A total of 6.39 million vehicles are being recalled by Toyota Motor Corp., a Japanese based car manufacturer. Roughly 30 models globally have been affected. As of right now, no incidents have been linked to this recall. It covers vehicles produced from April 2004 to August 2013 and specifically mentions 27 Toyota models including the…
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There are people all over the country, including our Texas readers, who have at least one child seat in their vehicle. Those using child safety seats believe the seats are safe for their children. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Evenflo Company Inc. is one of the largest names in the industry; however, the…
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As reported by KPRC, the fuel tanks of an 18-wheeler caught fire and exploded after the truck overturned on Highway 290 in Northwest Houston early Tuesday morning. The driver of the truck was killed in the fire, but a passenger in the sleeper car was able to escape with minor injuries. Investigators have not determined…
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Officials from Northwest Pipeline say that last week’s dramatic explosion at an East Washington storage facility was caused by a pressure vessel rupture. The Washington Post reports that the rupture occurred on a vessel that removes the carbon dioxide from the gas prior to liquefaction. Five people were hospitalized after the explosion, which occurred at…
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A Texas jury has decided that corporate giant Johnson & Johnson must pay $1.2 million to one of the victims who suffered serious injury because of the company’s defective vaginal-mesh implants. Those dangerous products, designed to treat incontinence and other maladies, reportedly injured women’s organs and caused her to experience pain during sex. This case…
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A recent interview on CNN focused on a young woman who was killed in a GM vehicle on her 29th birthday in Georgia. Brooke Melton’s parents hired a lawyer in Georgia to investigate the claim and their expert (not GM’s) found a .90 cent defective part that had been installed in her 2005 Chevy Cobalt….
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Alcohol. Truck Tractor. Running a Red Light. These three components reportedly produced a deadly collision in Houston. The crash occurred yesterday. The tractor was headed westbound in the 12,200 block of Beechnut at about 10:30 p.m. According to information from the Houston Police Department, the truck driver, Willie James Johnson, ran the red light when…
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Authorities reported that there was an explosion at a liquefied natural gas storage facility in Eastern Washington last Monday. Komo News reports that no one was killed despite 250-pound pieces of steel being thrown into the air. The explosion happened at the Williams Northwest Pipeline LNG storage facility near Plymouth, Washington. Five employees of the…
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