Aggressive Driving Can Become A Habit

It is easy to espouse the virtues of careful, defensive driving when you are simply looking at statistics and philosophizing in an effort to promote safety. And of course this must be done because people and organizations that are committed to raising roadway safety awareness have to keep spreading the word and reminding people about [...]

Indiana Becomes 32nd State To Ban Texting While Driving

There are those who hear government officials and/or advocacy organizations talking about driver safety who let it all go in one ear and out the other. To these individuals such talk sounds like the voices of the adults in animated Charlie Brown television specials. But the reality is that when one of your children, a [...]

More Details Surface In Miles Case

This past Tuesday we passed along the news about the deadly roadway escapades of 21-year-old Brittany Miles.  She was driving a red pickup erratically early on Tuesday morning and was detained by Pasco County Sheriff’s deputy Ashley Grady. She somehow escaped the back of the cruiser and made it back into the pickup, striking the [...]

Semi Truck Strikes New Port Richey Woman

Of course nobody ever wants to be struck by a motor vehicle, but if it had to happen you would hope that you weren’t hit by a semi truck. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened to 38-year-old New Port Richey resident Sandy Weidner at about 9:00 on Wednesday morning. According to a story from the [...]

Traffic Safety Information

When you hear about all of the human suffering that takes place as a result of accidents on the roadways you do find that carelessness is at the root of a lot of it. But we live in a culture where driving is seen as being so routine it is almost viewed as an extension [...]

Hudson Traffic Stop Turns Deadly

We often attempt to underscore just how much damage can be done each time you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Virtually every day we hear about an incident that spiraled into something unthinkable when there was no criminal premeditation involved. More often than not this is the result of people simply failing [...]

U.S. Launches Decade of Action for Road Safety

The United Nations has sanctioned this decade as the Decade of Action For Road Safety, and there is a big kick-off event taking place in Washington D.C. this week. The specific location is Upper Senate Park which is on 200 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. and it will be held on Wednesday, May 11th, [...]

DUI Manslaughter, Vehicular Homicide Conviction In New Port Richey

There are those who hear warnings about driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs who let it all go in one ear and out the other. They reason that they have done it countless times and they are “able to handle it.” And even in the unlikely event they were to get pulled [...]

Pasco Motorcycle Accident Tuesday

There was yet another serious motorcycle accident in Pasco County on Tuesday, but at least for now the motorcyclist who was involved is still alive. It happened on Rowan Road on Tuesday night when 45-year-old New Port Richey resident Thomas Micklo collided with an elevated water pipe after losing control of his Suzuki while traveling [...]

Another State Bans Texting While Driving

Many people would say that it doesn’t take any kind of university or governmental study to prove that texting while driving is going to reduce your ability to safely operate a motor vehicle. This having been said, there have indeed been studies released that prove just how dangerous texting while driving can be. The reality [...]

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