Car & Truck Accidents Articles

Just this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officially announced a recall that will affect approximately 250,000 vehicles. The recall stems from a defect in the driver’s door module that allows water to come into contact with the circuit board. If the circuit board is compromised with water and shorts out, the power…

According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, British Petroleum has received nearly 6,500 claims from motorists trying to recoup hundreds of dollars they spent for car repairs after receiving contaminated BP gasoline. BP has received nearly 19,000 inquiries from motorists. The company last week recalled 2.1 million gallons of gasoline from its Whiting,…

According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, elderly drivers are no more likely to die in a car accident than drivers in their twenties. Researchers at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom examined UK police records on all fatal road accidents reported between 1989 and 2009….

Texting while driving is becoming one of the most common and deadly distractions while driving, especially among teens. One in four American teen drivers admit to texting while driving, and 40 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds say they have been in a car where a teen driver used a cell phone in a dangerous way….

It seems hard to believe, especially after one of the worst recessions in decades, that there would be a shortage of workers in any industry. But that is exactly the case in the trucking industry. Despite the unemployment rate still hovering around 8 percent, there are roughly 200,000 truck driver jobs available throughout the nation….

The family of Kylie Doniak, a University of Texas soccer player, has filed a lawsuit against Yassine Enterprises for over-serving a hit-and-run suspect in Austin, Texas. The lawsuit alleges that Yassine’s bars Fuel and Vice, over-served 22-year-old Nicholas Ray Colunga. According to the lawsuit, Colunga arrived at Fuel at about 11:30 p.m. on February 2,…

Road construction, distracted drivers and pedestrians and enraged drivers are all a part of the hazards that motorists face every day. In Houston, road rage is contributing to a large number of car accidents, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Crash statistics suggest that road rage played a role in more than 900 car…