Category: After the Crash

April 15-19, 2024 is National Work Zone Awareness Week which aims to encourage safe driving through highway work zones. This year’s theme is “Work Zones are temporary. Actions behind the wheel can last forever.”  In 2021, there were 874 fatal crashes in work zones and 956 fatalities. While 4 in…

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month In 2022, distracted driving killed 3,308 people. April is Distracted Driving Awareness month. Here, at Craig, Kelley & Faultless, we encourage drivers to stop trying to multitask with cell phones while driving, and to instead focus on the road ahead. Distracted driving is unbelievably…

What is Cell Phone Forensic Analysis? Cell phone forensic analysis is a specialized field within digital forensics that focuses on extracting and examining data from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. It plays a critical role in various legal contexts, including car accident and truck wreck cases, by providing…

7 Lessons Parents Must Teach Their Teen Drivers As a personal injury attorney, I’ve witnessed firsthand the devastating consequences of crashes involving inexperienced teen drivers. With their lack of experience and tendency toward risky behaviors, teens have an almost four times greater risk of being involved in accidents on the…

Despite widespread campaigns of its risks, cell phone use behind the wheel continues to occur, posing a grave threat to drivers and pedestrians alike. Understanding why this behavior persists, particularly among young drivers, is important. As a personal injury attorney with firsthand experience witnessing the devastating consequences of distracted driving,…

Two carpet installers were travelling on State Road 46 in Southeastern Indiana in their work van. They had put a full day in at work and they were on their way home. They were going east. The area where they were travelling was two lanes, one going east, and one…

Operating a commercial truck demands the utmost attention and focus. Any distraction, no matter how minor, can spell disaster. When truck drivers divert their attention to cell phones, whether to make calls, send texts, or check emails, their focus shifts away from the road ahead. As an experienced truck wreck…

What is an Accident Reconstructionist? Accident reconstruction is the science of figuring out how a wreck happened and why. An accident reconstructionist’s job is to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to an accident. It is important that their conclusions must be accurate. Accident reconstructionists must be skilled in…

Craig, Kelley, & Faultless represented a married couple who were driving their car on US 36 in Hendricks County when they were involved in an eleven-vehicle accident near the intersection of US 36 and South County Rd. 625 East. The wreck seriously injured our clients, killed two others, paralyzed one…

Traffic deaths are increasing at a scary rate, reaching more than 46,000 in 2021, according to a report from the National Safety Council. Speed related deaths made up approximately 1/3 of all the fatalities. Now is not the time to encourage people to drive even faster. And yet, some in…