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Lack Of Seat Belt Use Is Major Cause Of Crash-Related Injuries And Deaths To Drivers And Passengers

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among those aged 1-to-54 in the U.S. A recent study by the National Highway Safety Traffic Commission (NHTSC) confirms seat belt use is one of the most effective ways to save lives and reduce injuries in crashes. Yet according to the study, and despite billions of dollars spent on advertising by the Federal Government over many decades to influence motorists’ driving habits, millions of Americans still

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October 17, 2017

Lack Of Seat Belt Use Is Major Cause Of Crash-Related Injuries And Deaths To Drivers And Passengers

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among those aged 1-to-54 in the U.S. A recent study by the National Highway Safety Traffic Commission (NHTSC) confirms seat belt use is one of the most effective ways to save lives and reduce injuries in crashes. Yet according to the study, and despite billions of dollars spent on advertising by the Federal Government over many decades to influence motorists’ driving habits, millions of Americans still

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October 17, 2017

Teenaged Drivers Three Times As Likely To Be Involved In Deadly Car Crash

New teenaged drivers between the ages of 16-17 years old are three times as likely as adults to be involved in a deadly crash, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This alarming finding becomes particularly heightened during what the not-for-profit traffic safety organization has dubbed the “100 Deadliest Days,” which begins every Memorial Day and runs through Labor Day. Research conducted over many decades by the AAA Foundation — whose

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August 31, 2017

New Studies Show Driverless Technology Is Best Possible Cure For National Motor Vehicle Accident Injury And Death Epidemic

Driverless vehicles will hopefully become a reality sooner than later and when they do it won’t be a minute too soon. The National Safety Council (NSC) released its annual report for 2016 recently, and it wasn’t pretty. It turns out in 2016 there were more than 40,000 traffic fatalities in the United States, a 6% increase over 2015. Our law firm, Dankner Milstein, presents this blog as a safety reminder that injuries caused by reckless

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July 26, 2017

Cracking down on some of the city’s most vulnerable populations “is misguided and will have little to no impact on making our streets safer,” Jay W. Dankner

CRACKING DOWN ON SOME OF THE CITY’S MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IS MISGUIDED AND WILL HAVE LITTLE TO NO IMPACT ON MAKING STREETS SAFER, TOP NEW YORK CAR ACCIDENT LAWYER ADVISES The New York Daily News reported last week that in one 24-hour period in the last week in March 2017, the NYPD, in the borough of Manhattan alone, targeted mostly young men – many of whom are Latino and Chinese immigrants — on bicycles who deliver every

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May 15, 2017

Jay Dankner Provides Statistics Behind Motor Vehicle Related Injuries and Deaths In New York City

STATISTICS BELOW PROVIDED BY TOP NEW YORK CAR ACCIDENT LAW FIRM POINTS TO CAUSES OF MOTOR VEHICLE RELATED INJURIES AND DEATHS IN THE CITY. New York Police Department statistics show that although there was a slight decline in motor vehicle accidents in 2015 and 2016 in New York City, surprisingly, pedestrian injuries involving motor vehicles rose. Still, city officials note that traffic deaths were at their lowest level in a century — down from 234

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April 26, 2017

Jay Dankner Weighs In On New York City’s Auto Accident Open Data Portal

TOP NEW YORK AUTO ACCIDENT INJURY LAW FIRM PROVIDES MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP PREVENT INJURIES AND SAVE LIVES New York City’s two-year-old Open Data portal, which publishes daily statistics on where vehicle crashes happen in the five boroughs, who they involve, their causes and their locations is information the lawyers at the top auto accident injury law firm of Dankner Milstein, P.C. decided to share with readers of this blog. “We

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February 11, 2017

Top New York Lawyers Explain The Rise in Car Accidents

Insite from the Best New York Car Accident Lawyers NYC DOT REPORTS DRAMATIC INCREASE IN AUTO ACCIDENTS IN 2016 AS USE OF APP-BASED FOR HIRE CAR SERVICES INCREASES As the popularity and use of app-based for-hire car services like Uber literally increases daily in New York City, so, too, has the number of motor vehicle accidents that have been reported so far this year. To date in 2016 there have been nearly 2,400 more driver injuries than

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October 24, 2016

TOP MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT LAYWER HAS ADVICE FOR BUYERS OF CARS, TRUCK AND MOTORCYCLES

TOP NEW YORK MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT LAWYERS It’s not just bad drivers who can cause auto, truck or motorcycle accidents. Every year, thousands of motor vehicles with critical defects are introduced into the nation’s roadways because manufacturers failed to recognize a problem or design defect, or worse yet, chose to save money and not redesign the vehicle even if they were aware of a potentially deadly problem with the vehicle. Defects in older vehicles are constantly

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August 13, 2016

BURDEN OF PROOF, AND WHAT IT MEANS: TOP NEW YORK PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAWYER EXPLAINS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINAL VS. CIVIL TRIALS

TOP NEW YORK PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAWYERS ON THE BURDEN OF TRUTH Twenty years ago OJ Simpson was arrested for the killings of his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her lover Ronald Lyle Goldman, a restaurant waiter. Those old enough may remember the white Ford Bronco chase through the streets of Los Angeles where a despondent Simpson, a fugitive from justice, lay in the back seat of the truck, allegedly distraught and suicidal, while his

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August 10, 2016

NIHLS BOHLIN, LIFE SAVER EXTRAORDINAIR

Products Liability Lawyers Influence on Public Safety This upcoming July 17 is the birthday of the late Nils Bohlin. Who was Nils Bohlin, you might ask? Fact is he may very well be responsible for saving more lives, and preventing more serious injuries, than any human in history, according to one top products liability lawyer at the law firm of Dankner Milstein, P.C. who is familiar with Mr. Bohlin’s extraordinary contribution to human safety. Bohlin was

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August 10, 2016

FOR MAYOR DE BLASIO’S PLAN TO WORK, TOP NEW YORK AUTO ACCIDENT LAWYER WEIGHS IN

INSIGHT FROM THE TOP NEW YORK CAR, TRUCK AND BUS ACCIDENT LAWYERS MOTORISTS MUST PAY HIGHER PRICE FOR RECKLESS DRIVING It could happen in an instant. Like last Friday, for example, when a reckless driver took the life of a 37-year-old woman who had just gotten off work at 5:00 p.m. and was heading home for the weekend. As is the case in so many other similar situations involving innocent pedestrians in New York City,

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August 3, 2016
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