Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Construction Site Safety: At times the news media is clueless about how they report accidents.

  Steve Lombardi | March 16, 2009 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Can a construction wall suddenly just fall on construction workers? The news report is a wall of rebar at the Gateway construction site “just became loose and collapsed” on top of...

• Train crossing collision in St. Louis kills pregnant mother

  Steve Lombardi | March 14, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A pregnant mother, Heather Sheree Balven, from the St. Louis area (Hartford) was killed when a train struck the pickup truck she was driving. Well liked her fellow workers, she was a geotechnical...

• Driver Safety: Starts before you turn the ignition key

  Steve Lombardi | February 11, 2009 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The biggest road hazard you may face this and next year are uninsured motorists. If you didn’t have enough to worry about with double bottomed semi-truck trailers, pieces of retread tires and...

• Highway Safety - What States have the worst bridges?

  Steve Lombardi | January 21, 2009 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Today we will look at how your state ranks against other states for number of bridges needing replacement. See how your state stacks up against the rest. How does your state ranks against other...

• Highway Safety: Bridges – What is the condition of the bridges in your state, city or town?

  Steve Lombardi | January 20, 2009 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Bridge Safety - Iowa and U.S. Highways Our goal at the InjuryBoard is to prevent injury. To prevent injury let’s examine the available data and government policies that predispose this...

• Rear ended by distracted driver leads to $3.5 million settlement

  Steve Lombardi | December 24, 2008 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Driving on the highways of Illinois can be risky. In this case a student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale was on assignment for the student newspaper when he reportedly was rear-ended by a...

• Highway Safety - Finding information about bridge safety in your hometown.

  Steve Lombardi | November 14, 2008 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  “London Bridge Is Falling Down” The lyrics from the well-known Mother Goose nursery rhyme talking about bridges falling down, pins and needles bend and break, build it up with wood...

• Truck Accident Prevention: Truck backing over pedestrian woman is preventable.

  Steve Lombardi | November 11, 2008 9:56 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  I've written previously about rear runovers and the use of rear beeping or auditory warning devices. On November 7, 2008 it happened again when a woman in downtown Des Moines was backed over by a...

• Interstate Highway Safety - Ghost Drivers – Part II

  Steve Lombardi | November 09, 2008 9:16 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Today we further develop the issue of Ghost Drivers, English as an official language and what it may say about our culture. I ask the question: Is the answer about why some people turn the wrong way...

• Interstate Highway Safety: Part I - Ghost drivers continue to be a problem on U.S. Interstate Highways

  Steve Lombardi | November 08, 2008 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Whenever a potential client calls with a wrong-way turn collision I ask myself a question. Was it booze or drugs, old age, sign pollution, improper sign wording, a language issue, a lighting issue,...