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  • Chain-Reaction Car Accident? Read below ...   
    Description: Legal Issues Surrounding Multiple Vehicle Car Accidents
  • Winter Weather Conditions And Car Accidents | Maryland Car Accident Lawyer   
    Description: The rate of car accidents and car accident injuries goes up in the winter as bad weather makes for hazardous driving. In addition, drivers who do not often have to drive in snowy or icy weather may be more likely to have a car accident in such conditions.
  • Car Accident Hazard: Drunk Driving | Maryland, Virginia, And DC Car Accident Lawyers   
    Description: Drunk driving is the single largest preventable problem that causes car accidents in Virginia, Maryland, and DC, with 36 percent of all accidents in the area involving alcohol consumption and drunk driving. Learn more drunk driving statistics and four easy ways that you can help prevent future drunk driving injuries and deaths.
  • Dangers of Driving on the Capital Beltway & Washington DC   
    Description: The Inner Loop and Outer Loop of the Washington, DC Capital Beltway sees an average of 225,000 cars, trucks, and motorcycles each day. It is no wonder the eight-lane interstate is the backdrop of a large number of motor vehicle accidents, motor vehicle injuries, and motor vehicle fatalities.
  • Are Your Children Secure in Your Car?   
    Description: Lewis and Tompkins is a DC area injury law firm that is currently accepting cases involving people who have been injured in car accidents due to no fault of their own. We have years of experience in helping injury victims in the District, Maryland and Virginia receive fair compensation for their injuries, and we make it a point to help them get past the unnecessary delays and denials that are caused by insurance companies. If you or a loved one has been injured due to the actions of someone else, contact the DC area car accident law firm of Lewis and Tompkins for a free legal consultation today.
  • Doing The Right Thing After The Accident   
    Description: Lewis and Tompkins is an injury law firm that helps accident victims in D.C, Maryland and Virginia. We have years of experience and have helped many D.C. car accident victims get their lives back on track. If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident, contact Lewis and Tompkins for a free legal consultation today.
  • Cell Phone Bans are Unenforced and Ineffective   
    Description: A recent study shows that bans on cell phone use while driving are both ignored by the populace and unenforced by the police. As car accident attorneys in Washington, DC, we think thats very bad news.
  • Driver Safety is Important for Teens   
    Description: Teens are more likely to get into accidents than anyone else. It's a sad but simple fact. Here are some tips that can help improve the odds for your teenager.
  • Billion Dollar Corporation Learns Tough Lesson About Distracted Driving   
    Description: A representative of a billion dollar paper company was making business calls while driving 70 miles per hour. The results were sadly predictable.
  • "Optional" Car Safety   
    Description: Removing the "optional" safety features from a car can completely change it's level of safety.
  • 2007: Better for Drivers, Awful for Motorcyclists   
    Description: Motorcyclists took up an enormous percentage of Virginia traffic fatalities in 2007.
  • Insurance Adjusters: The First Hurdle is The Biggest   
    Description: Insurance adjusters are under standing orders to get you to settle for the smallest amount possible. Which usually means that you are getting thousands of dollars less than you really should.
  • Knowing Your Policy is Crucial   
    Description: Knowing all about your insurance policy can help you avoid unnecessary claim denials.
  • November Was Deadly for Area Teens   
    Description: November of 2007 saw a tragic increase in the amount of teen fatalities on the road.
  • Newest Driving Hazard: Texting   
    Description: People practically use the phone for texting more than talking. This isnt a problem until people text when they are behind the wheel.
  • There Are Safe Cars, and There Are American Cars   
    Description: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently put out a list of the safest cars of 2007. If you look closely, you'll notice that none of them are American made.
  • Cell Phones and Car Accidents in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia   
    Description: Cell phone useage and other distracting technologies are contributing to more and more car accidents, pedestrian accidents, trucking accidents and motorcycle accidents in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
  • Serving the Mayor of Washington D.C. [PDF]   
    Description: This document is the Mayor's authorization to serve the appropriate people when suing the D.C. Government.
  • Article by a Local Doctor Discussing Neck Injuries and "Whiplash." [PDF]   
    Description: Automobile accidents cause neck injuries and whiplash.
  • Have you been served a subpoena? Information on being a witness.   
    Description: Information for witnesses served with a subpoena in a personal injury case.
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