As Erin Mulvaney reports for the Beaumont Enterprise, the day after Election Day this week marked the 12-year stretch of an ugly trend: since Nov. 7, 2000, not one day has passed when someone hasn't been killed in a car or truck accident in Texas. The total of deaths...
He'll get 25 years behind bars for an accident last year that claimed the life of a mother of two children. On his way back from a long run and tired, the trucker was behind the wheel beyond the maximum number of hours allowed under the hours-of-service rules, which...
What do you get when you mix sleep apnea with truck driving? You get more accidents from driving while fatigued, as Frances Childress reports for the Examiner. According to a study published in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention, severely obese truck...
In anticipation of Halloween, CBS News in Dallas-Fort Worth gives us some tips on how to prevent a dog bite. Dog bites might be the greater threat, according to the report, than your kids getting overloaded on candy. Because dogs tend to be territorial, especially...
A terrible accident in Bexar County early Wednesday morning this week is a reminder to all drivers - especially those with children or who live around children - to exercise extra caution when backing out of the driveway. So-called "back-over" accidents happen every...
As Joe Conger reports for KENS 5 San Antonio, things aren't looking too hot for many South Texas counties affected by the Eagle Ford Shale big rig traffic. "Six of our counties are considered economically distressed counties," says Frio County Judge Carlos Garcia. "We...
Told to either move away with their dogs or have the dogs taken away from them, Gary and Susan Kolb originally said they would move out. As neighbor Ron Barone said, "Why wouldn't you move to a farm up here? There's acres and acres and acres of land up here." But,...
One of the biggest challenges in dog bite cases is positively identifying the owner of the dog. If a dog bite occurs while inside someone's home or on that person's property, the problem becomes much easier to solve. But when the dog bite occurs in a park - such as...
In this case, the fact that the flatbed truck driver has been cited roughly eight times for driving without a commercial driver's license makes this a pretty clear case of truck driver negligence, given the circumstances. FM 2978 near the Hardin Store Road...
As Jennifer Hiller reports for Fuel Fix, a Karnes County woman describes some recent automotive-related events. These include: The bottom of her car scraping the road from driving in ruts creating by oilfield trucks, her boyfriend almost getting injured or worse in...