Author Archives: Jay Butchko
New Jersey’s New E-Bike Laws
It is easy to understand why electric bicycles, also known as e-bikes, are so popular in New Jersey. They are beneficial to the environment and to the physical and financial health of riders. E-bikes have an electric motor, so they do not cause pollution like motor vehicles that run on gasoline. Like ordinary bicycles,… Read More »
Collisions Between a Car and a Tree
Conventional wisdom holds that spending time near trees is beneficial to our health, while spending time in and near cars is dangerous. As much as you may fear animal attacks and lightning strikes, the chances of getting serious injuries when you walk in the park or in the forest are much lower than the… Read More »
Fatal Accidents on New Jersey Highways
People tend to worry the most about collisions during rush hour, when there is so much traffic that it is difficult to merge and, when you are in city traffic, to turn. The least busy hours can also be a time for devastating accidents. Less traffic often means more speed, and the darkest hours… Read More »
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 »