A current debate in Solon is centering on something not often considered by city residents, namely, this: whether the city should soon implement a sharpshooter culling program and pilot crossbow hunting program to reduce the presence of deer locally. Advocates of the idea point to statistics from the Ohio Department of Transportation (“ODOT”) indicating…
Ohio House Bill 99 bans texting while driving and will become law if it passes the Ohio Senate and is signed by Gov. John Kasich. Thirty-four other states have already enacted such legislation , based on strong and sobering empirical evidence that many thousands of fatal car accidents are caused in the United States…
Ohio State Highway Patrol (“OSHP”) statistics indicate that close to half of all fatal car accidents that have occurred so far this year within a five-county region of the state — Montgomery, Miami, Greene, Butler and Warren — took place in rural areas. There have been 60 fatal crashes within the region, with 28…
It is not often that the details underlying a car accident in Ohio are evaluated and ruled upon at every level of the state’s court system. Most car crashes, though, don’t involve issues of a municipality’s sovereign immunity, the distinction between a police officer’s arrest authority versus professional duty to respond to a call…
Between August and October each year, especially in the early morning hours, and particularly around 7 a.m. there is a recurring constant throughout Ohio: car accidents with teen drivers behind the wheel. Ohio safety investigators have always known that teenage motorists are a group unto themselves and scoring at the top (or, more precisely, at…
If Ohio was to be assigned a grade relating to its support for and adherence to core safety recommendations enumerated by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) as a means to reduce car accidents and traffic-related fatalities, it might be a “C.” That is, not sterling, yet not too bad. And when compared…
If you’re driving along in Ohio and see a smart-looking new vehicle in an adjacent lane, you might be surprised to find out just how truly “smart” that automobile is. Technological changes in the form of on-board safety features designed to help drivers avoid car accidents are inundating the automotive industry, cheered along at…
The central nexus between drunk drivers and fatal car accidents – 12, 744 DUI-related deaths in 2009, according to government statistics – is well recognized and can hardly be overstated. The FBI states that close to 1.5 million people are arrested each year on state roads and highways across the country for driving while…
Ohio traffic officials and safety experts, along with their counterparts throughout the rest of the country, focus on improving the safety environment as the primary means for reducing car accidents and safeguarding motorists’ lives. The emphasis is on improved road construction and engineering, logical signage, stronger and more stable vehicles, as well as laws…
When Clarence Ditlow says that, “This is an accident waiting to happen,” the Executive Director for the Center for Auto Safety is not referring to a drunk driver about to get into his or her car or a hazardous road condition that increases the risk of car accidents. Rather, he is referring to the…