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The term road rage was coined 30 years ago by a Los Angeles television station, but aggressive, angry behavior by drivers has been around in some form since the invention of the automobile. Road rage is widespread. According to a 2016 poll conducted by AAA, nearly 80 percent of drivers have reported experiencing aggression behind the...

Last year, the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), citing federal statistics, issued an update of a comprehensive 2015 report saying that 43 percent of drivers tested in fatal crashes in 2015 had used a legal or illegal drug, higher than the 37 percent that tested above the legal limit for alcohol. The report came as...

With all of the safety equipment available in today’s motor vehicles, from passenger sensing systems designed to protect small children to automatic emergency braking for preventing accidents, you would think that the number of Americans dying on our roadways would see a steep decline. You’d be wrong. Traffic fatalities are higher than you think The...

AAA recently conducted a study of more than 3,500 participants that examined the effects of drowsy driving in auto accidents. This study, which was part of the federally funded Second Strategic Highway Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study (SHRP 2NDS), closely examined drivers through the use of in-vehicle cameras over the course of several months. The...

Black ice is an inevitable part of winter driving Snow and ice can make our New Hampshire roads treacherous in the wintertime. While we all know to reduce our speed during winter weather, accidents can happen when we don't plan accordingly. Black ice is water that has frozen clear on the road or other surface. While...

Every year more than 3000 fatalities occur as a result of distracted drivers, and that number continues to rise. With smartphones, GPS systems and other features included in infotainment systems, there are far more distractions for drivers on the road now than there were decades ago. However, it is not only these high-tech devices that...

Dangers of Wrong-Way Driving The Boston Globe reported on an accident in Nashua in April in which three people were treated for life-threatening injuries after a crash involving a vehicle going the wrong way on the F. E. Everett Turnpike. In September, Seacoast Online reported on a motorcyclist on the northbound interchange ramp of Route...

In recent years, the growing opioid epidemic has received significant media attention in New Hampshire and nationwide. It's a growing public health crisis, and not just because of the health risks associated with opioid use in and of itself. Driving under the influence of opioids is also extremely dangerous and has been linked to a...

DWI Attorney John Durkin recently filed a lawsuit under the New Hampshire Right to Know Law seeking a list of police officers who failed the Intoxilyzer Recertification exam since 2013, but who were erroneously recertified. The following is more information from attorney Durkin and news articles in which he was quoted regarding this issue. We'll...