Month: January 2015

The victims and their families are suing the organizers of the South by Southwest festival claiming that the deadly accident in 2014 could have been prevented. Four people (Jamie West, De ‘Andre Tatum, Steven Craenmehr and Sandy Le) died. The suits were filed by four firms on behalf of eight victims. The lawsuit filed on…

For the fifth straight legislative session, Texas lawmakers will consider bills proposing a state wide ban on texting while driving. At least that is what is being reported across the state in the local and regional publications. There is more momentum than ever to get it passed, but a difference of opinion among the state’s…

Two people are in critical condition, and a passenger was killed, in yet another “wrong way” collision on area highways. This is the third in a week. The crash occurred early Sunday morning, about 4:00 a.m. The driver of a Suburban headed west near Baytown in the eastbound traffic lanes. Several motorists called police, but…

Houston is not known to be a bike-friendly town, a problem that has continued to grow along with the city’s population as the roads get more crowded. Despite increased attention to the issue, reports of cyclists being killed and seriously injured by reckless drivers have become all too frequent in recent years. Unfortunately, a recent…

According to a recent report by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Harris County roadways accounted for 394 roadway fatalities in 2014, with 169 believed to be alcohol related. Both of those numbers outpaced all other Texas counties by a wide margin. By comparison, roadways in Dallas County, with 2.4 million residents, saw 223 total…

The new head of the U.S. Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently stated that recent attention on defective automobiles will likely result in over 60 million vehicles being recalled in 2015. NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind told reporters that the agency has made it a top priority to improve the way it tracks potentially defective vehicles….

A deadly freeway pile up of 150 vehicles occurred this past week in Michigan. The pile up occurred along a snowy section of Interstate-94 between Battle Creek and Galesburg, Michigan early Friday morning. According to authorities, the initial crash was small involving only a few vehicles in the eastbound lanes of traffic. The situation quickly…

Eight-year-old Abdallah Khader of Arlington, Texas, died last Sunday morning. Abdallah had been in a near vegetative state for nearly six years since being brain damaged in a 2009 crash with a drunk driver, nearly brain-dead, strapped to a chair, and frequently suffering from pneumonia which necessitated the use of oxygen. The immediate cause of…