To many, there’s nothing more relaxing than a couple rounds of golf at a local club. That is, unless you lose control of your golf cart and crash.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with the Columbia ParCar Corporation of Wisconsin, has announced a recall of certain 2009, 2010, and 2011 Columbia ParCar golf carts, low speed service and utility vehicles. They were sold by ParCar dealers between July 1, 2008 and July 31, 2011 and ranged in price from $5,000 to $12,000. For the affected VIN numbers and specific units, please see the CPSC’s website. About 1,400 of the vehicles are affected.
The problem involves the proclivity of the lower steering yoke to become loose where it connects with the steering rack and pinion. If this happens, control can be lost and the vehicle may crash. If your vehicle is affected, you can bring it to a local ParCar dealer for a free inspection and maintenance.
As a San Francisco personal injury lawyer, I find it unfortunate that this product is experiencing these problems, but hopefully the recall information can filter out before any consumer is negatively affected. As a personal injury lawyer in San Francisco, I would hate to see someone hurt while engaging in a seemingly low-risk activity.
Slip and fall cases can be expensive to the companies being sued, but they can be even more so when the offending company is found to have tampered with crucial evidence.
A man from Douglasville, Georgia, has won a $2.3 million lawsuit against the Kroger Co. grocery chain. The plaintiff had slipped on crushed fruit in the deli area of a Kroger store and fell onto his back. As a result, his lawyer said that the man suffered a spinal injury, requiring multiple surgeries totaling $135,000 and losing his ability to work.
What especially got Kroger into hot water was their apparent destruction of crucial video evidence of the slip in question. Kroger lawyers claimed that tapes are only saved for 17 days and the tapes from that day had been erased. They also provided sample images to prove that the camera did not even point in the direction of the fall.
However, a demonstration of the cameras proved that the camera was actually centered on the spot where the fall took place. The judge found that Kroger had destroyed the critical video evidence, and a jury came back with the $2.3 million verdict.
As a personal injury lawyer in Riverside, I’ve dealt with a number of slip-and-fall cases. Being able to provide the proper evidence is all-important in such cases. If you’re ever involved in an unfortunate accident, keep track of everything that happens, and a Riverside personal injury lawyer like myself will hopefully be able to help.
Driving a vehicle is hazardous enough, but once you’re parked and out of the car, you think you’re all good, right? Well, as it turns out, you don’t even have to be inside of your car for it to potentially cause damage to others.
BMW AG has announced a recall of certain of its 2012 model 20X5 xDrive 35i sport-utility vehicles. Only six vehicles are affected by the design flaw, but as you’ll see, the safety hazard is a large one. The vehicles were built between December 19 and December 21, 2011.
A production error affected the transmission case, causing the surface not be be properly machined. This means that possible excess friction in the transmission can prevent the vehicle from properly engaging its parking lock. Therefore, if the driver of the vehicle does not set the parking brake, the vehicle could roll away after the operator steps out.
Drivers of the affected automobiles can have their transmissions replaced by the company free of charge.
As a San Diego car accident lawyer, I’m used to dealing with cases involving cars where the driver is actually inside the vehicle, but one can see how this would still be a safety hazard. I hope the problem is fixed before a serious incident occurs, and as a car accident lawyer in San Diego, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to heed all recall directives.
Not all streets are created equal. Pedestrian accidents are a cause for concern all across the country, but some communities are hit harder than others.
One such city is trying to do something about this. Tucson, which last year experienced 25 fatal or near-fatal accidents involving pedestrians, has created a pedestrian safety task force to combat their problem. They also brought in a national safety expert to see what could be done to improve safety along Tucson’s roads.
The accidents have occurred all over the city, thus making the problem slightly harder to correct, but not impossible. The pedestrian safety expert emphasized that there is a pattern to the incidents.
One of the chief ways to make the city safer is to make the streets themselves narrower. Doing so creates fewer lanes of traffic. As an added benefit, reducing the lanes also saves money in a down economy, as was noted by a local Neighborhood Association member.
The safety expert’s biggest piece of advice however, also appears to be the simplest: be alert and slow down.
As a personal injury attorney in Bakersfield, I know how important it is for both pedestrians and driver to stay alert. Whether we’re driving or walking or hopping on a pogo stick, we should stay vigilant for upcoming obstacles and take every possible precaution. Safety is the number one priority for a Bakersfield personal injury attorney like me, and I’m glad to see steps taken to improve safety anywhere in the country.
Recall information can sometimes act like a light in the darkness, warding off danger to ensure that you, the consumer, remains safe from potentially hazardous materials.
Today, this proves literally true as the recall concerns a certain type of flashlight. BJ’s Wholesale Club has announced a recall of around 41,000 LED flashlight and battery sets.
The product is question is a Superex SAFETOGO LED flashlight and battery pack. The pack includes a 9.5 inch flashlight with 10 LEDs, two six inch flashlights with seven LEDs, seven D batteries and four AA batteries. The flashlights are made of red and black plastic and the UPC 0-56986-01008-3 and SKU 700935 are printed on the back of the package.
The flashlights may pose a fire hazard in that they can heat up, smoke, or melt when turned on. Two incidents have been reported at this time, one where the product overheated and even one in which the product burned and issued a loud noise. One consumer suffered a minor injury to his or her hand.
The item, which was sold at BJ’s for $15 between July and December 2011, can be brought back to the store for a full refund. Consumers should stop usage at once.
