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GoLaw.com Accident attorney Mark A. Doughty practices personal injury law in the Northern California communities of Sacramento, Lincoln, Rocklin, Roseville, Marysville, and Yuba City, where he represents people in case of negligence or wrongful death arising out of automobile accidents, premises liability, products liability, and other injuries caused by negligent or wrongful conduct. As a Sacramento auto accident attorney, he has years of experience aggressively pursuing the needs of his clients. While working as a car accident attorney in Sacramento, @DoughtyLaw also successfully advocates in other motor vehicle accidents and personal injury law cases.
Mark A Doughty has been published in the Pacific Law Journal, worked as a Judicial Attorney for the Fifth District of the California Court of Appeals, and as a Past President of the Sutter Yuba Bar Association, has served as a Judge Pro Tem for the Yuba County Courts and as a founder of the Sutter Yuba Trial Attorneys Association
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GoLaw.com Personal Injury Lawyer Mark A Doughty fights for your rights. Speaking about his practice and work as an injury attorney in Sacramento, Mr. Doughty says: “I have found the practice of personal injury law very rewarding and important. I represent injury victims who can’t afford to hire an attorney. Their lives have been severely affected by the negligent acts of other in car crashes, truck collisions, animal attacks, and other injury-causing events. We work hard to take the hassle out of the process for our clients so that they can concentrate on getting better.” If you require a car accident attorney in Sacramento or have a need for a personal injury lawyer that will give you the personalized attention you deserve contact The Law Offices of Mark A. Doughty @DoughtyLaw today.
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Don’t be Indifferent to Highway Carnage
18 JanDon’t be Indifferent to Highway Carnage
As reported by a number of online news sources like the Sacramento Bee and FairWarning.com: “One of America’s more egregious public health afflictions: deaths and injuries in car crashes, is being massively ignored.”
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This commentary also published by:
TucsonSentinel.com
Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
Sources report that although there are “more than 30,000 deaths and more than 2.2 million crash injuries per year, highway safety has largely fallen off the political radar screen.” California Accident Injury Attorney Mark A Doughty reminds us “It is up to us to take care of ourselves and our families by staying prepared and placing safety first.”
“This should be a warning sign to the American people, since political leaders and their families, like the rest of us, are not immune from firsthand encounters with highway tragedies… President Obama’s father died in a car wreck in 1982. In 1972, Vice President (then U.S. Senator) Joseph Biden’s wife and infant child were killed in a car-truck collision. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, as a young Mormon missionary, was severely injured in a collision in France that killed another passenger. These experiences mirror those of millions of ordinary Americans, yet they have failed to prod the nation’s policy leaders into aggressive action to stem the carnage.”
For more Driving Safety Tips and advice on What To Do in Case of an Auto Accident, go to http://golaw.com/newsletters.
This BLOG was Prepared for you by Mark A. Doughty, attorney-at-law who practices solely in the area of injury and accidents including motor vehicle accidents, motorcycles, trucks, vicious animal attacks and slip and fall cases. You may contact Mr. Doughty by visiting his website at http://www.GoLaw.com or call 530-674-1440
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GoLaw.com WARNING: Drive carefully in Winter conditions!
29 Dec
This is a WARNING from http://GoLaw.com - Drive carefully in Winter conditions!
A friend sent me a link to this video below which clearly illustrates the dangers of driving on slick, frozen roads. If even an “Experienced Tow Truck Driver (now Seeking New Position)” can get caught unprepared, each of us need to be especially cautious while driving in Winter conditions such as rain, ice, black ice, and snow.
It appears that this video was shot in a foreign country, but that doesn’t mean these types of accidents can’t or won’t happen here in the United States. The Weather Channel’s BLOG titled “Driving Safety Tips: Driving in Snow and Ice” on Weather.com states “The best advice for driving in bad winter weather is not to drive at all, if you can avoid it. Don’t go out until the snow plows and sanding trucks have had a chance to do their work, and allow yourself extra time to reach your destination. If you must drive in snowy conditions, make sure your car is prepared (TIPS), and that you know how to handle road conditions.” In the NBCNews.com BLOG titled “10 Tips for Winter Driving”, author Mark Sedenquist (publisher of RoadTrip America) reminds drivers to SLOW DOWN and “reduce speed by 50 percent in snowy conditions.”
Remember: arriving to your destination safely is the most important thing of all.
