New Year’s Eve is a big night for drinking and driving, as party-goers try to drive themselves home, despite being over the legal limit. More responsible people will arrange for a designated driver, or plan to take a cab home. But if the night takes you to an...
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Month: December 2014
Hit-and-run bicycle accidents are going up in Los Angeles
First, the good news: The Los Angeles Times reports that hit-and-run car accidents in Los Angeles County have dropped by 30 percent from 2002 to 2012. Now the bad news: hit-and-runs involving bicycles have jumped 42 percent over that same time period. How could both...
Driver accused in mass pedestrian accident has history of DUI
California’s criminal justice system has many functions. One of them is to try to prevent dangerous people from harming others. The system is not perfect, and sometimes people with a record of putting the public in danger continue to do so, until innocent people...
Study touts drug as potential spinal cord injury treatment
We have spoken before in this blog about how announcements about scientific breakthroughs in spinal cord injury research tend to produce a lot of hype in the moment, but rarely seem to lead to real results for those living with such an injury. Still, a new study may...
Study sees link between teenage brain injury, drug use
Traumatic brain injuries such as concussions can affect the human brain in ways were are just beginning to understand. A new study suggests that, for teen TBI victims in California, it can lead to drug and alcohol abuse. Researchers examined data from an ongoing study...
