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Posted on Jul 25, 2018 By David Thomas
MOVE OVER, CARPOOL KARAOKE In what may be a sinister twist on the popular series with James Corden known as “Carpool Karaoke,” a driver for the ride share services Uber and Lyft recorded ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2018 By David Thomas
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY BECOMES MANSLAUGHTER On June 19, 2018, almost two months to the day after the fatal accident of an Uber self-driving car and a pedestrian in Tempe Arizona, police there released a ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2017 By David Thomas
A NEAR MISS There I was, in the parking lot of a crowded shopping plaza last week. I had my turn signal on, and after waiting for traffic to pass, turned left into the lane to look for a parking spot. ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2017 By David Thomas
STATISTICS CAN LIE Driver distraction—a term which encompasses all sorts of activities that decrease a driver’s focus on the task at hand—is not only hard to stop, but it is hard to ...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2017 By David Thomas
WHEN WORDS KILL This week’s blog is departing from Thomas Law’s personal injury topics to discuss an important verdict in the so-called texting suicide case in Massachusetts. The case, and ...
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Posted on Jan 22, 2017 By David Thomas
THE EXERCISE EXPLOSION It’s January. It’s that time of year again. The holidays are over, and now the sad reality of how much we ate, drank and made merry is upon us. Consequently, many of ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2016 By David Thomas
THE MULTI-TASKING MYTH Many of us think we can do two things at once. In fact, many of us pride ourselves on doing more than one thing at a time. In our fast-paced world, doing multiple tasks at once, ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2016 By David Thomas
A RECORD-SETTING WEEKEND IN A RECORD-SETTING YEAR The July 4th weekend promises to be another 2016 holiday in which record-setting numbers of people travel to enjoy family and festivities. Currently, ...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2016 By David Thomas
A DISTURBING TREND From the 1970s to 2000, pedestrian deaths as a percentage of motor vehicle fatalities declined steadily. But from 2009 to the present, pedestrian fatalities have increased by 15% to ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2015 By David Thomas
WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE ON OUR CHRISTMAS LIST It is all over the news. It dominates the political debate and the upcoming election cycle. It has Congress passing new legislation. It has journalists ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2015 By David Thomas
WHAT YOU WEAR CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU IN A COURT OF LAW Have we arrived at the point in time where the famous Miranda warning should be revised to advise suspects that not only what they say ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2013 By David Thomas
In the first case of its kind, a woman in California was pulled over on October 29, 2013, for speeding and issued an additional citation for driving while wearing her Google Glass. While Cecilia ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2013 By David Thomas
By now, every driver knows that texting while behind the wheel is dangerous. So dangerous, in fact, that getting behind the wheel and texting is 23 times more likely to cause accidents than getting ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2013 By David Thomas
Last week, on September 19th, the Mayor of Athens-Clarke County Nancy Denson declared the day " Don't Text and Drive Day " and coordinated the message with the national " It Can ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2013 By David Thomas
We are all tempted to do it. We hear the familiar sound on our cell phone indicating a text message has just come through, and we reach for the phone. We are sitting at a traffic light and think we ...
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