Car & Truck Accidents Articles

On Thursday, December 20, 2012, General Motors announced that the company is recalling more than 145,000 pickup trucks due to a defect in the truck hoods which could cause hoods to fly open unexpectedly. GM informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that if the hoods were to open unexpectedly, blocking a driver’s forward vision,…

A late night rollover on Eastex Freeway took the life of four young Texans and critically injured another. The driver of the blue Ford pickup truck hit a curb and sent the truck rolling, causing the fatal accident. Three of the young men, estimated to be in their teens or early twenties by police, died…

According to the Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently tested a group of new family sedans, including the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Ford Fusion. The Toyota Camry performed poorly in the new crash test and failed to get the best safety rating from the auto safety group….

Five people were injured and one killed in a four-vehicle pileup in Northwest Houston over the weekend. A driver was stopped in the roadway on I-45 North with a flat tire when another driver slammed into the rear end of his disabled vehicle. The rear-end crash triggered a chain-reaction collision involving two more vehicles. At…

As reported by the LA Times last week, Honda is recalling more than 800,000 minivans and sport utility vehicles in the United States for a problem with the vehicles’ ignition system, and this is not the first time for similar issues with Honda vehicles to be reported. The company, which has its North American headquarters…

On Monday, Carolyn Beck, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC), confirmed that the TABC is investigating a nightclub where Dallas Cowboys football players may have been drinking before the one-vehicle car accident in which Cowboys player Jerry Brown Jr. died. The accident occurred early Saturday morning when a vehicle in which Brown…

In another safety related recall, Ford Motor Company is recalling over 73,000 Ford Escape compact sport-utility vehicles, as well as over 15,000 Ford Fusion midsize sedans. This recall involves the 2013 model year and it is reported that these vehicles can have overheating problems that causes engine fires. This recall closely follows Ford’s recall of…

After a shuttle bus crashed into Houston’s Texas Medical Center last week, police announced that the accident may have happened because the driver suffered a “medical episode.” One woman died and 11 other people suffered injuries, raising questions about who bears liability when a medical problem plays a role in a crash. Houston police officials…