We are currently in the middle of hurricane season and while it has been a relatively quiet start to the stormy time of year, anything can happen and more named storms are likely to occur.  It is for this reason and the fact that at this time of year, extreme temperature changes often happen and storms pop up relatively quickly that it is important to know what to do if you are driving and a storm happens.  You will want to take some safety measures to protect you and your loved ones who you are driving with to help avoid a New Haven auto accident. Before you leave your house, even if it is a sunny day, you should do a safety check of your vehicle in case a storm comes out of nowhere and you are not prepared.  You should make sure your windshield wipers are properly installed and have been tested to make sure that if you are presented with a large amount of water on your windshield that they are able to clear the water away easily.  Once you’ve preformed a safety check on your wipers, you can head out knowing that you will be able to face the rise of a sudden storm safely. Now, what to do if you are out driving and all of a sudden a storm pops up? …continue reading

We hope that you are never in a New Haven auto accident, but if you do, you should be prepared with what information you collect.  If you leave the scene of the accident without all of the pertinent information it can slow down your insurance claim or completely stall it and not allow you to get the proper financial and medical attention that you need and are entitled to.  In that vein, it is important that you know what information you need to collect so when you sit down to file your claim or work with one of our experienced attorneys to help you with your claim you have all of the information you need. Understanding the need for this information is important whether you are the driver of the vehicle or a passenger as often what will happen is that the driver will get shaken up by the accident and she/he will forget bits and pieces of the information that is needed.  It is important to have someone by your side who can be a second memory to encourage you to get all of the information that you need to make sure you are protected in the long run.  If you’re a passenger in a vehicle you should be prepared with this information as well. The information that you need to collect will depend…continue reading

When you first hear about someone running into a tree you may think to yourself, how is that even possible.  The truth of the matter is that running into a tree or any inanimate object as part of a New Haven auto accident is not all that strange or unusual.  The bad news is that it can often be deadly, as in the case of this Northford man who recently ran into a tree while driving in North Haven.  The good news is that accidents with inanimate objects can also be somewhat easily preventable. Drivers who find themselves injured after an accident with an inanimate object are often not entirely sure how the accident happened because at the time they became out of control and did not have rationality about their space or surroundings.  These accidents don’t always happen due to gross negligence on the part of the driver and sometimes they are not the result of one factor alone.  There can be multiple factors at play.  For instance, a driver may have to swerve out of her/his lane due to on-coming traffic or an animal in the road and that may suddenly put the car in a tailspin that could result in the car going out of control and hitting an inanimate object.  This is just one among many situations where it may not be…continue reading

A recent incident in Tennessee is shedding some light on the dangers of allowing your dog to be off it’s leash, especially around traffic.  A 33-year old man was killed after chasing his dog into on-coming traffic.  By all accounts, the driver who hit and killed the man was driving lawfully down the road when the pedestrian stepped into the road and was struck.  This dangerous scenario could have been prevented if the dog had been kept on it’s leash and the man had been able to keep him out of harms way before entering the traffic. When you’re in rural Tennessee there may be less traffic and fewer chances that something like this fluke accident will happen, but when you’re on the streets of the city of New Haven, there is a greater risk, especially if your dog is off it’s leash that the dog or you, the owner, could find yourself injured or killed in a New Haven auto accident.  While there may be options for dogs to run loose in rural areas, in a crowded city like New Haven, there need to be safeguards put in place so an animal getting loose does not cause an accident where a man dies trying to save his pet from danger. Here are some things you can do to make sure this situation does not…continue reading