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We’ve been following the Toyota recalls here at GJEL for the past several months. We’ve reported on the recalls that were in response to runaway vehicles, and about the potential recall on the 2010 model of the Prius Hybrid because of faulty brakes. Today, there are four new developments. The first is good news, the [...]

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Toyota Motor Corp. has been all over the news lately. With all the news about Toyota recalling dozens of models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles for design flaws in the floor mats and accelerator pedals that can cause cars to accelerate uncontrollably, it’s hard to imagine that things could get worse for the car company. [...]

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According to the New York Times, Toyota Motor Corp announced a recall today of eight models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Europe. That recall affects 1.8 million cars, bringing the current total number of vehicles affected up to nearly 9 million.
What’s Wrong With These Cars?
In the last two years, there have been five fatal [...]

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The Transportation Department announced on Tuesday, January 26th, that it is prohibiting bus and truck drivers from texting while driving commercial vehicles, according to National Public Radio. The ban goes into place immediately, but is only applicable to drivers who are driving vehicles that weigh 10,000 pounds or more.
This federal ban expands the ban that [...]

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There’s no doubt that drivers are constantly bombarded by distractions. At any given time on the highway, you can see someone eating, applying make-up, fiddling with an iPod or GPS device, yelling at the kids in the back seat, or talking on a cell phone–or worse–texting on a cell phone. To a certain extent, some [...]

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According to Paulson Coletti Trial Attorneys’ website, “ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) reports that in the year 2000 there were over 46,000 motor vehicle accidents, resulting in 27,503 injured and 451 deaths, in the State of Oregon.” The numbers are high, and as of this year, Oregon is making one [...]

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This post is the second in a series of Thanksgiving posts. Stay tuned from now until Thanksgiving to read about how you can keep yourself and your loved ones safe on the roads this holiday season and beyond.
During the financial crisis in 2008, there was  a 25% drop in Thanksgiving traffic, making the crowded roads [...]

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This post is first in a series of Thanksgiving posts. Stay tuned from now until Thanksgiving to read about how you can keep yourself and your loved ones safe on the roads this holiday season and beyond.
I’ve written a lot about distracted driving here on the GJEL blog. It’s something that can happen to many [...]

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It’s no secret that teen drivers aren’t always the safest. Automobile accidents involving 16-year-olds occur nine times more than those involving 20-year-olds, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. And 17-year-olds’ rate of auto accidents is six times higher than that of adults. The American Automobile Association says that here in California,  18,000 teens are [...]

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It’s been all over the Bay Area news: A man in a big rig drove right off the side of the new S-curve in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and landed on Yerba Buena island. The accident killed him.
The S-curve has been in place since Labor Day weekend of this year. It’s part of the [...]

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