Monday and Tuesday morning were dangerous times to be travelling the Gulf Freeway this week. Two fatal motor vehicle accidents claimed four lives, three drivers and one passenger, on the Houston Interstate. On Monday morning, a wrong-way driver in a Chrysler 300 slammed head first into a small SUV driven by a man on his…
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UPDATE: As many as 73 people have been injured and one person was killed in the plant blast at Williams Olefins, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. As many as seven to twenty-five people may have been injured in a petrochemical plant explosion this morning that closed nearby roads and triggered a haz-mat…
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Many of us driving in vehicles often take for granted that they are well constructed. We just assume that because they are sold to us, especially at a high price, they must be reasonably safe and reliable. However, this is not always the case. On June 3, 2013 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)…
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The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that an owner of a pet who was negligently killed may not recover damages for the loss of the pet, other than the pet’s economic value. The decision came in the case of Strickland v. Medlen, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2013). In Strickland, a dog who had escaped his…
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At least 53 people have died in fatal fuel-fed fires that have occurred after a rear-end collision in certain Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty model years. The reason these collisions weren’t minor accidents but serious, catastrophic car collisions is a defective fuel system design that has the fuel tank exposed on the back end…
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The family of ten year old Luke Bresette is suing Stafford based Fish Construction, Inc., and eight other defendants after an airport sign in the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport crushed the boy, killing him. The Kansas native died after the three hundred pound arrival/departure sign toppled over on top of him and his family. In addition…
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Two major bus crashes occurred within a four-day span in April, leaving two people dead and more than four dozen injured. One crash, near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle and the bus struck a median, which caused it to overturn. The driver during this crash was…
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Broken down and waiting for help on a feeder road to the Sam Houston Parkway, a man sitting in his disabled Jeep was fatally injured when a tow truck rear-ended his vehicle. Initial reports say the man was to the far right of the road, but do not indicate if he was stalled in a…
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