Vermont Auto Collision and Personal Injury Blog

Distracted driving is one of the most serious safety issues on Vermont’s roadways.  Distracted driving is any activity that diverts attention away from the primary task of driving. Beginning in 2014, Vermont banned the use of all handheld electronic devices while...

The Lamoille Valley Rail Trail is complete from Morrisville to Cambridge Junction.  It has been very popular for summer activities such as biking, walking and running, but is also popular for non-motorized users in the winter.  While the trail is open to snowmobiles...

Senior citizens are more vulnerable to phone scams than younger Vermonters.  A recent article in AARP magazine highlights how scammers are successfully using fear as the motivating factor to scam people.  They quote a social psychologist in the article who states...

It seems like virtually every motor vehicle manufacturer has recalls these days.  It is estimated that approximately 30% of all vehicle owners don’t take care of recalls.  It can be a major nuisance, but it is something that you should deal with as quickly as possible...

Vermont is a rural state and the majority of the state is still forested. While significant portions of Vermont are public land, the majority is still owned by private individuals and corporations. The Vermont Legislature decided years ago that it wanted to encourage...

The Vermont Attorney General’s office periodically issues fraud warnings to attorneys and others and asks that the warnings be shared with as many people as possible. Here is a recent warning from the Vermont Attorney General’s office: Scammers are posing as Medicare...

It was surprising to me, but I discovered that there are many motor vehicle crashes that occur as a result of Christmas trees falling off of or out of vehicles during trips the trip home after buying the tree. According to the Automobile Association of America (AAA),...

Dangerous road conditions contribute to the increased likelihood of a serious motor vehicle crash. One of the reasons for this in rural Vermont is that many of our roads were designed and built before the automobile age began more than 100 years ago. Some of our Class...

Vermont Route 15 from the roundabout in Hyde Park to the roundabout in Morrisville located at the northern end of the VT Route 100 Bypass around Morrisville is a particularly dangerous stretch of road. There is a lot of traffic because both State of Vermont Route 15...

While Ernie Patnoe may disagree with this assessment, he became internationally famous with the publication of an article in The New Yorker entitled “Black Ice, Near-Death, and Transcendence on I-91” written by John Seabrook, a staff writer for The New Yorker since...