Seattle is consistently listed in the top 10 of America’s Best Bicycling Cities by Bicycle Magazine. Cycling enthusiast, daily commuters, and casual riders alike dot the streets of our city…
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released its first ever list of top safety picks for teen drivers. Factors for inclusion on this list included safety ratings, limited…
HIPAA – the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – was signed into law in 1996. Important privacy protections under HIPAA include prohibitions against the sharing of patient information without…
A new study published in the Journal of Patient Safety reports that 440,000 people die every year due to preventable medical errors. The journal Health Affairs reports that one in…
According to TRIP, a national nonprofit transportation research group, 22 percent of the rural roads in Washington are dangerously unmaintained. This places the rural roads in our state as the…
Just after the celebrations on July 4th, a man jumped from a Chevy Tahoe north of Marysville causing a three-car accident. The 27-year-old man leaped from the Tahoe for unknown…
Studies have shown that sleep deprivation has a similar effect on the body as alcohol. This means that sleep deprivation decreases judgment and reaction time and increases the risk of…
In what seems to be a weekly occurrence, GM has announced a new recall for millions of vehicles due to ignition problems. The 3.36 million defective vehicles included in this…
In the state of Washington, all drivers are prohibited from using hand-held electronic devices while driving. This law includes both texting and talking, providing the talking requires holding the phone…
It is common knowledge that using a cellphone to type or text while driving significantly increases the risk of causing a car accident. However, according to the National Highway Traffic…
