Author Archives: Andrew Finkelstein

For many truck drivers, the Northeast region sits as the final delivery point—the last stop on a journey that stretches hundreds of miles from where they picked up the load in Los Angeles or Houston. Drivers may already feel tired when they face the often-congested I-81 heading into the city. Once the I-81 project begins, -->

Heading home from work, class, or after a nice dinner out with friends in Syracuse, you never expect to get into an accident. Even if you’re traveling the treacherous I-81 and I-690 interchange, you never expect that you will be one of the cars involved in an accident. But sometimes, you have no control over -->

On average, 12,093 hospitalizations occur each year due to motor vehicle traffic-related injuries in New York. This is a scary number, and one that is even more terrifying if you happen to be one of the many victims who suffered an injury in a rear-end collision in Syracuse. Fortunately, there is room for optimism, as -->

New York State has one of the most antiquated wrongful death statutes in the nation. A bill currently pending before the legislature in Albany would fix the disparities and unjust outcomes the law has fostered in wrongful death cases for decades. It’s high time for that change to happen. Here’s why. An Unjust Law A -->

Syracuse drivers face high accident risks. In a state that sees a high volume of traffic, many drivers must contend with traffic jams, accidents that prevent them from moving safely on the roads, and a host of hazards that can slow them down or lead to increased danger on the roads. Syracuse also sees a -->

What to Do When an Angry Driver Injures You According to the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council, you can get just about anywhere in and around Syracuse in 20 minutes. In fact, once you get into Onondaga County, you will find that almost 94 percent of the roads are uncongested, which means that traffic flow is -->

Your actions after an Albany car accident can have a huge impact on the compensation you can recover. Most people, thankfully, will experience car accidents relatively rarely in their lives: The average driver will file an insurance claim only once every 17.9 years or so. As a result, once the adrenaline from an accident starts -->

Every year, thousands of traffic accidents in Albany and Its environs inflict pain, damage, and cost on crash victims and their loved ones. The toll of motor vehicle collisions represents a major public health, welfare, and economic issue in Albany, one we should all do our utmost to understand and mitigate as much as possible. -->

Whether driving on Central Avenue through downtown Albany or commuting from nearby Delmar or Westmere, you encounter speeding drivers every day. Unfortunately, speeding occurs so regularly that we often do not think about the dangers that come with it. However, speeding is so dangerous that it contributes to tens of thousands of accidents across the -->

Although there’s no such thing as a safe car accident, some accidents have greater destructive potential than others. The sideswipe is among the most dangerous accident types. It occurs when two cars (traveling either the same or opposite direction) brush up against one another with enough force to cause exterior damage. However, the initial crash -->

With a population of more than a million and people traveling from all over the world to visit the capitol district, Albany is an area very reliant on the amenities it provides to its residents and guests. Most of the products relied on in Albany were brought here by truck. Unfortunately, many of the drivers -->

Every weekday morning across the Capital Region, residents get into their cars and drive from Albany’s surrounding towns and villages into downtown for work. Every late afternoon, they take to the roads to make the reverse trip back home. The daily ebb and flow of commuters on Albany-area roads is as regular and predictable as -->

Drivers are involved in a wide range of collisions each day in and around Syracuse. Sometimes, collisions are minor crashes that result in minimal property damage and little or no injuries. Other times, however, those involved face serious, sometimes life-threatening injuries. In general, traffic accidents are preventable because most result from driver negligence. Certain driver -->

Reckless drivers endanger Albany drivers, passengers, and pedestrians every day. Reckless drivers may speed in heavy traffic on I-787, run red lights on Madison Ave, or make dangerous turns at the Broadway and State Street intersection. They may even text and drive on pedestrian- and cyclist-heavy roads that wind through the University at Albany campus. -->