Texas law enforcement averted a potentially catastrophic accident last week by apprehending a drunk driver behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler loaded with jet fuel. Although all DWIs are dangerous, drunk truck drivers can cause extremely devastating wrecks because the...
A new study used a federal agency's traffic fatality data to look at the relationship between alcohol or drug consumption and deadly crashes. The numbers are sobering: 57 percent of fatally injured drivers tested positive for at least one substance at the time of...
Two dogs escaped a yard in a Washington state neighborhood last week, injuring several people. Five people reported dog bites and the dogs also killed a cat. The dogs, a boxer and a pitbull terrier, had previous run-ins with the town's animal services division and...
The school year has scarcely started and already a Texas school bus crashed into a semi-truck at a traffic light, injuring several children. The bus accident occurred on the way to school, with 63 passengers on board. After finishing its morning route and picking up a...
Another Texas truck driver lost control of a semi this week, causing a big rig crash and spilling oil-related chemicals in the roadway. While no one was hurt, the tractor trailer accident is another example of how dangerous a speeding truck can be. The crash occurred...
A south Texas neighborhood is frustrated by threatening behavior from a pair of pit bulls. The two dogs recently killed a neighbor's pet and charged at an older woman sitting on her porch. After the attack, neighbors fear similar dog bite incidents. This attack...
Although the oil and gas industry has always involved a higher than average risk of accidents, Chevron has generally had a better safety record than other companies. Several serious accidents in the last few years have undermined that record. Oil and gas field...
In four separate incidents last week, drivers drove their vehicles into houses around San Antonio. The crashes resulted from various causes but three of them involved teen drivers. Teenage drivers are often more likely to cause car accidents. In one of the crashes, a...
An SUV rollover tragically killed five children in Texas this week. A tire blowout, a frequent factor in rollover accidents, apparently caused the crash. At the time of the crash, the SUV was bound for a Texas waterpark carrying nine children and three adults. The...
A county-wide ban on pit bulls (Miami-Dade in Florida) will stay in place, as it has for more than 20 years, reports Elinor J. Brecher for the Miami Herald. The original 1989 ban came about after an 8-year-old child suffered horrendous dog bite injuries from a pit...