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Saturday Night Accident
There were three potentially serious overnight accidents in the Houston area Saturday night, keeping police very busy and serving as a reminder that accidents can happen at any time, and drivers should always be alert. The first Saturday night crash occurred at around 11 p.m., near the Buffalo Bayou, which is just east of…
Texas Drunk Driver Causes Three Accidents, Two Deaths in Houston
According to Houston Police, one drunken Texas man who chose to get behind the wheel after drinking too much last Sunday is responsible for at least three separate accidents over three hours, resulting in the deaths of two people, including a 6-year-old boy and multiple injuries to others, including a toddler. According to a…
Pickup Crashes into Texas Home
Late Wednesday night, March 18, three teenagers were injured when the pickup they were driving slammed into a home in The Colony, a community 30 miles north of Dallas late Wednesday. The accident occurred at a little before midnight near the intersection of Blair Oaks Drive and Merrell Lane, with the pickup stopping less than two yards…
Texas Truck – School Bus Accident May Have Been Caused by Distracted Driver
At about 5:15 p.m. Monday evening, an accident between a utility truck and a San Marcos CISD school bus sent more than a dozen people to a San Marcos, Texas hospital. This accident demonstrates just how important it is for a driver to stop when they see a school bus flashing its lights, and to avoid…
Children Killed and Injured in Two Texas Accidents
The information was delayed by several days, the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday announced that two children had died and several others were injured in a number of bad-weather-related accidents in and around Odessa, Texas in the last week. One accident occurred on Interstate 20 near mile marker 106, at around 4:30…
Distracted Driving Studies
While they are intended to reduce the problem of distracted driving, two just-released studies suggest that voice-activated dashboard systems and smartphones may actually worsen distracted driving. These two studies, by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah, paint a troubling picture. These types of systems are supposed to be designed…
July 23 Accident
A terrible Texas car-truck accident occurred last Wednesday evening, July 23, and took the life of an 18-year-old woman as she was on her way to Lufkin, where she was planning to stay with a cousin before beginning freshman orientation at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches Saturday morning. According to an accident report, the accident…
Summer Traffic Dangers
Summer began last week, and we all know that summer in Texas brings lots of traffic and very hot roadways, which means more hazards on the roadways. This past week gave us a preview of what this summer could hold for Texas drivers if we’re not careful. To begin the weekend, a fatal accident…
Dump Truck Accident Kills 1
Dump Truck Accident Kills 1: Wrong Way Driver Blamed U.S. 59 South in the Isleib area of Fort Bend County was closed for a while last Friday morning, after a wrong-way driver entered the southbound lanes of the highway and crashed into a dump truck. The crash not only resulted in the death of…
Fatal Accident Caused by Ice
Fatal Accident Caused by Ice This winter has been a difficult one for Texas drivers, as we’ve seen more than our share of Icy roads. One of the latest examples is a tragic one, in which a teenager was killed in the Denton area, after a storm that brought freezing rain and snow left…