Over the past several years, the topic of self-driving cars has been the focus of many an article. Typically, these articles discuss the software and hardware needed to make these cars go while other topics include how the testing is progressing and how the future looks for self-driving cars. As a personal injury lawyer, I […]
Why And What Are Cable Median Barriers? Head-on collisions often result in serious injury and, in some cases, death. The types of injuries and number of fatalities increases as the speed of the involved vehicles increases so, it follows, highway speed head-on collisions often result in catastrophic injury and death. In an effort to curb […]
Watch the above video to see but one of the places bed bugs hide. This video was taken by an actual client of Attorney Chris Johnston and has been posted here with permission. WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE! It seems that a few years ago you couldn’t read a newspaper or turn on the news without hearing that some top […]
Insurance giant State Farm recently released the results of a study in which it was found that the likelihood of striking a deer while driving in Iowa is higher than all but two other states in the nation. In other words, Iowa drivers have submitted the third highest number of car versus deer claims nationally. […]
Multiple sources are reporting that a 16 year old male was fatally injured in an ATV crash in Guttenberg, Iowa. Television station KCRG out of Cedar Rapids reported the accident happened at approximately 3 o’clock a.m. Sunday in Clayton County, approximately five miles north of Guttenberg. According to KCRG, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office says the boy was a […]
Four Iowans sustained injuries after the boat in which they were riding struck the shore at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that the incident, referred to as a “grounding”, happened on the Big Niangua area of the lake. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, none of the four […]
The Des Moines Register reports that a 27 year old man was tragically killed in grain bin accident at the co-op in Farnhamville, Iowa. It is being reported that the man was cleaning the grain bin when he was engulfed by soybeans. As noted elsewhere in this site, the agricultural industry is one of the […]
The Ames Tribune recently featured an article regarding driver safety during the months leading up to harvest. With corn in excess of 10 feet in some parts of Iowa, rural intersections can become precarious due to obstructed vision from the corn. With a driver’s ability to see other cars, some drivers adopt an “out of […]