{"id":122,"date":"2012-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/boorish-behavior-speeding-infractions-and-fatal-car-accidents\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:11:09","slug":"boorish-behavior-speeding-infractions-and-fatal-car-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/boorish-behavior-speeding-infractions-and-fatal-car-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Boorish Behavior, Speeding Infractions and Fatal Car Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/firm-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Firm News<\/a> | April 4, 2012<\/p>\n<p>When Indiana passed a law aimed at aggressive driving, it became the first state to do so since 2005. It joined 10 other states in attempting to reduce fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/chicago-car-accident-lawyer\/\">car accidents<\/a> by punishing aggressive drivers. The Governors Highway Safety Association recently released a report highlighting the dangers of speeding and aggressive driving. Roughly one out of every three deadly traffic accidents is caused by speeding. More than 10,000 people were killed in 2010 as a result of speeding. It is hoped that the report will help spur greater efforts to stop dangerous driving practices that have become commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>Aggressive driving is easy to spot, but not necessarily easy to define. The Indiana law focuses on behaviors such as tailgating, unsafe stopping, failing to yield and speeding. If a driver commits three of the nine elements used to define aggressive driving during one driving session, that driver can be charged with aggressive driving.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/boorish-behavior-speeding-infractions-and-fatal-car-accidents\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Boorish Behavior, Speeding Infractions and Fatal Car Accidents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm News | April 4, 2012 When Indiana passed a law aimed at aggressive driving, it became the first state to do so since 2005. It joined 10 other states in attempting to reduce fatal car accidents by punishing aggressive drivers. 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