Our provincial leaders have identified a road safety issue and they are addressing it. Transportation Minister, Todd Stone, has promised legislation that will arm police to punish that scourge of road safety: the left lane hog. We need strong leadership
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This is not one of my “preachy” One Crash is Too Many columns. It is an expression of optimism and a call to action. My preachy approach of struggling to motivate a change in driver attitudes is getting tired, even
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I expressed excited optimism, in my last column, about automatic braking and other technologies that have a hope of finally putting a significant dent in our car crash epidemic. Two readers: Roger, a retired professional driver who has logged 2-3
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Another year of column writing behind me, it is time for my annual “all about me” column. Narcissistic of me? If you read my last column the way my father-in-law did, that adjective might jump to mind. He chuckled as
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I came very close to cutting off an oncoming cyclist the other day while I was making a left turn. It was one of those “close calls” that had been regular features of my driving experience until the Spring, 2012,
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“Sh”. That’s a heads up for those who may wonder what the dashes mean later in this column. I figure if I do it this way I’ll avoid shocking sensitive readers who might be offended by “dirty words” being spelled
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My 10 year old daughter, Morgan, “made the news” earlier this summer. Ok, perhaps it doesn’t count because it was her columnist father using her stick-whittling finger injury to make a point about parental liability. I had admitted my role
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In my last column, I explained the important role of “injury lawyers” in creating a safer society. Injury lawyers work to hold members of our society accountable for unsafe premises, products and conduct by using the law to extract fair
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My last column had to do with assigning legal liability (blame) for a camping injury to my ten year old daughter’s finger. I did a “tongue in cheek” analysis of blame, admitting that Santa Clause wasn’t the “plump, jolly culprit”
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“My mom was just in a pretty terrible crash and is headed to the hospital. The other driver didn’t stop. Not sure I’m going to make it in tomorrow”. That e-mail went to my iPhone just before 11:00 p.m., as
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