When people are tired or even exhausted, they are advised by those who promote safe travel not to drive for obvious reasons. When someone is in danger of falling asleep behind the wheel, their attention and focus both tend to drift. This creates a very dangerous situation even if that driver does not fall asleep. [...]
Continue reading...17. November 2011
Texas is like every other jurisdiction in the United States in that all drivers in the state are required to carry auto insurance in case they are involved in Texas car accidents. While this law can carry relatively stiff penalties if it is violated in terms of fines, these penalties are apparently not enough to [...]
Continue reading...15. November 2011
Drinking and driving is always a dangerous act, and anyone who decides to get behind the wheel of a vehicle after consuming alcohol is making a terrible decision. Unfortunately, when things go wrong in these situations, they can instantly turn to disaster. Tragically, this conduct is what police suspect in an alleged Palestine DUI accident [...]
Continue reading...11. November 2011
When the weather turns bad, drivers are expected to take the proper precautions in order to avoid Texas car accidents. Generally, bad weather should signal to a driver that he or she needs to slow down and proceed cautiously. Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong on Monday night that led to a two-vehicle Amarillo car accident. [...]
Continue reading...9. November 2011
When groups of students get together to travel somewhere to do good deeds, it should always be a heart-warming, feel-good story. Sadly, there are times when these situations wind up in tragedy, and that’s what has occurred recently when one student was killed and 15 other people were injured in an Abilene Christian bus accident [...]
Continue reading...8. November 2011
When we send our children off to school in the morning on a bus, we are offering an enormous amount of trust to a person who has been charged with getting those children to and from school safely. Unfortunately, when something goes wrong with a school bus, the situation can instantly turn to disaster. Fortunately, [...]
Continue reading...1. November 2011
When Texas hit-and-run accidents occur, our collective hearts tend to go out to those people who are injured and killed in these crashes and our hopes rise that the drivers involved in them will be identified and apprehended. This is particularly true of a San Marcos hit-and-run accident that occurred last week where a pregnant [...]
Continue reading...21. October 2011
When Texas car accidents occur, anyone who was nearby could ultimately be found responsible for the crash and as a result for the injuries that were incurred. However, a 2-year-old child would almost never be responsible for such an occurrence, and tragically it was a child of that age who was killed last weekend in [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2011
When people get behind the wheel of a vehicle and they begin the subconscious process of predicting the possible mistakes that other motorists will make, they tend to anticipate mistakes that are common. However, few if any people would ever anticipate someone attempting a U-turn when they are not at an intersection. Tragically, that appears [...]
Continue reading...30. September 2011
When drivers get behind the wheel of a vehicle, they owe those around them a legal duty of care. This duty basically states that anyone who drives a vehicle must avoid conduct that places others in situations of unreasonable risk of harm. This clearly includes passengers in the driver’s vehicle. Tragically, something went wrong last [...]
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23. November 2011
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