Author Archives: Jay Butchko
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 »
Two People Ejected From SUV After Rear End Collision
If you get injured in a car accident while you are visiting New Jersey, any legal actions related to your injuries must proceed through the courts of New Jersey, not in your home state. This might mean that a man and a woman from Baltimore who got into a collision on the New Jersey… Read More »
Laundromats and Premises Liability
No one ever said that laundromats were fun, but we tend to think of them as places of low-level discontent, rather than outright catastrophe. If you are at a laundromat, it means that you are so poor that you have to be fully dressed to do your laundry. The sounds of people playing games… Read More »
New Jersey Traffic Fatalities in April 2026
Given the length of time that you must wait on hold when you file an insurance claim after a car accident, it only makes sense that car accidents are common, but most of them do not result in severe bodily injuries. Car accidents that involve serious injury or death are more likely when the… Read More »
Trucks Are the Deadliest Ingredient in Multi-Vehicle Pileups
If you have ever driven in New Jersey, then there was probably a time when you were stuck in traffic because, somewhere up the road, there was an accident that involved three or more cars. Most of the time, these accidents are not catastrophic. Some lanes of traffic are blocked until tow trucks can… Read More »
Wrong Way Collisions Involving Drugs
Some controlled substances, no matter how dangerous, have a glamorous image. In the 90s, the media referred to rail thin models with stringy hair and dark eye makeup as “heroin chic,” despite that heroin had been the world’s most feared drug until crack cocaine gripped the public’s consciousness. Before the crack cocaine epidemic that… Read More »
Snow and Overpasses Are a Bad Combination
The winter in New Jersey is always a bummer in New Jersey, except for those first few fleeting moments when the snow is so fresh that it has not yet realized where it landed, before it takes on the grayish hue that characterizes the Garbage State for most of the year. This winter has… Read More »
Car Accidents in Whiteout Conditions
Everyone who went to driver’s ed in New Jersey knows the litany of admonitions about driving safely during or after a snowfall. Don’t drive unless you really need to. Clean your car thoroughly before you start driving, so that snow sliding down your front or back windshield does not distract you or obscure your… Read More »
Unfair Police Reports About Car Accidents
Police reports seem boring, but if you read them thoughtfully enough, they are as full of detail as a police procedural drama or action movie. The officer’s handwriting is approximately the midpoint between the illegible scrawl of a physician and the elegant pen strokes of a professional calligrapher. Ernest Hemingway would undoubtedly approve of… Read More »