As Jennifer Hiller reports for San Antonio Express-News, another fatal truck wreck happened on Sunday, ending the life of a 26-year-old oil tanker driver. The driver of a second oil tanker failed to yield on Texas 16. This is the latest wreck in August. In July, an...
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The Lost Art of the Turn Signal: Why Drivers Don’t Care, but Should
This is a guest post by the personal injury trial attorneys of Console & Hollawell in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Turn signals prevent auto accidents, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the data to back up the claim. A 2009 study...
Accident Involving 18-Wheeler ‘Shears off’ 26-Year-Old Woman’s Brain
Brandi Grissom, writing for the Texas Tribune, describes the life of 26-year-old Michelle Gaines, whose mental capacity (after getting hit by an 18-wheeler in 2006) was reduced to the level of a 12-year-old. It almost goes without saying that Gaines was quite a...
Dog Owner Claims Dogs ‘Don’t Bite’ After Dogs Bite Cyclist
As Joe Kemp reports for the NY Daily News, a cyclist's regular ride through Central Park took a turn for the worse when two dogs came upon him. The 54-year-old was pedaling through the park in the late July morning when the off-leash animals attacked, biting his legs...
Not Enough Truck Drivers to Man the 18-Wheelers
By some accounts, federal regulations that require the publication of truck driver safety records - a record that might detail drug use, for instance - might be one major factor having an impact on hiring in the trucking industry. As Matt Olberding reports for the...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Suggests Mistake of ‘Ignorance’ Contributes to Patient Deaths
Sanjay Gupta, writing an opinion piece in the New York Times, suggests reasons why so many medical mistakes are said to occur in the nation. Gupta cites an estimate of roughly 200,000 patient deaths from medical mistakes every year, which would make it one of the...
Texas DPS Finds Tire Problem in Goliad County Pickup Truck Accident
As Christopher Sherman reports for the Associated Press, the Texas Department of Public Safety has been engaged in an ongoing investigation of the recent single-vehicle truck accident in Goliad County in South Texas that resulted in the deaths of 14 people. And...
Deadly Accident Involving Three 18-Wheelers near Tilden, Texas
Around 10 a.m. on Monday morning this week, three 18-wheelers hauling cargo for the oil and gas industry (gravel and water for hydrofracking well sites) crashed into each other on State Highway 72, resulting in the deaths of two of the truckers and serious...
CDC Says 4.5 Million People Suffer Dog Bites Every Year
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, millions of people are bitten every year by dogs. And as Ted Griggs writes for the Advocate, more than 800,000 of those people suffer dog bites severe enough to prompt them to seek medical treatment. Dog...
Tanker truck hits and kills three people northeast of San Antonio
As Marvin Hurst reports for KENS 5 News, what would have been a relatively minor accident after a wrong-way driver hit a family in an SUV, turned into a deadly three-person oil tanker crash involving what appears to be distracted or inattentive driving. The accident...
