Distracted driving is a serious problem in the U.S. It results in around 10,000 fatalities a year, many of which would never have had to have happened if not for being distracted behind the wheel. Distractions come in many forms. Though people often think of...
Once you decide to divorce, you’re likely to have questions and concerns about your current financial circumstances as well as how you’ll stabilize your situation in the future. As you turn your attention to your finances, you’ll come to find that you need a variety...
According to the Brain Injury Association of America, someone in this country suffers an acquired brain injury every nine seconds of the day. Many of those injuries are related to strokes, complications of disease or trauma -- and they leave victims struggling with a...
Motorcyclists in South Carolina and around the nation share the roads with drivers of bigger automobiles, trucks and buses, and they are in much greater danger of being injured in a crash than other drivers. In fact, motorcycle crashes are 27 times more likely to...
You know better than to drive while intoxicated, and you know your limits. What you may not know, however, is that any alcohol in your system -- and many prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications -- can still expose you to a charge of driving under the...
When you and your ex go through a divorce, you have to think about how you’re going to help your children through the issues that are going to come up. One of the biggest challenges that they’re going to face is learning how to live in two homes. For most children,...
To be perfectly direct: It’s never smart to drive under the influence (DUI) of drugs or alcohol. You can end up in a serious accident that puts your life -- and the lives of others -- in danger. If you happen to be a doctor or another medical professional, you can...
Police officers can’t pull over vehicles just because they feel like it. Instead, they either have to have a specific pattern for stopping them, such as during a sobriety checkpoint, or they have to have reasonable suspicion. The legal standard for reasonable...
