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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), only three percent of truck drivers of large commercial trucks (like 18 wheelers) had consumed any amount of alcohol and then got behind the wheel and caused or were otherwise involved in a fatal...
As Jennifer Hiller reports for San Antonio Express-News, another fatal truck wreck happened on Sunday, ending the life of a 26-year-old oil tanker driver. The driver of a second oil tanker failed to yield on Texas 16. This is the latest wreck in August. In July, an...
This is a guest post by the personal injury trial attorneys of Console & Hollawell in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Turn signals prevent auto accidents, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the data to back up the claim. A 2009 study...
Brandi Grissom, writing for the Texas Tribune, describes the life of 26-year-old Michelle Gaines, whose mental capacity (after getting hit by an 18-wheeler in 2006) was reduced to the level of a 12-year-old. It almost goes without saying that Gaines was quite a...
As Joe Kemp reports for the NY Daily News, a cyclist's regular ride through Central Park took a turn for the worse when two dogs came upon him. The 54-year-old was pedaling through the park in the late July morning when the off-leash animals attacked, biting his legs...
By some accounts, federal regulations that require the publication of truck driver safety records - a record that might detail drug use, for instance - might be one major factor having an impact on hiring in the trucking industry. As Matt Olberding reports for the...
Sanjay Gupta, writing an opinion piece in the New York Times, suggests reasons why so many medical mistakes are said to occur in the nation. Gupta cites an estimate of roughly 200,000 patient deaths from medical mistakes every year, which would make it one of the...
As Christopher Sherman reports for the Associated Press, the Texas Department of Public Safety has been engaged in an ongoing investigation of the recent single-vehicle truck accident in Goliad County in South Texas that resulted in the deaths of 14 people. And...
Around 10 a.m. on Monday morning this week, three 18-wheelers hauling cargo for the oil and gas industry (gravel and water for hydrofracking well sites) crashed into each other on State Highway 72, resulting in the deaths of two of the truckers and serious...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, millions of people are bitten every year by dogs. And as Ted Griggs writes for the Advocate, more than 800,000 of those people suffer dog bites severe enough to prompt them to seek medical treatment. Dog...
