June 2021

According to an AP News article, traffic deaths are up in the United States and may be associated with the pandemic. For reasons not fully understood, traffic fatalities also increased during the first nine months of 2020, despite Coronavirus lockdowns. In fact, according to the NHTSA, 28,190 people died in traffic accidents between January and September in 2020. This was a significant increase…

According to the NHTSA, 87 fatal accidents involving a semi-truck occurred in the state of Colorado during 2017. Those truck crash fatalities represented almost 10 percent of all fatal accidents in the state of Colorado. Unfortunately, due to the sheer size difference between a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle, the odds of those in the smaller vehicle being killed in a semi-truck crash…