Texting and Driving, Drinking and Driving, Speeding, Inattention....All causes of serious Missouri automobile accidents
We are Missouri automobile accident lawyers and counselors at law. As a St. Louis-based personal injury attorney, we see just about every cause of injury that you can imagine. However, there are few common acts that trigger the majority of serious car accidents in Missouri. Text messaging is a major problem with drivers, especially with today's youth behind the wheel. In fact, you may have recently seen the television ads that depict "final text messages" of a son or daughter before they were involved in a fatal car accident. The ads are very sad, yet very compelling. ITS NOT WORTH THE TEXT. Stop using your phone's keypad while you are behind the wheel.
Drinking and driving, especially during the holiday season, is a contributing factor to major car accidents throughout Missouri. Holiday parties can lead to drinking and driving. Also, serving alcohol at local bars and taverns, in excess of what customers should be consuming, can be recognized as equally reckless and negligent as the drunk drivers themselves. Commonly referred to as Missouri dram shop laws, our injury lawyers always investigate bars and restaurants that were patronized by a drunk driver prior to the car wreck.
Driver inattention is another deadly cause of car accidents, especially head-on car wrecks that take place on rural two-lane roads. Crossing over the centerline of the two-lane road can result in a high-speed impact that causes catastrophic injuries and even fatalities. These accidents can happen in the blink of an eye, as drivers coming the other way have little to no time to react to the inattentive driver.
The message here is this: Use the highest degree of care when driving your car in Missouri. Don't risk your life, and the lives of others, just to answer that text, have another drink, or daydream about other things.