As a personal injury lawyer in Ventura, I’ve seen a number of cases where a product can malfunction. Recalls are essential in keeping consumers safe, and they should be heeded by all product users. That way, you can avoid an injury that could lead you to a Ventura personal injury lawyer like myself.
For awhile now, all sorts of people have been talking up the dangers inherent in texting while driving. Yet, for all the hard work some people do to bring awareness to this cause, people continue to distract themselves by texting on their phones. Now, though, comes a study that might prove a bit more effective in curbing texting, because it purports to illustrate how texting while driving can actually hurt your wallet.
Insurance companies, apparently fed up with the number of accidents occurring due to texting, are raising premiums on offenders. This is according to a study done by a leading insurance quotes website, which also found that nearly 10% of drivers nationwide text while behind the wheel.
These aren’t the only measures insurance companies are seeking to put into place. There’s even talk of creating a text-blocking app or installing a device on a car that would block all cell phone’s signal while in motion.
As a San Francisco car accident lawyer, I’ve seen firsthand how prevalent an issue texting while driving is. Perhaps raising insurance rates on those who make the mistake is the best way to keep peoples’ eyes on the road. To a car accident lawyer in San Francisco like me, this seems like an idea that just might work.
It’s not often than an automobile safety issue can become a political talking point in the battle between Democrats and Republicans, but here we are.
Republicans have recently taken to questioning the government under the Obama administration over whether or not they have a conflict of interest in investigating battery fires in General Motors’s Chevy Volt. The government, you see, owns 26.5% of the company’s shares.
For their part, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claims that they did not give the company a free pass.
The argument stems from an incident in June in which a test car caught fire weeks after a side-impact test. Two other safety tests also created fires. An investigation was launched on November 25, and last week, the government stated that the electric Volt did not pose a greater fire risk than gasoline-fueled counterparts. Republicans are condemning the delay between the initial fire and the investigation announcement, a delay they say was used to broker new mileage standards.
As a car accident attorney in Fresno, I hate to see matters of safety being used as a tool for a political cause. I like to think that safety is paramount to anyone in a position of power, and I hope that societal welfare is never put at risk for the sake of politics. I’m a Fresno car accident lawyer, and I think those in power need to learn to put politics aside to further the common good.
It’s easy to see that, with various technological innovations, automobiles are now safer than they’ve ever been. A number of complex systems are in place to ensure that your commute is worry-free, with the advent of computers making our lives on the road easier than ever.
But can the very systems we’ve developed to keep us safe actually turn out to be a hazard themselves? That’s what a new report suggests. Computers are now central to a car’s operation, and their importance will continue to increase as we push farther into the digital era. But just like your home PC, a car’s computer system isn’t invulnerable to a bug or a crash.
Also just like your home PC, an automobile’s computer is vulnerable to hackers. Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, recently showed that a vehicle’s computer could be hacked through physical contact or wirelessly via Bluetooth. Because we live in such a new frontier of vehicular design and car safety, cybersecurity has been given short shrift by automobile manufacturers because threats simply haven’t shown themselves yet.
As a Long Beach car accident attorney, I look forward to a new era of safety that can be brought about by the multitude of advances occurring right now in the automotive industry. But as we develop new and better ways to drive, it’s crucial to also pay attention to the many threats that can present themselves in time. As a car accident attorney in Long Beach, it’s plain to me that car security is about to get very interesting in the near future.
With so many products out there, it can sometimes be quite difficult to keep up with product recalls and safety information. That’s why I was glad this morning to see a company working hard to help get dangerous products off the streets.
Toys ‘R Us is once again promoting a program called the “Great Trade-In” event. What this program basically does is allow consumers to bring old, used, and potentially unsafe products in to a local Toys ‘R Us store and exchange them for a new item of a similar make. The program was first introduced in 2009 as a way to curtail the danger posed by various hand-me-down products that may have been recalled or no longer comply with federal safety guidelines.
Since the first event, around 600,000 products have been traded in for a safer alternative. For the upcoming promotion, which beginss on January 27, consumers can bring in items such as cribs, high chairs, and strollers in exchange for a 25% discount on a similar item from selected manufacturers.
As a Ventura personal injury attorney, I can tell you how important product recalls are, but I also know that it’s often hard to keep track of a seemingly endless amount of safety information, especially if money is an issue. Events like the one described above do a great service to consumers across the country, and as a personal injury attorney in Ventura, I urge everyone out there to take part in this event if you think it could help make your household safer.
As a Bakersfield car accident attorney, I know how dangerous driving on the roads can sometimes be. We rely on our cars to keep us safe from any and all possible obstacles. That’s why it’s so sad to see the very systems we rely on turn out to be faulty in some aspect.
The Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corporation has issued a recall of a very specific series of tires. The size P225/60R16 tires in question were manufactured at a plant in White, Georgia between the 38th week of 2009 and the 44th week of 2010.
The problem involves the bead area of the tires. Apparently, the product may have been made with a kink in this area. If left unchecked, this kink could produce a crack in the bead area near the rim. If this happens, it could mean the failure of the tire, which would result in loss of vehicle control and a possible crash.
To tell if one of your tires is affected, one must check the last four digits of the TIN on the sidewall. The affected units range from 3809 to 4410. If your vehicle is affected, you can have the tires replaced for free.
Any car accident is a tragedy, but as a car accident attorney in Bakersfield, the ones that really sting are those in which the crash resulted through no error on the driver’s part. It’s too bad that such a problem as described could develop, but it’s nice to see a recall announced to fix the issue.
