BEWARE, HOLIDAY SEASON MEANS MORE CAR ACCIDENTS
The holiday season brings with it more traffic, more drinking, more shopping and hence, many times, more car accidents. Not so surprisingly, car accidents, as a result of intoxicated drivers, dramatically increases during the holiday season and as a result so do catastrophic injuries and roadway fatalities. As a reminder, Pennsylvania law requires that all passengers be buckled up and that any small child be secured no matter what their seating position in the vehicle. Children from ages 0-4 must be in a child safety seat and children age 4-8 must be in a booster seat. It is highly recommended that all children under the age of 12 ride in the back seat of a vehicle with the proper seatbelt securing them.
The Philadelphia car accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily advise that drivers should also be careful in parking lots of shopping malls that will be filled with traffic and hurried and distracted shoppers often not paying attention.
Obviously, the holiday season leads to more drinking and driving and more fatal hit and run accidents where drunk drivers leave the scene.
As I have stated in earlier blogs, I advise you to make sure that your uninsured motorist protection is adequate. In Pennsylvania, there are all too many uninsured drivers on the road and if one of them hits you, all you can rely upon is your uninsured motorist coverage.
Please follow this holiday checklist.
- Review your insurance policy to make certain you have the proper coverage. If you have a question or concern please feel free to call the Philadelphia car accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily for a free, no obligation, insurance policy check-up.
- Always buckle up when driving.
- Do not drink and drive.
- Be careful in or around shopping malls and parking lots.
- Party Smart – if you’re with a party, make sure there is a designated driver and take away the keys of friends too drunk to drive.
This information is brought to you by the Philadelphia Car Accident Lawyer blog – a service of Reiff and Bily. We have been representing catastrophically injured people and the families of those killed in car accidents since 1979.
