Utah Personal Injury Lawyers

In a January installment of her talk show, Winfrey discussed distracted driving with University of Utah researcher David Strayer, who has been studying distracted driving for a decade. Strayer says people overestimate their ability to multitask while driving. What they're really doing while talking on their phones is shifting their focus from the whole driving environment to a narrow strip directly ahead in their field of vision. Unfortunately, that narrowed view doesn't include many dangers to ourselves and others, including pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicles coming at us from our sides and other people and objects. Continue reading →

As sports headlines regularly remind us, full protection against brain injuries for athletes who play football, baseball, hockey and other high contact sports may never be achieved. But many states around the country have recently required high school athletic programs to implement head injury policies that reliably identify concussion victims and closely monitor their return to action.

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The lives of a couple from suburban Pittsburgh ended abruptly at the beginning of a three-week vacation as they drove to Las Vegas in mid-July to look for a retirement home. Russell and Emelda Welsh were pronounced dead on the scene on I-15 near Pintura after the trailer of an oncoming semi struck their Kia SUV head on. State troopers responding to the motor vehicle accident determined that a distracted truck driver swerved toward oncoming traffic to avoid rear-ending vehicles after failing to notice a slow down where each direction of I-15 narrowed to one lane due to a summer construction project. A separate accident an hour earlier in the same construction zone left a Utah woman in critical condition after she hit a bump and veered out of her lane into parked construction equipment.

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