Among other findings in the DPS report is that most bicycle collisions happened during the afternoon rush hours and that more than one half of the crashes involved bicyclists under the age of twenty five years old.

The Law Offices of Howard Sussman practices in the area of personal injury and represents injured bicyclists in collisions.  Our law offices are located in Minneapolis, Plymouth, Burnsville and St. Paul Minnesota.

Intoxbox is produced by the Eden Prarie based Walden Innovative Resources.  The machine is intended to allow customers pay two dollars to breathe into a disposable straw and provides them a result of their blood alcohol concentration.  According to Ryan Walden, the inventor of the Intoxobox, is to make customers aware of what their blood alcohol concentration is before they drive home.  In a recent interview Walden stated that, “You have a speedometer in your car to help you obey the speed limit, yet we’re expected to obey the drinking and driving laws without access to a tool that is supposed to help us obey the law.”

A recent Minnesota State Patrol survey determined that 58 percent of teen drivers involved in fatal vehicle accidents were not wearing seat belts and 66 percent of teen passengers killed in car accidents were not wearing seat belts.

The CDC study was published in conjunction with National Teen Driver Safety Week (October 17-23).   The CDC emphasizes that continuing youth education needs to be emphasized because one out of every three teen deaths involves motor vehicle accidents.  The “Parents Are the Key” campaign (http://www.cdc.gov/parentsarethekey) points to the role that parents play in protecting their children.

Studies have shown that approximately 48 percent of drivers text in states that do not ban driver texting.  Survey studies indicate that drivers in the age group o 18-24 year olds that 45 percent reported continue to text in states that have the ban.  Adrian Lund, president of the HLDI states that “If drivers were disregarding the bans, then the crash patterns should have remained steady.  So clearly drivers did respond the the bans somehow, and what they might have been dong was moving their phones down and out of sight when they texted, in recognition that what they were doing was illegal  This would exacerbate the risk of texting by taking drivers’ eyes further from the road and for a longer time.”

Timothy Rausch, 30, told authorities at the scene of the the deadly car crash that he swerved on County Road 17 to avoid a deer before hitting and killing Ryan DeZurik on August 16, 2009.  Rausch, and his passenger, Eugene Rivetts, were outside of the GMC Hummer before the investigating police officers arrived to investigate.

Rausch, who had no previous criminal record, had a blood alcohol level of .346 and was charged with vehicular homicide.   Rivetts has a lenghty criminal history and the Hummer was registered to this wife.

Rausch’s lawyer, Tim Beito, stated that blood and human tissue samples from the deployed airbag show that Rivetts was driving the Hummer at the time of the collision.  Rivetts has not been charged, but Assistant Stearns County Attorney Will Brost said that “We are engaged in conversations to get this resolved.”

According to Beito’s motion, a detective who obtained a search warrant “reveals that his own belief is that Eugene Rivetts, not Timothy Rausch, was the actual driver of the vehicle.”

Ryan DeZurik was driving home from his grocery store job in St. Cloud, just a few minutes from his home in Holdingford, when the Hummer rand over his 1990 Toyota Corolla and was instantly killed him. His mother, Sherrie DeZurik, said that she believed all along that Rivetts was driving.

“We’re willing to be patient and this confirms what we’ve already suspected,” she said.

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In the lawsuit dated July 24, 2009, filed in Los Angeles, Biller alleges that Toyota destroyed data showing that their vehicles had substandard roofs in over 300 accidents.  Other documents supposedly illegally withheld included emails and other computer saved information.

Biller worked for Toyota from 2003 to 2007 in a position that included defending the company in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits involving sport utility vehicles and trucks involved in rollover accidents.  Victims of these accidents believed that the problem was Toyota’s weak roof design and construction.  Since Biller’s lawsuit has been filed, Toyota has tried to keep the Complaint from public exposure because the allegations supposedly included confidential information that Biller agreed not to publish as part of his 2007 severance agreement.

Biller states in his lawsuit that he was harassed by Toyota employees both before and after he left his legal position at Toyota.  At the time he left Toyota, he received a severance payment of 3.7 million dollars and he agreed to not discuss internal Toyota information.  Toyota is claiming that Biller has violated this condition of his severance agreement and that his lawsuit is merely the baseless allegations of a disgruntled ex-employee.

Legal experts agree that if Toyota loses the Biller lawsuit, that it could result in past cases being re-opened that Toyota won or settled over the last two decades.