Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Beware of Reversing on the Highway
Driving on the highway is both easier and more difficult than driving in city traffic. Ideally, you can maintain a consistent speed for long periods of time; this is why, if you have not yet switched to electric vehicles, your car gets more miles of gasoline to the gallon on the highway than it… Read More »
Woman Killed by Drugged Driver
In April 2026, a woman from Freehold was driving to work for a night shift. At about 11:00 p.m., as she drove on Route 9, a Volkswagen Jetta driving in the opposite direction bounced off of a guardrail and veered into her lane, striking her Honda head on. She was pronounced dead shortly after… Read More »
Rookie Mistakes Can Be Deadly
Everyone knows that novice drivers make mistakes, and these mistakes, from which new drivers quickly learn, often result in a vehicle colliding with another vehicle or stationary object. The parents of teen drivers hope that, by the time their children learn from their early driving mistakes, no one will have sustained severe injuries. In… Read More »
Holiday Weekend Accidents
Memorial Day weekend is one of the year’s biggest weekends for road trips. Therefore, the highways of New Jersey are always packed with cars, whether people are heading north to New York and points beyond it, south to Philadelphia, or east to beach destinations in New Jersey. Almost every year on Memorial Day weekend,… Read More »
Car Falls Into Hackensack River
Chain reaction collisions are one of the known hazards of driving on the highway. Since they only happen in heavy traffic, many of them involve vehicles traveling at low speed. Likewise, there are no intersections on the highway, so unless a car crosses the median, all the cars are going in the same direction,… Read More »
Chronic Pain and Your Car Accident Claim
Children often notice that adults are, in general, grumpier than folks who are too young for a driver’s license. Even the most fun, kind-hearted, and playful adults in your life sometimes have inexplicable bad moods. Then there are the adults who are permanently grumpy, so grumpy that other adults warn you about them before… Read More »
Understanding Noneconomic Damages in New Jersey Personal Injury Lawsuits
Attention-grabbing headlines in newspapers have been around since before websites started publishing news online. They were the closest thing to clickbait before clicking became a means of accessing the news. Some of these headlines tell of courts awarding millions of dollars to plaintiffs in personal injury cases. You might think that an award of… Read More »
Common Causes of Motorcycle Accidents
Some people look forward to summer in its capacity as family road trip season, but you are over it. The idea of getting stuck in traffic for hours with your family, with your children whining and your spouse and in-laws enumerating your faults as your car fills up with more trash than you knew… Read More »
Product Recall After Reusable Drink Bottles Cause Injury
Kids love summer because of the summer fun that inevitably ensues, but worry warts dread it because of the rare but horrific instances of the worst-case scenario. They wonder how they survived their youth, when summer time meant helmet-less rides on bicycles through streets open to vehicular traffic, when there was no way to… Read More »
Distracted Driving Isn’t Just About Phones
We live in a world of distractions. The trouble is that some distractions are annoying, while others are fun. We tend to use the fun distractions to calm down from the frustrations caused by the annoying distractions. You have probably heard those alarming studies about how the average worker is only productive for about… Read More »