Author Archives: Jay Butchko
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 »
At Fault Driver Gets Prison Sentence on Anniversary of Fatal Crash
The penalties for drunk driving in New Jersey are plenty punitive, even though DWI does not count as a criminal offense when the drunk driver does not cause an accident. When the drivers’ only mistake was to drive when their blood alcohol content (BAC) exceeded the legal limit, but they did not crash, the… Read More »
Six Vehicles Crash on the New Jersey Turnpike
How you feel about the New Jersey Turnpike depends on whether you live in New Jersey. If you are just passing through the Garden State on a multi-state road trip, then the New Jersey Turnpike is the best part of your journey. The rest stops offer predictable cleanliness and predictable architecture, like Buc-ee’s without… Read More »
New Jersey ATV Laws
In March 2026, a Springfield resident was riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on a public road in Union County when he crashed and his vehicle overturned. No other vehicles were involved in the collision. The ATV rider, a 31-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. ATV accidents like this one… Read More »