Many people in Reno, Nevada, have probably heard at least one warning about the obvious dangers of distracted driving. As smartphones and other technology become more and more prevalent, it has become increasingly important to remind motorists that one can simply not safely multi-task. Dialing or searching the internet for instance, while operating a motor […]

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A 67-year-old woman local resident has died after she was recently hit by a car. Police arrested the man who hit her and charged him with a serious drunk driving offense. It is, of course, never acceptable and always dangerous to drive while intoxicated. As our blog has discussed on many previous occasions, alcohol in even moderate […]

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This may seem like a rather obvious question since most Reno, Nevada, residents will assume that lack of sleep is what makes a trucker too fatigued to drive safely. Indeed, as the existence of the previously discussed federal rest rules only reinforce, commercial drivers need to make sure they get enough sleep to be able […]

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A previous post on this blog talked about how Nevada’s legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit remains at .08. But, one of our state’s neighbors has lowered the legal limit .05. It is the first state in the country to do so. We have talked about this on a previous post. First, .08 BAC is not […]

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A woman who was trying to cross the street in the south part of Reno has reportedly suffered a broken leg after a motorist struck her with his vehicle. The woman was crossing the street in a crosswalk in the early evening hours of a recent weeknight. It was after dark when the motorist drove […]

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