This BLOG was Prepared for you by Mark A. Doughty, attorney-at-law who practices solely in the area of injury and accidents including motor vehicle accidents, motorcycles, trucks, vicious animal attacks and slip and fall cases. You may contact Mr. Doughty by visiting his website at http://www.GoLaw.com or call 530-674-1440
CA Attorney General Kamala D. Harris speaks at CAOC Keynote Lunch
14 NovCalifornia Attorney General Kamala D. Harris speaks at CAOC Keynote Lunch
By Mark A. Doughty, Esq. www.GoLaw.com
About the author: Mark A. Doughty has practiced personal injury and auto collision law in the Yuba City – Marysville, CA area since 1980. LIKE us online at http://facebook.com/DoughtyLaw or FOLLOW us at http://twitter.com/DoughtyLaw
November 9, 2012 – San Francisco, CA
Accident Injury Attorney Mark Doughty is in San Francisco, California at the 51st Annual CAOC Convention learning from some of the best attorneys in the world. Every year, continuing education “promotes new and better ways to represent our clients injured by the negligence of wrongdoers”, said Doughty. Among the speakers at this year’s conference is the Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris (Official Twitter @CalAGHarris).
According to the Consumer Attorneys of California website, CAOC “is a professional organization made up of nearly 3,000 attorneys who represent plaintiffs seeking accountability from those who do wrong. Among the consumers our attorney-members represent are:
• Those injured or killed by defective products or drugs.
• People who suffer discrimination because of age, gender, disability or race.
• Individuals injured or killed because of another’s negligent acts.
• Citizens whose civil rights have been violated.
• Workers who have been fired unjustly or injured on the job.
• Investors and others wronged by financial institutions.
• Those whose lives are undercut when insurance companies act in bad faith.
• Patients who have negligently been harmed instead of healed by the health care industry.
CAOC attorneys and their clients face opponents with far more power and access to resources: Big polluters, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers and banks. CAOC members take only those cases they view as worthy, invest their own resources in pushing those cases to court and are paid under the contingency fee system only if their clients achieve a successful result.”
This year, special guest speaker and California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris (Follow her Tweets @KamalaHarris) gave the Keynote speech at the Palace Hotel for Friday’s Luncheon. Introduced by Brian S. Kabateck of Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP and CAOC President Niall P. McCarthy of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP; Kamala Harris spoke about “The Role Of The Attorney General In Protecting Consumers”.
For more information, check out the links below:
CAOC 51st Annual Convention – http://caoc.org/12convention
CAOC history – https://www.caoc.org/index.cfm?pg=history
CAOC on Facebook – http://facebook.com/ConsumerAttorneys
Kamala Harris on Facebook – http://facebook.com/KamalaHarris
CAOC schedule of events – https://www.caoc.org/index.cfm?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=7397
This BLOG was Prepared for you by Mark A. Doughty, attorney-at-law who practices solely in the area of injury and accidents including motor vehicle accidents, motorcycles, trucks, vicious animal attacks and slip and fall cases. You may contact Mr. Doughty by visiting his website at http://www.GoLaw.com, LIKE us at http://facebook.com/DoughtyLaw, FOLLOW us at http://twitter.com/DoughtyLaw, or call 530-674-1440
Check out our GoLaw DoughtyLaw TUMBLR Blog
15 OctGoLaw.com and California Accident Injury Attorney Mark A Doughty invite you to check out our DoughtyLaw TUMBLR Blog!
TUMBLR allows us to post helpful articles with rich multimedia content.
Thanks for reading! We will continue to post legal news and updates here on our WordPress Blog, at our Google Blogger page, and at our website: GoLaw.com/newsletters
By Mark A. Doughty, Esq. www.GoLaw.com
About the author: Mark A. Doughty has practiced personal injury and auto collision law in the Northern California Sacramento Valley since 1980. LIKE us online at http://facebook.com/DoughtyLaw or FOLLOW us at http://twitter.com/DoughtyLaw
Defensive Driving to Avoid Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA’s) Part 2
30 SepDefensive Driving to Avoid Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA’s) – Part 2
By: Mark A. Doughty, Esq. www.GoLaw.com
About the author: Mark A. Doughty has practiced personal injury and auto collision law in the Northern California Sacramento Valley since 1980. LIKE us online at http://facebook.com/DoughtyLaw or FOLLOW us at http://twitter.com/DoughtyLaw
Driving Defensively: Driving techniques to avoid accidents and fines (Part 2)
Driving defensively is an important part of safety when it comes to road travel. Read Part 1 of the BLOG from last month here. Part 2 continues below:
Although travelers worry mostly about crime, inadequate driving skills pose the greatest danger while traveling on the road. North American traffic conditions dictate driving must be taken seriously. These tips can save your life!
1. Eye Movement. Be like pilots who are taught to Scan Constantly. Scan the road then rear mirror, then the road then side mirrors. Do not fix your eyes on any one point. Instead, your eyes should be constantly moving up and down the road, to the sides, and… SCAN.
2. Avoid last minute braking, read the brake lights 3-4 cars ahead.
3. Always leave yourself an out. At all times, try to place your vehicle where your safety is not determined by other drivers. You want to be in control of your safety on the road. This means you need a place to head if danger appears. When driving, this is called looking for “space cushions,” places where you can go in order to avoid collisions. When you have a space cushion, you have already avoided an accident.
