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Road safety – Impaired driving

  • Published by Paul Hergott, Personal Injury Lawyer,

Police can finally do the work we’ve been asking them to do: pulling those over the legal alcohol limit off the road.

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We need to hear the loud and clear message that keeping our brains on the task at hand is the key. That we must avoid behaviours that actively distract our brains. And that we must actively work to keep the

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“The crash occurred because I was texting, not because I was drunk. Now pay me the money!” That’s my blunt paraphrasing of a small claims lawsuit against ICBC. And it makes me feel sick to my stomach. The lawsuit arose

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It was out of character for Lori, the single, hard working, mother of four. She was always the one ensuring that no one would be drinking and driving. Imagine what her children, the youngest aged six, felt as their mother

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Witnesses to the Christmas morning danger of an erratic driver in West Kelowna did the right thing by calling 911. Police found him as he was pulling into a driveway. Turns out he had 2 ½ times the legal limit

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I used “drunk killer apologizes” as my internet search to find news reports of Marco Muzzo, the 29 year old drunk killer of three children and their grandfather, whose sentencing hearing in Newmarket, Ontario, made the news this past week. 

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‘Tis the season… According to a December 22nd news report, a Salmon Arm man stumbled out of a pub, tripped over a curb and walked into a tree before getting into his car and taking off.  It was by the

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I am lucky to have been born with the kind of analytical brain that works well with maths and sciences. Looking back, I feel that very little of the course work I did in maths and sciences has benefitted me

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My wife and I host a little pre-Christmas get-together every year to help get into the mood of the Season. The evening “activity” has a crew sitting around the piano with me taking requests from the Reader’s Digest “Merry Christmas