by Ken Christensen | Feb 4, 2013 | Texting While Driving
Last week, 18-year-old Keri Houston was pinned between her parked car and an oncoming vehicle. Witnesses Jason Hollobaugh and Robert Stoney ran out to help after hearing sounds from the crash and the victim’s screams. Stoney said, “Her leg was all but...
by Ken Christensen | Jan 21, 2013 | Car Accidents, Texting While Driving, Wrongful Death
In Vernal Utah, the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash, filed a wrongful death suit. The case was filed against Jeffrey Lloyd Bascom, the man whom police say crashed his car because he was texting, killing the 15-year-old pedestrian. On...
by Ken Christensen | Sep 19, 2012 | Texting While Driving
Today is AT&T’s Don’t Text and Drive Pledge Day in Utah, and with the frequency with which these accidents are occurring, the importance of adhering to a ‘no text and drive’ policy cannot be stressed enough. Perhaps some of you have seen commercials or YouTube...
by Ken Christensen | Jun 7, 2012 | Auto Accident Attorney, Texting While Driving
Statistics from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal that a majority of high school seniors are texting and driving. The report claims that in a national survey administered last year, 58% of high school seniors admitted to texting or e-mailing...
by Ken Christensen | May 3, 2012 | Texting While Driving
One of the greatest dangers facing us on our roadways today is distracted driving. Despite the enactment of laws in nearly every state to discourage and eliminate this unsafe practice, people continue to do it and as a result people continue to get hurt or die as a...
by Ken Christensen | Mar 9, 2012 | Texting While Driving
According to KSL, the parents of a Utah State University college student, who had passed away as a result of texting while driving, appeared on the Today show in support of changing Idaho’s stance on texting while driving. Currently there are only 35 states...
