The driver that rear ended me refuses to accept fault because the road was icy. What do I do?

You should contact a lawyer without delay to ensure that the other driver accepts his or her liability and that the involved insurance company pays for the costs associated with the accident.

As with any accident, the first matter of business is to always call the police or highway patrol (especially important if there are injuries), and ask that they complete an investigation and report. This investigation and subsequent report usually helps sort out later what happened in the accident. If you’ve been injured in the accident, seek medical help from an emergency room or your doctor. At that point, its important to talk to an attorney before dealing with the at-fault party’s insurance company.

Generally, regardless of the condition of the roadway, drivers must maintain and operate their vehicles given the existing conditions to avoid colliding with other motorists. Sliding on ice and striking your vehicle is a good indication that the driver was not maintaining a safe following distance and was traveling at a speed greater than appropriate given the existing conditions.

If you’ve been injured in a car accident, talk to an experienced Salt Lake City auto injury attorney today. For a free consultation, contact Craig Swapp & Associates at 1-800-404-9000 or online using our form to the right.

Will your child change his/her name someday? Do you know what they are posting online? Google CEO Eric Schmidt is predicting that in the future, people will be allowed to change their names upon entering adulthood in order to hide a childhood full of online social indiscretions. Says Schmidt, “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.”

It never hurts to pop in and check on your children’s online accounts and see what they are posting. Facebook is a prime site for stalkers. Pictures and personal information that get posted can provide predators with additional information about your child and family. Have you talked to your children about not “friending” people they don’t personally know? They should never invite people they don’t know to have a look at their personal life, and even among those they do know, they should exercise great caution about what they post online.

Schmidt also left us with a statement eerily reminiscent of Orwell’s novel “1984.” After stating that people want Google to play a bigger role in their lives and “tell them what they should be doing next,” he said, “we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are.” They also pretty much know where you live and if you’ve got an Android cell phone, probably where you are right now. With the internet and the amount of information that is stored online, we are all losing our privacy. It may be a good time for you to take a few minutes and teach your children about keeping as much of their privacy as they can. They may not have it for long, and a bad online decision can haunt them the rest of their lives…unless a name change is in their future…

Full Article at the WSJ

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U.S. News has published rankings for which states have the best/safest teen drivers. They’ve included Washington D.C. on the list and it happens to come out on top but only because it has less than 3,000 teen drivers.

First place went to California. Utah made the list at #9, Washington at #10, and Idaho at #45. Must be something in the water… Actually, Idaho allows teens to get their licenses as early as 14 which could account for a large part of this poor showing. All the states scoring higher (worse) than Idaho are big rural states (Iowa, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming) which may also allow for younger drivers to help out with the farming needs in their area.

http://www.usnews.com/news/teen-driving

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