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After almost seven years, Raymond Marcinczyk’s law suit against the Somerset Police Academy, Raritan Valley Community College, Somerset County and academy administrators is still alive, and has now been ordered by the New Jersey Supreme Court to be reconsidered by the state’s Appellate Division. Marcinczyk was a recruit in the academy’s training program at the […]

People used to dream about this stuff. Now a large number of California drivers are looking out their windows and seeing in dramatic style a scientific vision made manifest on state roadways – robot cars. Google robot cars, to be precise. Seven of them, hitting the pavement from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. Over […]

In a recent letter to Governor Chris Christie concerning route 208, a New Jersey resident complained bitterly about the condition of roads in the state. “The sight is horrible,” the writer complained. “This is the ‘Garden State.’ At this exit, it looks like the ‘Dump State.’” So far this year, Bergen and Passaic county motorists […]

Fifteen-passenger vans have suffered years of scathing criticism from U.S. government and private safety groups for their propensity to lose stability when fully loaded and their high rate of rollovers when compared to other vehicles. They are now being similarly censured in Canada, with one woman – who lost a son when the Ford E-Series […]

The recent photograph of a Texas trucker walking on the shoulder of Route 80 near Elmwood Park as his rig is engulfed in flames behind him has garnered considerable press interest for something other than the spectacular truck explosion itself: the flip flops he is wearing. To many viewers, they seem decidedly flimsy and out […]

The following subject matter is certainly not something we would have readily envisioned writing about when we first began our blog posts. Given, though, that we seek to write about stories that are timely and relevant to our practice areas – as well as informative and useful to our audience – we follow a story […]

A motorcyclist who ran a red light, struck a car and was seriously injured in a DWI-related accident after leaving a Toms River restaurant in November 2006 with a blood-alcohol content nearly 2 ½ times over the New Jersey legal limit is now the central player in a case before the state’s Supreme Court. The […]

Even if the claim is bogus, the township of Mahwah will take it, convinced that the tag will encourage safe driving and reduce motor vehicle accidents. A driving-rights group, the National Motorists Association (“NMA”), has just labeled Mahwah the “worst speed trap” in New Jersey, although, in fact, hard numbers reveal that it doesn’t’ even […]

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”), approximately 18 percent of all drivers killed in car and other motor vehicle accidents across the United States last year – about 5,500 drivers – died because they were distracted by cell phones, portable computers, eating, personal grooming or other activities. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood […]

A quote from one of our previous car accident blogs, in which we discussed a notable trend of increasingly aggressive drivers in North Jersey, seems an eminently suitable introduction to this posting. “Civility and courtesy have left our roadways,” said August “Chip” Greiner, deputy director of the Bergen County Policy Office of Highway Safety. “More […]