Trucks that are not loaded properly can pose a hazard to the person driving the vehicle as well as others sharing a Texas highway with it. A commercial vehicle that has a wide, heavy or lopsided load may be harder to control regardless of road conditions. It may also...
Traffic accidents are an unfortunate fact of life. At best, they represent a significant inconvenience. At worst, you can be severely injured or killed. And although an accident can seem to happen anywhere or anytime, there are some occasions which can be particularly...
It can seem like every day we hear a news report of a head-on collision that recently occurred. These are often the types of accidents in which there are serious injuries and deaths. Thousands of people across the U.S. are involved in these accidents each year. In...
According to the police, a man in Odessa, Texas, was killed in a car accident while trying to cross the street. Authorities claim that the man was hit by a car while trying to cross North Grandview Avenue. The case was initially announced on the local police...
The Texas Department of Transportation’s Mission Zero initiative, which the agency announced in May 2019, aims to cut traffic deaths in the Lone Star State in half by 2035 and eliminate them completely by 2050. Preliminary data from the Governors Highway Safety...
Nov. 9, 2000 was one of the most important days in recent Texas history. Today, almost nobody can even remember it. Two days after the election that put a Texas governor in the White House, the Y2K scare was almost a year in the past and the World Trade Center attack...
Whether you are traveling on Interstate 35 or another of the major thoroughfares in and around Austin, at any given moment, you are likely to be driving near one or more semitrucks. Should an accident occur, if a big rig is involved, injuries to occupants of passenger...
In 2015, distracted driving took the lives of 3,477 people. Distracted driving, which includes but isn't limited to texting behind the wheel, is so dangerous that it's been a point of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to get people the facts about it...
Texas parents may not realize that the period from Memorial Day through Labor Day is considered to be one of the most deadly periods of the year for inexperienced teenage drivers. As such, it's come to be known as the "100 Deadly Days of Summer." The spokesperson for...
While the rest of the nation is experiencing a decline or flat-lining of fatal pedestrian-vehicle accidents, the state of Texas has experienced a dramatic increase. The Texas Department of Transportation began keeping track of fatal pedestrian-auto accidents in 2010...
