Oct

22

Indiana Personal Injury Lawyers

October 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Did you know that you can buy Underinsured Motorist insurance coverage?  Did you know that it is cheap, costing maybe as little as 1/5th of your liability coverage?  So what is it and why is it important?  It is coverage that will protect you and your family if a negligent driver hits you and injures [...]

Oct

1

Indianapolis Injury Attorney

October 1, 2010 | Comments Off

Young and Young has been representing Hoosiers seriously injured by the negligence of others since 1954.  We travel all over the state of Indiana representing Hoosiers seriously injured in drunk driving accidents, construction accidents, semi tractor-trailer accidents, motorcycle accidents and auto accidents.  If the injuries are serious enough to render the injured Hoosier permanently disabled, [...]

Sep

28

Feds: About 1 in 5 Fatal Accidents Attributable To Cell Phones

September 28, 2010 | Comments Off

Figures released to coincide with this week’s distracted driving summit in Washington suggest that 18% of those killed in 2009 in distracted driving car wrecks were using a cell phone. Nationwide, fatalities linked to distracted driving (which include activities other than wireless devices) actually declined by 6 percent last year. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary [...]

Sep

1

Teen Driver Loses Control While Reaching For Cell Phone

September 1, 2010 | Comments Off

Local media reports that a Brazil, Indiana, teenager was injured in a one-car traffic accident on State Road 46 near Bowling Green yesterday morning.  The driver apparently became distracted while reaching for a cell phone, lost control, and struck an embankment and then a culvert.  First responders extricated her from the vehicle; the teen was [...]

Aug

30

Possible Link Found Between Concussions And ALS

August 30, 2010 | Comments Off

You’ve probably seen the footage of New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig giving his poignant retirement speech in 1939. Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable, fatal brain disease which became known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The field of traumatic brain injury is benefiting from a substantial amount of ongoing investigation conducted [...]

Aug

27

Alleged Drunk Driver Sends His Own Family To Hospital

August 27, 2010 | Comments Off

It’s bad enough for a drunk driver to harm someone in another car, but it’s even more devastating when the driver’s own family winds up in the emergency ward perhaps because of incredibly irresponsible behavior by the head of the household. Earlier this week, a motorist in Noble County, Indiana, failed to stop at an [...]

Aug

25

Teen Driver Allegedly Falls Asleep, Crashes Into Minivan

August 25, 2010 | Comments Off

A local Indiana media outlet is reporting that an 18-year-old man avoided serious injury despite being in a car-minivan accident westbound on the Indiana Toll Road. The accident occurred on Monday afternoon near the S.R. 19 overpass in Elkhart. The driver may have fallen asleep, according to the media report and perhaps as a result, [...]

Aug

25

Campus Safety Recommendations

August 25, 2010 | Comments Off

In addition to kids in public school, parents in this back-to-school season also need to be mindful of the safety of their children who have left the nest to embark on the new college semester. This is especially true for incoming freshman moving in to a dormitory for the first time and who may be [...]

Aug

24

Indiana Drunk Driving Attorney

August 24, 2010 | Comments Off

Drunk driving is all over the news in Indiana. Police officers allegedly in a drunk driving accident while on the job, and causing a collision which ends in wrongful death. Another officer allegedly in a drunk driving accident, a hit and run, while driving a police cruiser. At Young & Young, it is our position [...]

Aug

9

Traffic Accidents and Young Drivers: Five Contributing Factors

August 9, 2010 | Comments Off

Teenagers and cars can be risky business, even under the best of circumstances.  But it’s perhaps the worst of circumstances, i.e., when alcohol is involved, that highway safety for all concerned could be most compromised. The  inexperience of teenagers with the effects of alcohol, their fearless and/or reckless attitude towards real danger, and their skills [...]

Jul

22

Drunk Driver Sentenced To Prison Stretch

July 22, 2010 | Comments Off

A state motorist recently became subject to the full legal consequences of his involvement in an alcohol-related fatal accident in Gary, Indiana. The motorist, a 41-year-old man from Portage, received a 14-year sentence, the maximum allowable under Indiana law, as a result of crossing the center line and crashing head-on into a car driven by [...]

Jul

8

Indiana Drunk Driving Attorney

July 8, 2010 | Comments Off

John P. Young is your experienced drunk driving accident lawyer. Are you a member of MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving? Maybe you should consider membership. You can access MADD on the web at www.madd.org. Why should you join? You should join because in 2008 11,773 people died in wrongful death accidents caused by drunk drivers. [...]

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