Alameda Personal Injury Law Blog

It only takes a few seconds for a trip to the grocery store or even the doctor's office to end in a serious injury. One moment, you're hurrying along and the next, you're flat on your back, wincing in pain. While some people think that slip-and-fall accidents are funny, their reality is far more serious. People can break bones, hurt their spines or even suffer serious head and brain injuries in a slip-and-fall accident. Over a million people get hurt in slip-and-fall incidents each year. Sometimes, these people fail to report their accident, which can cause issues for them in the future.

Any slip-and-fall accident should get treated like a potentially serious injury. Even if you don't have any broken bones or serious bruises, you may have hit your head. If you lost consciousness, even for a second, or saw stars or feel a dull ache or a growing bump on your head, you should seek immediate medical care. Make sure the manager or owner of the business knows what happens before you leave, and then head straight to a doctor or urgent care center.

No matter how it might occur, a blow to the head is a much more dangerous thing that many people realize. One only needs to look to the recent controversy over the prevalence of head injuries in sports like football, boxing and hockey to understand that the threats are very real.

However, you don't have to play football or box to receive a blow to the head that could leave you with a brain injury. Many people receive brain injuries from blows to the head during car accidents — and in many cases, don't even remember that it happened!

You were driving down the road on a calm afternoon ride when a car pulled out and cut off your route. With no time to stop, you're left to dodge or hit the vehicle head-on. Tragically, this is a common type of accident for those on motorcycles.

Left-turn accidents like the one above, as well as other kinds, cause many accidents each year. What can you do to avoid them? Here are three tips.

Side-impact collisions, also known as side collisions or T-bone collisions, are dangerous accidents that take place when one vehicle hits the side of another head on. You know what they are: one vehicle is crushed in the front while the other takes the impact from the side.

What you might not know is that side crashes make up around a fourth of all passenger vehicle accidents involving a death in the United States. Why does a side-impact collision cause so much damage?