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Sometimes, it isn’t an easy feat determining who’s at fault after an accident – it was raining, the impact happened so fast, you could’ve lost consciousness. Accusations might fly from both sides with conflicting witness statements only adding confusion to the mix. Police are reconstructing the accident scene, but that could take days of painstaking work. How can you know who’s at fault for the crash before the professionals do? By keeping these few, simple facts in mind when you’re trying to remember exactly what happened in the moments before the steel-grinding collision. (more…)

A motor vehicle crash is unpredictable. Impact exerts incredible force on the vehicles involved as well as the people sitting inside them. All good sense goes right out the window in the heady seconds following the wreck. Drivers and passengers alike could make key mistakes that either make it very difficult for police to determine who exactly caused the crash or give the insurance company plenty of bullets to deny their subsequent claims. Here are six things drivers and passengers shouldn’t do or at the very least avoid like a shopping mall on Sunday after a car accident. (more…)

For the first time in a decade, a bill (NJ bill no. 309) was put in front of the New Jersey State Senate this week proposes that the state place a ban on the construction of new jughandles from being built on any road, including highways.  State Senator James Holzapfel of the State Transportation Committee was one of the members who promoted the bill says that the turns do not serve as more convenient or safe option to prevent car accidents given modern levels of traffic. (more…)

Background of the New Jersey pet restraint bill

As we’ve covered extensively already, there is currently a proposed bill before the state lawmakers in New Jersey to require pets to be harnessed while in a vehicle. Proposed and introduced by Democratic Assemblywoman, L. Grace Spencer (E-Essex) of New Jersey, the bill, if passed into law, will necessitate cats and dogs to be harnessed while being transported in a passenger vehicle.  If it is passed into law, it may very well be the first law of its kind in the nation. The proposed bill states that dogs and cats must be restrained in some way that: (more…)

In New Jersey, drivers who want to remove points from the license or have to complete a sentence related to a traffic offense can take programs to lessen the amount of points on their license and save them insurance costs and the possibility of state surcharge fees. (more…)

There was an article that came out today citing the fact that police officers wrote 531 traffic tickets in 78 days on a small stretch of Route  534 in South Jersey.  The five cities included Glouchester Township, Lindenwold, Clementon, Berlin, and Pine Hill.  56 drivers were ticketed for driving with a suspended license and 53 drivers were given tickets for driving an unregistered vehicle.  Nine arrests were made for drug possession and other criminal traffic charges.  In addition, 109 drivers were let go with verbal warnings. (more…)

Beginning today, police across New Jersey will be increasing patrols and roadside stops in an effort to target drunk drivers.  More than $750k is being released by the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety to police departments across the state as part of the State’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Program”.  That program runs between today, Friday. August 17, and Monday, September 3.  The nationwide program was launched in 1999, and annually falls within the final weeks of summer.  The program also utilizes educational tools such as billboards and displays to help combat drunk driving.  There is also an awareness initiative for the state’s #77 program, which allows drivers to dial the number to report aggressive or impaired drivers on the road. (more…)

It looks like the New Jersey pet seat belt issue is rearing its ugly head again.  You might remember the mess that was created when the NJSPCA issued a statement referencing a long-ago passed New Jersey law regarding the transportation of livestock and the application of that statute to allow police to issue traffic tickets to drivers who have unrestrained pets riding in their cars.  The NJSPCA later backtracked on their statement and the tried to quell the public outcry confusion that ensued. (more…)

How are these two stories of the bizarre with a New Jersey tie? (more…)

In other news featuring New Jersey State Assemblymen this week, the Star Ledger is reporting this morning that Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon has hired private engineers from the National Motorists Association to test whether the newly calibrated red light cameras are functioning as promised. (more…)

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