Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Staying Safe While Driving on Unfamiliar Roads
As Spring approaches and brings warmer weather with it, people from all over the country will be taking advantage of the sunshine by taking road trips. While road trips provide the opportunity for a bonding experience and can be an affordable and convenient way for your entire family to travel, undertaking one also means… Read More »
Understanding What to do After a Car Accident Where Your Child is Present
No parent wants to think about the possibility of harm befalling their children. Yet we all know that at some point, every parent has to bandage up a cut or scrape resulting from playground horseplay. And sometimes parents have to ponder even more serious injuries such as those that happen during car accidents. According… Read More »
What You Should Know About Red Light Cameras
What Are Red Light Cameras? A red light camera is a kind of traffic enforcement camera that is intended to detect traffic infractions by capturing an image of a vehicle which has entered an intersection in violation of a “red” traffic signal. If, on review, a vehicle was indeed in the intersection during a… Read More »
Dealing With a Driver Post-Accident Who is Impaired By Opioids
We have all been indoctrinated with the knowledge that after a car accident, the responsible thing to do is to get out of your vehicle and exchange contact information with the other driver. However, the landscape of our country is changing in a day and age where opioid use is rampant. In a disturbing… Read More »
How to Avoid a Staged Accident
While you may think that car accident fraud is something that the insurance companies make up in order to justify higher premiums, this is actually a very real concept that occurs more often than you probably think. Unfortunately, there are people who are looking to scam drivers that are just trying to make it… Read More »
Florida’s Tragic Drowning Death Accidents and What You Can Do to Help Prevent Them
For many Floridians, Florida’s almost year-round sunny weather represents an excellent reason to seek out a house with a pool in the backyard. After a long day at work, there are few things more relaxing than being able to come home and jump into your pool to cool off and relax. And for the… Read More »
The Latest Example of Why Young Drivers and Social Media is a Bad Combination
Many people have heard of the popular movie Bird Box even if they have not seen it. After all, news of the Netflix movie has been spread through word-of-mouth as well as the many memes that have appeared on social media. Social media has, unfortunately, embraced the movie in a dangerous way – the… Read More »
Why is South Florida So Dangerous For Pedestrians?
According to an article recently published by WPTV News 5, South Florida is one of the most dangerous areas in the country for pedestrians. The “Dangerous by Design”study highlighted in the article reportedly measured how many pedestrians are hit and killed by drivers every year, in relation to the population of those areas. That… Read More »
How to Avoid a Road Rage Incident
When you decide to hit the road, you probably don’t give much thought to the other people who will be driving alongside you. And this makes sense as the overwhelming majority of the people you end up in a lane next to will not have any impact on whether you safely reach your destination…. Read More »
Why the Family of the Teen Killed Last Year in a Tesla Crash is Suing the Car Manufacturer and What You’d Need to Know if it Happened to Your Loved One
The South Florida Sun Sentinel has reported that the family of an 18-year-old boy who was killed last year in a fiery Tesla crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the car manufacturer and one of its Broward County employees. The lawsuit alleges that the car was defective and that the worker negligently… Read More »