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Unfortunately, trucking accidents are a common occurrence with 18-wheel tractor-trailers and other large vehicles a common presence on Texas roadways. Trucking might be something of a necessary evil - but Texans should not have to worry about the likelihood of a...
If you've got kids in the car while you're driving, chances are you're more distracted than if you were chatting on your cell phone, at least according to Australian researchers. As Paula Faris reports for ABC News, this "first-of-its-kind" study indicates that kids...
As the state with one of the highest rates of truck accidents, it is perhaps appropriate that Texas hosts one of the most important truck safety functions in the nation. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration operates its Safety Investigator Academy in San...
As Jennifer Hiller reports for the San Antonio Express-News, fatal car wrecks in the Eagle Ford Shale area went up 40 percent in 2012. In some South Texas counties, like Karnes County, the number of collisions with trucks went up 1,000 percent. The president of the...
As a leading organization in the trucking industry, the American Trucking Association plays an important role in trying to reduce the rate of serious crashes that currently plague Texas roadways. One of the ATA's goals involves a list of what observers describe as "20...
Two days ago we wrote about the driver of a "monster truck," his modified Ford F-250, who was drunk behind the wheel after drinking for hours at a strip club, and ended up hitting and killing a young woman in the parking lot. Incidents like this make it plain that...
Major insurance company Farmers Group, Inc. has announced plans to stop providing homeowners coverage for California dog owners with pit bulls, Rottweilers, and wolf hybrids, according to Sharon Bernstein with NBC Los Angeles. "[T]hese three breeds caused more harm...
The heavily-modified, jacked-up Ford F-250 pickup shouldn't have even been on the road, according to Bruce Tomaso with the Dallas Morning News, when the driver of the so-called "monster truck," Eric Crutchfield, crushed a young woman outside a strip club in 2011....
As Justin Ray reports for NBC 5 News, Missouri City in Texas has decided to take a "crash tax" from drivers involved in a car wreck in order to recoup costs associated with emergency response services. The Missouri City Fire Department will be the one charging for the...
Ryan Loyd, reporting for Texas Public Radio, says that the oil boom in the Eagle Ford Shale - South Texas's 50-mile wide, 400-mile long fossil-fuel rich swath - is a bittersweet thing for Texans. There are big profits, but also big costs, even human costs. Eagle Ford...
