According to a study released by Allstate, drivers in Las Vegas are 15 percent more likely to be in an automobile accident than the national average

The annual America’s Best Drivers Report says that the typical driver in Las Vegas will be in an accident once every nine years, ranking the city 123rd safest for driving out of 200.

Las Vegas has actually improved seven spots in the ranking, compared to last year, but is still behind several cities in Nevada with Henderson 57^th and North Las Vegas at number 130 and having a collision-frequency rate 17 percent above the national average.

Reno was the best performing in the state ranking 17th with its drivers having an accident once every 11.7 years on average.

The safest driving city in the country, according to the report, is Fort Collins, Colorado and the worst cities for driving include Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.

If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious car accident, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.

At around 7.45 pm on Sunday night, a motorcyclist was killed in an accident on Blue Diamond and Arlington Ranch, just west of Durango.

According to Nevada Highway Patrol, 38 year old Brendon Harris was speeding and being operated in a reckless manner on a yellow Honda motorcycle when he collided with a 67 year old woman driving a Honda CRV. She was making a legal left-hand turn from Blue Diamond onto Arlington Ranch.

The impact of the crash threw the motorcyclist from his bike and he was taken to UMC by air ambulance where he was pronounced dead.

The woman in the car was also taken to UMC with non-life threatening injuries.

Nevada Highway Patrol say that the crash is still being investigated and  this is the 38th fatal accident in the Southern Command and the 12th involving a motorcycle this year.

According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, a Pahrump woman was killed on Friday when a tire on the Mercedes-Benz she was driving failed and the car overturned.

The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. as she was going northbound on U.S. 95 north of mile marker 33 in Nye County.

Officials said that it seems that the woman lost control when the right rear tire failed and the car ran off the highway and overturned. As the car overturned, the 37 year old driver was partially ejected.  The Mercedes came to rest on its wheels facing southeast in the natural desert terrain east of the roadway.

Officials went on to say that a preliminary investigation discovered that the woman was not wearing a seat belt. However they were still unaware as to what caused the tire to fail.

She was pronounced dead at the scene, but her name was not immediately released.

If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious Reno car crash involving a defective or blown out tire, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.

A crash early Saturday morning in the southeast valley left a man dead.

According to Trooper Loy Hixson of Nevada Highway Patrol, they responded around 3 a.m. to the fatal accident on southbound U.S. Highway 95 at Flamingo Road.

Hixson said that a black Volkswagen hatchback was driving southbound on the 95 at a high speed when it struck the rear end of a red Honda Civic, which caused both cars to go out of control.

The Volkswagen swerved to the right and rolled over several times and the 25-year-old driver was thrown from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene and has not as yet been identified

The 22-year-old driver of the Civic veered left and struck the center median. She only had minor injuries and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Hixon said that it was  not yet known if alcohol played a role in the accident, but the woman who was driving the Civic was suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The 95 was shut down until just before 7 a.m., when the left two lanes were re-opened to traffic.

If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious Reno car crash, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.

Researchers at the University of Colorado together with RAND Corporation, led by Daniel Kaffine, associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado, have being looking at the effectiveness of the laws, banning driving with a hand held mobile phone.

They looked at accident rates in California, both before and after July 2008 which was when the law was enacted. They took into account gas prices, miles traveled, rainfall, and holidays, which all impact on traffic patterns and crashes. They expected to find a five to 10 percent drop in accidents but surprisingly there was no difference in the rate of accidents after the ban on using hand held phones was introduced.

Kaffine concluded that bans have little impact on accidents, as drivers simply ignore the law, and even if they switch to hands free devices, they appear to be just as dangerous. He concluded that the problem was one of compliance, so increasing the fines for talking on cell phones would likely increase the effectiveness of the ban. However, if a person was constantly distracted while driving, and using the cell phone was just one of many things they might do, that was a different problem to resolve.

If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious car accident involving a driver who was driving while distracted, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.

At the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas, the Global Consumer and Electronics show, a self parking demonstration has been held. This is an idea which was science fiction a few years ago but it is now becoming reality. The technology has been developed by Swedish car manufacturer Volvo and French parts maker Valeo, and while still at the prototype stage it could be widely available within six years.

The car, with no one on board, can drive into a narrow car park space and park itself without hitting anything around it. Now some vehicles can already drive themselves in certain circumstances such as the Mercedes CLS coupe, which brakes by itself when the driver forgets, and some BMW models can go onto automatic pilot in traffic jams and warn drivers if they are about to go over a white line.

However, rapid progress in both radar and detection camera technology, lets cars see what is going on around them and onboard computers make the car react accordingly.

Now car manufacturers believe that by 2020 there will be cars which can drive by themselves and total robot cars by 2030.

During the first six months of this year, vehicle crashes resulting in fatalities have fallen by nearly 20 percent in Southern Nevada.

The figure was revealed at a meeting of the Southern Nevada Traffic Safety Committee, which meets every three months to discuss how to improve road safety

Sheriff Doug Gillespie from Clark County spoke at the meeting and said that both law enforcement and the courts must carry on enforcing traffic violations and that educating drivers on how to drive more safely was the key to preventing major crashes.

He said that the process needed to start before people learned to drive and that children should tell their parents if they have bad driving habits such texting on their phones when they are driving.

He said that in his opinion the youngsters of today were actually making better decisions than the older drivers as they have had more education on driving related issues such as driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

There has actually been a fall in the number of drunken driving arrests over the same time in 2013, by around a quarter and fatal accidents among drunk drivers are also down from 15 last year to 11 this year.

Trucker Sleep

It is part of the American culture to work as hard as you can, with people often being proud of the fact that they can get by on a small amount of sleep.

However, this is nothing to be proud of apparently as Dr. Mark Roseland of the National Transportation Safety Board has revealed, sleep is a vital part of overall health, in fact just as important as  food, water and air.

He states that if you do not get sufficient sleep, between seven and nine hours a night, your performance and judgment can become impaired meaning that you can be a danger to yourself and to those around you.

Dr. Roseland went on to say that it is not just one single night with less sleep which is a problem but the amount of sleep debt you have can mount up over time. Just one hour’s less sleep a night for a month means that you are 30 hours in debt and your performance will not return to optimum until that is made up. The good news is that you do not have to sleep for the full 30 hours as those with sleep debt sleep deeper.

Sleep is an essential part of living a healthy life. Getting enough sleep before getting behind the wheel is not just the right thing to do, but it is the law. If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious car accident involving a driver who was driving while drowsy, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.