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Consumer Reports Finds Young Adults Texting While Driving

A sobering study by Consumer Reports regarding mobile device use for drivers under the age of 30 recently found that of those surveyed: 63% used a cell phone while driving in the last 30 days; 30% texted while driving in the past 30 days; Only 36 % were very...

North Carolina Moves Forward To Ban Cell Phones While Driving

With the epidemic of texting while driving causing more and more serious crashes, injuries and deaths, the North Carolina Legislature is taking up the issue of a total ban of cell phones while driving a motor vehicle. North Carolina Lawyers Weekly covered...

Teen Texting While Driving Continues Despite Deaths & Laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRTwKminbQ With public attention focused on decreasing the use of cell phones in cars, by both teenage drivers and adults as well, data from the most recent studies indicate the danger continues to grow. The number of serious crashes...

Texting While Driving Claims Another North Carolina Teen’s Life

Another North Carolina teenager has tragically died as a result of texting while driving. WITN news just reported that yesterday afternoon at 3:42pm, Sarah Edwards appears to have glanced down at her cell phone to read a text message. That distraction caused her Honda...

Asheville Christmas Riding Toys Present Known Injury Hazard

With the last of the snow from the blizzard of 2009 slowly melting away, children will soon be wanting to get outside with some of their Christmas bounty. If your household is like mine, at least one of your kids got something from someone that they can ride. Riding...

Last Minute Christmas Shopping Tips & Ideas

For those of you like me who still have some, or all, or your Christmas shopping to do, here are a few tips and ideas that should help you 'git er done' before jolly Ole St. Nick takes to the air. First, last minute shopping requires a certain mindset or philosophy:...

TVs & Furniture In Asheville Create Tip-Over Hazard For Children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6oHH9GTzsg Each year, more than 10 children, most under 5, are killed when a piece of heavy furniture tips over onto them. Several thousand more young children are seriously injured each year in the same way. Most of these...

How To Avoid A Truck Accident In Asheville

With over 5,000 people dying in truck crashes each year on our nation's highways, it is important for every driver to understand all of the ways to avoid being involved in such a collision. 1. Stay Out Of The Truck's Blind Spots - If you are sharing the road...

Chewing Tobacco Lawsuit Nets $5 Million In 1st Ever Settlement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z77_TYp5wAc Big Tobacco recently paid $5 Million to settle a wrongful death claim to the Estate of Bobby Hill. A resident of Canton, North Carolina, Hill died from mouth cancer in 2003 at the young age of 42. He had been dipping since...