Tag: Teen Drivers
‘Jerky’ driving by teen drivers increases accidents, study shows
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Thursday, March 1, 2012. A new study of newly licensed teen drivers confirms what many had suspected: that the "jerky way" they sometimes drive, with starts which are too fast, braking that may be hard to stop and many sharp…
Party bus accident kills teen
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Party buses can be a good way to get teens safely to and from social events, but an incident in New York points out the dangers those buses can pose to riders. A 16 year-old boy,…
Teens learn bad driving behaviors from parents
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Friday, September 21, 2012. Those crazy teenage drivers! Who taught them to do that? As it turns out, they learn most of those bad habits from mom and dad. A new study by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Students Against…
Mother charged in connection with daughter’s fatal crash
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Monday, October 1, 2012. A Navarre mother has to share some of the responsibility for her daughter's involvement in afatal automobile accident last May that killed a 77 year-old woman. Following a months-long investigation, the Florida Highway Patrol formally charged…
Government says fewer teens driving drunk
On behalf of Terence Gross of Gross & Schuster, P.A. posted in Drunk Driving on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Here is a sobering thought; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says at least one million teenagers drove drunk in 2001, many of them more than once. Safety experts say teens are three times more…