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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…

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…

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…

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…

It has been in the news that one of Nevada’s neighbors will lower the so-called legal limit with respect to their drunk driving laws. Starting in the next day or two, a person in this state who gets pulled over with .05 blood alcohol content or more will face criminal drunk driving penalties. In Nevada, the legal…

With the winter months setting in over the mountains of Reno and the rest of Washoe County, motorists in the area need to start thinking about the possibility of snow and ice on the roads, as well as other winter weather like dense fog. In fact, the area has already had at least some issues with winter…

The attorneys at our Reno, Nevada, law office recognize acutely how important it is to make sure that a victim of a spinal cord injury gets compensation for all of his losses and expenses. Not getting full compensation for spinal cord injuries can, after all, mean that a victim years or even decades down the road finds…

Carson City crash leaves 2 injured On Behalf of Bradley, Drendel & Jeanney • Dec 09, 2013 car accident Source:

As Reno residents can probably guess, handling a truck or other large commercial vehicle is a tough task. This is why commercial drivers have to get a special license that entails extra training and other legal hoops that those who are just driving ordinary passenger cars do not usually have to worry about. Getting a…

A severe accident in the Reno area left three people dead and at least one person seriously injured. Police are now reporting that drugs or alcohol may have played a role in the crash. The accident actually involved two separate collisions that happened a few minutes apart from each other. The road on which this accident happened…