Within two days recently in Indiana, a woman died in a collision with a flatbed tow truck on the east side of Indianapolis and one person died and two were hospitalized after a two-car crash on I-65 in Bartholomew County. The number of car accident fatalities in Indiana has been…
Indiana school bus drivers are required to pick up or drop off elementary school students on the right-hand side of the roadway unless there are no other safe alternatives. This school bus safety law is meant to prevent children from having to cross highways while boarding or leaving school buses….
As a third company prepares to operate dockless electric scooters in Indianapolis, local emergency room doctors say up to two people a day are injured in Bird scooter accidents because of the thousands of scooters already operating here. Bird and Lime scooters have had about 3,000 scooters on Indianapolis streets since…
Drivers in Utah now face potential drunk driving charges if they are stopped and their blood-alcohol concentration is 0.05 percent or higher—the lowest threshold for drunk driving in the nation. When the new law went into effect December 30, 2018, Utah became the first state to lower its DUI limit below .08…
After being involved in a motor vehicle accident in Indiana that causes an injury or traps someone in a vehicle, state law requires you to ensure the accident is reported to law enforcement authorities. A car accident report will be necessary to obtain an insurance payment for your losses. Car…
Car accidents at intersections make up about four out of every 10 car crashes in the United States, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study. Nearly all intersection accidents are caused by driver error. As numerous drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians and/or bicyclists attempt to pass through an intersection,…
Any car accident causes stress. Being in an accident involving a rental car adds extra complications and stress to settling the accident. After all, you signed a lease agreement when you picked up the vehicle taking responsibility for it. After an accident while driving a rental car, you may question…
Rear-end collisions occur every day in Indianapolis, on busy city streets, in stop-and-go interstate traffic, in work zones or even on rural roads. While some rear-end accidents are simply fender benders resulting in minor damage and no reported injuries. Serious injuries and fatalities also may occur in these crashes if…
As personal injury lawyers at Craig, Kelley, and Faultless LLC, we prepare legal demands to submit to insurance companies for compensation after an Indiana car accident, the costs of an accident victim’s medical care are a primary driver of the amount sought. In some severe injury cases, the long-term effects…
National and state government reports tell us that there were 205,532 motor vehicle accidents in Indiana in 2014 that caused injury or property damage, and 821 fatal traffic accidents in Indiana in 2015, of which 178 involved drunk driving. At Craig, Kelley & Faultless LLC, our car accident and truck…
