Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

Head and Brain Injury Causes

June 27, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

As a Personal Injury Law Firm in the Sacramento area, we know that many people suffer from brain or head injuries as a result of their accident. We also know how exhausting and overwhelming it can be trying to understand all the new terms and implications that come with a diagnosis. We think it’s important to share some information in order to raise awareness.

This being so, I decided to give you a brief overview of brain/head injuries in my next couple of blogs. I hope that some of this information comes in handy and can help you see a clearer picture of what may have occurred during and as a result of your injury.

How it occurs…

Teenage Automobile Accident Information

June 22, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

As my son just turned 15, I realize that he is approaching the age of driving. I find myself being more aware of articles and news relating to young people involved in automobile accidents in the Sacramento area. And it scares me to death to think how helpless I can feel in the face of accidents. Especially since I am on staff for a Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer. We see many people and many teenagers who have been injured in an auto accident, car crash, or a motorcycle accident. And the despair their parents face.

Consider this information from the California Department of Motor Vehicles:

Teenage Driver Vehicle Crash Risk Factors

Increase In California Deaths From Alcohol-Related Car Accidents

June 20, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

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Dog Bites on the Rise in Sacramento, California

June 20, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

It is amazing to see how many people are victims of dog bites nowadays. This threat is especially high throughout California and even more specifically, in the Sacramento area.

Reading through the internet, I was shocked to see how many people have suffered from dog bites and dog attacks in just the past week. Even more interesting was the statistic I found on the California State Assembly Democratic Caucus website. Research now shows that “California suffers the nation’s highest occurrences of dog bites, animal attacks and attack-related fatalities in the nation and children are the most common victims”.

Not only that, but Sacramento is one of the highest ranking cities for dog bites. A study done by the United States Postal Service shows Sacramento as coming in third place for the largest amount of postal workers bitten or attacked by dogs (I always knew that had to happen a lot…). Only Long Beach and Houston rank higher than Sacramento.

Vertigo: Common In Car Accident & Brain Injury

June 19, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

At the Law Offices of Moseley Collins, we know auto accidents, motorcycle and truck accidents occur every day in Sacramento and throughout California.

Severe car, motorcycle and truck accidents can leave a crash victim with a traumatic brain injury. As a Sacramento car accident law firm we regularly assist victims who are suffering from a catastrophic brain injury. If you ever find yourself in this position, as an auto accident victim with trauma to the brain, one key aliment to watch out for is vertigo. This will assist your lawyer or attorney in representing you.

According to Dr. Kuljit Singh, “Head injuries from motor vehicle accidents or any other kind of trauma would result in traumatic vertigo. Vertigo occurs when sensation from the inner ear, eyes and sensation throughout the body are mismatched.”

Talking on Cell Phones While Driving Can Be Dangerous

June 16, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

In Sacramento and California today, our desire to maximize our time is more prevalent than ever. One of the most common ways we have found to achieve this goal is through the ever-growing popularity of cell phone use and driving. It allows us to be at two places at one time, creating a type of mobile office, and so much more. This “ideal”, however, has not come without its own problems. Sometimes, very serious problems.

Over the past several years, we have seen more and more links to cell phone use while driving and car crashes. Studies show that almost 80% of crashes and 64% of near-crashes involve some sort of driver distraction within the 3 seconds prior. Out of all the causes, cell phone use is the most common distraction. Many of these incidents could have been easily avoided if the use of cell phones was done more responsibly.

Another study, conducted by the University of Utah in the summer of 2006, concludes that talking on a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk. I know this may seem shocking at first, but if you think about the state of mind many people get into while talking on the phone, it makes more and more sense as they are more likely to lose focus on the road and be distracted by who is speaking on the other side of the cell phone.

Car Crashes into Patrol Car West of Sacramento

June 13, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

No one ever wants to be in an auto accident, much less the cause of the crash, and even more less to have the owner of the wrecked car owned by the highway patrol. Let’s say something like this would be unfortunate, but it’s exactly what happened just west of our Sacramento home off of I-80 in Berkley, CA two nights ago. More often than not these accidents should offer a cause for a moment of reflection.

Much known to us Sacramento locals, the I-80 can be quite hectic at times. But at 2:15 in the morning, this accident wasn’t anything less than a negligent driver, as the facts clearly state. They are indisputable. And alcohol seems to have played a part in this event, although maybe not as we would have expected it.

While evaluating a man suspected of drunk driving, two officers barely missed being hit by a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado that was driving partially on the shoulder of the interstate. Going 65 mph, the truck violently hit the highway patrol car, sending the officer’s car propelling 35 feet. The Silverado then proceeded to hit the suspected drunk man’s Toyota Tacoma, coming to a stop thereafter. Two people were injured in the accident, including the man the officers were evaluating who suffered a broken femur. The officers escaped unharmed and were able to handle the situation in terms of appropriate safety measures.

Hospital Mistakes Causing Serious Injuries Near Sacramento, CA

June 13, 2007 | by Moseley Collins

I read an article today about a woman not far from our Sacramento home in Modesto, CA who underwent a triple bypass surgery. Not to make the paining surgery any easier, upon waking, the woman discovered a serious accident; the surgeon had conducted the operation using a different patient’s angiogram films!

Startling, shocking and unusual? Startling and shocking, yes, especially to the nature of the surgery. But unusual may not be the appropriate word to use. Hospital mistakes in Sacramento and California are actually more common than you think. As the article states:

“The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which has done leading research on medical mistakes, estimates up to 98,000 people a year die from medical errors that occur in hospitals, more than the annual deaths from auto accidents, breast cancer or AIDS. Many more patients are harmed.”