What’s the Top Cause of Accidental Death for Children? CARS!
Here’s a guest post from Steve Gursten, a great child injury lawyer in Michigan. He writes about Michigan, but everything he says is true in Virginia. From infants to teenagers, motor vehicle accidents are the most frequent cause of injuries and accidental death.
Injury lawyer gives 14 tips for protecting your kids in the car – [...]
Easy Way for Your Teen to Mess Up Her Job Prospects
Social media. Want to know what that means? Ask your teen. If she’s not on it, all her friends are, and they spend lots of time posting pictures and stories and sharing them with their friends — and with people they don’t even know. Including prospective employers.
And, being teenagers, sometimes they or their friends use [...]
Fewer Drunk Drivers?
I read a headline this morning that drunken driving was down in Maryland. It turns out that the headline was citing a study that surveyed people and asked whether they had gotten on the road after having had a few drinks in the last 30 days. The more accurate headline would have been that fewer people admitted to driving while drunk, [...]
Drunk Driver Kills Two Year Old and Grandmother
On Friday, a two-year-old boy was killed, along with his grandmother, when a man who had decided to get drunk and then drive slammed into the back of their car in Prince William County. How does anyone make any sense of that.
Gloria Delgado had done everything right to protect her family. Her little boy, Jonathan Wade-Ortiz, was [...]