Snow and Frigid Temperatures Cause Dangerous Road Conditions in Pennsylvania

Snowy road conditions have already caused hundreds of accidents in Pennsylvania this winter, shutting down highways and resulting in deaths and many injuries. During a sudden heavy storm over the recent holidays, a chain reaction crash involving 35 vehicles closed down a section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Several tractor-trailers were mixed in the wreckage, which caused a 4-mile traffic jam. Ten people were taken to area hospitals.

According to a Pennsylvania personal injury lawyer, those same wintry conditions existed when more than 40 vehicles piled up in multiple crashes on I-78, closing the interstate for a time, and resulting in more than 60 injuries. State Police also reported that sudden snow squalls causing numerous accidents resulted in the Northeast Extension of the turnpike being closed on Christmas Eve from Clarks Summit to Allentown. Numerous accidents have also been reported on smaller roadways throughout Pennsylvania.

Advice from Pennsylvania personal injury attorney Julia Munley on what to do if you are in an accident. […]

A Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer tells you what you should do right after a car accident

Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer: After you get into an accident, there are things that you can choose to DO and NOT DO right afterward that may affect your injury claim against the other driver’s insurance company.

A Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer will advise doing the following right after the accident takes place:

• Stay inside your vehicle unless it’s too dangerous to do so
• Turn on your hazard lights
• Call 911 even if the accident didn’t seem too bad
• Seek medical help for anyone involved in the accident if needed
• Don’t move any vehicles or alter the scene unless you have to
• Don’t leave the scene
• Write down the names, addresses and phone numbers of everybody involved in the accident, including witnesses
• Write down the names/badge numbers of police officers who come to investigate
• Take pictures of injures and damage
• DON’T admit fault
• Call your insurance company right away and let them know what happened
• DON’T talk about the accident with anyone except the police and your own insurance company. […]

How Much Will You Have to Pay an Injury Lawyer to Help Win Your Car Accident Case?

How much may you have to pay a Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer to help you?

Here’s something that may make you feel better if you’re fretting about getting a Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer involved in your case: Pennsylvania Injury Lawyers work on a contingency fee basis; this means that they don’t make any money unless they win your case. So you don’t have to worry at all about paying them out of pocket.

Another reason you shouldn’t worry about talking to a Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer:

You can call a Pennsylvania Injury Lawyer at Munley Law Personal Injury Attorneys anytime, or come into our office and talk to us – all for free. We know you have questions, and we can answer as many as you’d like. We don’t bill by the hour, we’re not out to take money from you; as injury lawyers in Pennsylvania, our job is to deal with the insurance companies – […]

Car Runs Into House in Lancaster County

Driver falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into home

Not all car crashes in Pennsylvania involve one motor vehicle colliding with another. Some wrecks are the result of rollovers and other single-vehicle accidents. Other times, automobiles crash into fixed objects – like a house.

A case in point happened February 16 in Lancaster County, when a passenger car smashed through the wall of a private home in East Earl Township. A resident inside was knocked from the couch where he had been sleeping. He suffered minor injuries.

The accident occurred in the early morning hours. The driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, and police are investigating whether alcohol was a contributing factor.

There were 121,312 traffic crashes in Pennsylvania in 2010, according to reports filed with the state Department of Transportation. These wrecks claimed the lives of 1,324 people and injured another 87,949 people. […]

Red Light Cameras Reduce Intersection Wrecks

Placing video cameras on stoplights cuts down on drivers running red lights by more than 80 percent, new research suggests. The result: fewer intersection crashes and auto accident deaths.

Those are the key findings from a just-released traffic safety study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

“This study provides fresh evidence that automated enforcement can get drivers to modify their behavior,” said Anne McCartt, senior vice president for research at IIHS and the study’s lead author, in a news release.

Approximately 540 towns and cities nationwide have red light cameras. A growing string of studies have shown that the devices curb automobile accidents and improve road safety.

The most recent study involved filming traffic flow at four heavily-traveled intersections in Arlington, Virginia. One camera was installed at each intersection.

Motorists were given a 30-day warning period before enforcement began. […]