4. If you must pass another car, do not linger next to another vehicle. You should rush to its front as soon as safely possible; especially when passing large trucks or busses. You do not want to follow too closely, especially if you cannot move to the right or left if the car in front of you slows suddenly. It is fascinating (and frightening) to observe the behavior of drivers on multi-lane highways as tend to bunch up and travel in packs. Therefore, avoid the packs. Don’t be part of the herd. Hang back. Or, if you want to pass, rush ahead of the group of vehicles as soon as possible, without going so fast that you get a ticket in the process.
5. Make sure the other driver sees you, and never assume another driver will do something unless you are certain he or she will do so. On freeways—where improper lane changes are one of the most frequent causes of serious accidents—and on two-lane roads, where vehicles going the other direction are frequently passing slower vehicles—USE YOUR HEADLIGHTS. Yes, turn your lights on. This helps other drivers notice you.
In fact, you may want to use your headlights in nearly all driving situations, as do many professional drivers. In some areas, especially in Canada, this is the law. Rain and fog, too, are a time for headlights, as well as twilight. Some drivers have a very ignorant and limited view of the role of headlights or a misguided desire to conserve power, as they delay turning on car lights in the evening as long as possible. “I can see just fine!” they foolishly say. But, how well others can see them is also vitally important!
Twilight is the time of most accidents. Drivers are tired after a day of activity. Some have stopped for an after work drink (or two or three) and have impaired focus. Others, anxious to get home, rush too quickly. Help these people to see you and to avoid you. Be among the last to turn off lights in the morning and among the first to turn them on in the evening—if not driving with lights on all the time. If another driver does not seem to have noticed you, and it looks as if he might hit you, blinking the headlights may help avoid an accident. And, moving the right foot off the accelerator to be ready to brake will speed reaction time, if your best reaction is not rushing ahead to avoid collision.
You should be particularly careful at intersections when a driver approaching from a side road or already stopped at a stop sign does not seem to be looking right or left for other traffic as you approach.
The horn, by the way, is nearly useless in most driving situations as other drivers are usually too far away to hear you or their music systems are too loud.
6. Rear end collisions can be prevented or made less serious. If you do not have time to rush ahead, repeatedly lightly (so as to not slow down) step on the brake pedal when another vehicle approaches too rapidly from behind. This causes your rear red lights to blink in warning. Do this over and over, when you suspect a car coming from behind may not have noticed you. The great danger, as mentioned above, are drivers who do not look far down the road as they drive. They miss seeing slower or stopped vehicles ahead of them until the last moment. Blinking the brake lights should attract attention of these faulty drivers, and allow them time to stop, or at least decease the impacts of the collisions.
7. Use your turn signals early and often. Using turn signals, too, lessens the chance of accidents. Turn signals attract the attention of other drivers. All too often, you see signals turned on at the same time as turns or lane changes are initiated, which is not safe (or legal) driving. Making a decision at the last moment shows clearly that a driver has not been paying attention. He or she is not driving defensively. These drivers are far more likely to injure themselves and others. Using signals is far more than a courtesy; it is a key safety technique.
8. Maintain average traffic speed on freeways. A vehicle going slower than other traffic sets up too many opportunities for collisions on high-speed highways. If a more relaxed driving pace is desired, use another type of road.
NO Stopping on freeways. Don’t be a stationary object or semi-stationary obstacle on a freeway.
Few things are more dangerous than when a car stops at the end of an entrance ramp because the driver misjudged the opportunities to enter traffic—or was just too timid. If your car breaks down on the road…pull as far to the right as possible, put the hood up to alert drivers and move all occupants to a safe position. Drivers often plow into the rear of cars parked along highways!
9. Respect the weather. Readers from cold areas know the importance of caution in icy or snowy conditions. The first rains of the season make the road very slick.
10. Stay Alert! Remember that your reaction time and driving skills deteriorate when tired or older.
The old adage that ample rest is the basis of dynamic, successful activity applies to driving as well as to every area of life. Driving without having had sufficient sleep is just as dangerous as driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Summary:
In summary, use common sense. Pay attention when driving. Look out for the other cars, be prepared and let the other driver win…That makes you the WINNER because you avoid accidents and injuries and you ARRIVE ALIVE!
Sources:
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/DefensiveDriving/Rule04.htm
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/DefensiveDriving/Drive-Safe-With-Uncle-Bob.htm
some direct quotes from http://Yahoo.com
This BLOG was Prepared for you by Mark A. Doughty, attorney-at-law who practices solely in the area of injury and accidents including motor vehicle accidents, motorcycles, trucks, vicious animal attacks and slip and fall cases. You may contact Mr. Doughty by visiting his website at http://www.GoLaw.com or call 530-674-1440
