When a person goes to pick out a new car, they have many safety options to choose from. These options don't come standard on many vehicles, but could help prevent serious car accidents. Backup cameras, backup sensors, lane-departure warning and prevention systems, and...
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Month: September 2013
Fatal truck accident leads to investigation, out-of-service order
The gap between passing a law and enforcing it is often challenging. For example, passing a law against texting while driving is one thing. But actually enforcing it is quite another. Similarly, the lengthy debate about new hours-of-service (HOS) rules for truckers...
Study links new sleeping pill use with greater collision risk
Researchers conducted a study on sleeping pill use and crash risk, and they determined that new users may be more likely to wreck than non-users. It is estimated that between 50 and 70 million people in Texas and throughout the U.S. suffer from sleep deprivation or...
Training for entry-level truckers: the federal rule process
The process of creating a mandatory federal rule can be an exhausting one. In the field of truck safety, we have seen this time and again regarding rules such as hours-of-service (HOS) limitations for drivers. The fight over HOS limitations went on for so long that it...
Truckers and sleep disorders: proposal calls for formal rules
Research on sleep, and sleep disorders in particular, has exploded in recent years. Scientists are finding out more all the time about what affects sleep. And yet there remain many aspects of how and why people sleep - or don't sleep - that remain deeply mysterious....
1 killed, 2 injured in car accident north of San Antonio
Two people were injured and another person was killed in a crash last Friday on State Highway 16. The car accident happened north of San Antonio when a car that was driving north crossed the centerline and hit a southbound car. The two people that were injured had to...
Truck accident fatalities and vehicle size
The term "truck accidents" is by no means synonymous with large semi-trailers or 18-wheelers. To be sure, big rigs are responsible for many accidents -- and, because of the sheer size of the trucks involved, those accidents are often very serious or even fatal. There...
Update: Family of deceased rider files lawsuit against Six Flags
In late July we discussed the fatal amusement park accident at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The tragedy took a woman's life, and there have been questions about the safety of the roller coaster from which she fell. The investigation into the accident was...