If 90 percent of car accidents are caused by human error, might it make sense to take the human variable out of driving? Car companies are getting closer each year to making this a reality. Although there is still a lot of development, testing, and cost reduction that...
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Year: 2013
Downplaying risks of texting while driving could be dangerous
Most people understand that texting while driving is a dangerous activity. The problem is, many people still do it. They might think that they are capable of multitasking, and the other people on the road are not good at texting and driving. A recent study found that...
Oil field accidents a growing problem, one person injured Tuesday
A worker was injured in another oil field accident in Texas this week. According to a report a man was injured when disposal tanks cause fire at the site of an oil field, and was flown to a hospital in San Antonio. This is the second oil field explosion in two weeks...
San Antonio Interstate closed after zesty accident
It was 3 a.m. Thursday morning, when a tractor-trailer spilled produce over Interstate 37 in San Antonio. This accident happened after the truck driver reportedly took an exit too fast, causing his tractor-trailer to tip over. The cargo of limes spilled over the...
Backup car accidents preventable, policies remain unchanged
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...
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...
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...
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....