagers Driving while Intexticated Where are they learning this? Example maybe? Are you thinking, “Not my...

• Auto Safety: Why do car and motorcycle accident cases take so long to conclude?

  Steve Lombardi | February 18, 2009 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Monona motorcyclist dies in crash The Gazette MONONA — Michael Johnson, Sr., 46, of Monona was killed this afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a truck that was turning into a...