Car & Truck Accidents Articles

Cars and pedestrians often have to share a roadway. Unfortunately, these interactions have catastrophic results when vehicles and pedestrians collide. It is important that both drivers and pedestrians are aware of each other and carefully share the road. A federal agency is preparing to help cities prevent accidents between cars and pedestrians. For Houston residents,…

Accidents that involve cars and pedestrians often have dire outcomes. A person who is struck by a car has no protection; therefore injuries from these types of accidents are often severe, and in the most tragic cases, fatal. Our Houston readers may be interested in the outcome of a plea deal that stemmed from an…

The American Association for Justice recently issued a report showing that accidents involving big-rig trucks have increased, including those that caused death or serious bodily harm. In 2011, 3,757 people nationwide died in accidents with trucks, and Texas had the highest number of deaths at 381. Trucks currently represent 4.7% of all vehicles on the…

Production of oil and gas is not the only thing on the rise in South Texas. According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), fatal traffic wrecks have increased by 40 percent since last year in the Eagle Ford Shale region, a 20,000 square-mile area that runs from the Mexican border across 20 counties in…

According to the New York Times, Ford has announced it will recall about 33,000 2013 C-Max models after tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found the cars did not meet the minimum federal safety standards for head protection in a crash. The vehicles affected by the recall were built in Wayne, Mich.,…

A fatal rollover crash on Highway 146 in Mont Belvieu seriously injured five people and killed a sixth earlier this week. Initial reports from the crash scene noted that there were several children involved in the fatal rollover crash, but no details were released as to how many or the extent of their injuries. The…

A Clear Lake family vacationing in the northeast suffered a fatal crash while traveling to Boston, Massachusetts. Their van traveled into a grassy highway median, then returned to the roadway and rolled several times before stopping in the middle of the Thruway on I-90. Houston mother Jennifer Hodson was driving the van at the time…

Four people were killed in a fatal Texas wreck in which the teen driver had a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.24 – or three times the legal limit for adults in Texas. He was driving a truck with seven other teens when he crashed into a disabled SUV and three people who had stopped to…