Huntington WV Personal Injury Law Blog

Driving at night is a common activity that you and many others carry out. While you may feel confident in your driving abilities, you may want to remember that driving after dark presents more dangers for any driver than when driving during the day. Just the lack of visibility can cause a number of hazards.

Of course, you likely cannot limit your driving to daylight hours only, and you probably do not want to do that either. Still, you also do not want to end up causing an accident because you did not inform yourself of the risks of night driving and the ways that you could help yourself be safe while on the road after dark.

You look into your rearview mirror and see the vehicle behind you barreling toward you. Surely the driver will stop in time. Right? You may not be a good judge of speed, but it appears to you that the vehicle isn't slowing down.

You tap your brake lights in an attempt to alert the driver behind you that you are either slowing or stopped, but it doesn't seem to be working. You may have time to come to the realization that you have nowhere to go and that the vehicle behind you isn't going to stop. All you can do is brace for impact and hope for the best.

If you suffered injuries in a car accident in West Virginia, you know that you may not fully understand the true impact of your collision until days or weeks later. The full effect of your collision may not be immediately evident. In many cases, head injuries that did not seem serious ultimately end up being quite serious.

Head injuries are a common type of car accident injury, and the way they affect accident victims can vary on a case-by-case basis. The symptoms of a concussion can linger for weeks or months, affecting your ability to work, drive and live a normal life. It is dangerous to underestimate the serious nature of any type of head injury.

Single-car accidents take place relatively often. You may have seen your fair share of vehicles that have gone off the roadway, hit utility poles, crashed into guardrails or ended up in other forms of a crash without another vehicle involved. When these incidents occur, people commonly wonder what could have caused them.

A number of factors could contribute to a single-car crash, just as they could a multi-vehicle collision. Drivers could often avoid many of the most common contributors, but because individuals do not always practice the safest measures when behind the wheel, crashes occur regularly.