Louis Lombardo does important work by watching out for timely news in the realm of traffic safety and sends out regular emails to keep others informed. If you would like to get his regular updates, you can sign up here: “Care for Crash Victims”
Here is information from the Home Page to let you know what it is about:
Introduction
This web site named “Care for Crash Victims” is a project of a small business public benefit enterprise, Louis V. Lombardo, LLC. The mission is to improve care for crash victims before, during, and after a crash. We are all crash victims — past, present, and future — as individuals, families, friends and society. All of us are impacted by crashes as consumers, insurance premium payers, and tax payers.
Vision
The vision is to advance the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of serious crash injuries. Currently in the U.S. each day nearly 100 people die of crash injuries — more than half die without transport to a medical treatment facility — and another estimated 400 people suffer serious injuries. U.S. DOT dollar values for preventing such losses currently amount to about $2 Billion each day.
Since 1978 in the U.S., more people have died and suffered serious crash injuries than died or were wounded in all wars since 1776.
This work continues 45 years of research, writing, and public interest advocacy described and documented to some extent on this web site — along with some key historic publications.
And here is a sample of Lou’s informative emails–from this morning . . . it touches, among other things, on the issue of “the nondisclosure of safety defects by a car company,”
– See more at: http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/no-accident-inside-gms-deadly-ignition-switch-scandal/#sthash.lTahNcLx.dpuf
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
The shocking history of discovery of countless tragedies – so far – is well described at http://www.atlantamagazine.
The latest legal maneuvers and the wrangling over money are reported by Automotive News. GM quote suggests the fix continues:
“In a statement, GM spokesman Jim Cain said the company believed the current plan “remains the best process to inform settlement value for the remaining cases.””
See http://www.autonews.com/
Imagine an image of a blindfolded Justice holding scales with lives on the lighter side and money on the heavier side with a tear coming out from under the blindfold.
