April is the distracted driving awareness month and also an opportunity for each of us to talk to our teenage drivers friends and family about the dangers of texting or e-mailing and driving. Distracted driving causes a growing number of Texas accidents. According to recent studies as many as one out of four accidents are [...]
Legislation is currently being considered in raising the weight limits on 18-wheelers carrying goods to retail stores from farms, and manufacturers. Currently Canada, Mexico, and The UK have much higher weight limits, and they have found that is cuts down the number of trips, and greatly reduces fuel bills for the transportation companies. This would [...]
A major traffic accident involving a semi truck tractor-trailer shut down the Eastex Freeway most of Thursday afternoon. As rush-hour traffic approached it was backed up literally for miles. Although road crews worked hard at clearing the truck accident the damage to Houston’s communting traffic had been done. Houston suffers a traffic accident from an [...]
All of us have been on the road and watch someone who was talking on the cell phone and not paying attention to the roadway or other drivers. Perhaps it was a car stopped at a green light or a driver simply holding a cell phone up to his or her ear and lost in [...]
Highly alert, and well-trained commercial truck drivers who follow the rules are the lowest risk for insurance companies, and trucking enterprises. The problem is they may not be the most profitable people in the bunch. Television shows like 60 Minutes, and ABC’s 20/20 have done countless reports on trucking safety over the past several decades, [...]
Perhaps one of the worst results of a car or truck accident is the recurring memory of the experience that physicians term a ‘flashback’. It is an unfortunate and often debilitating psychological phenomenon in which a person who has lived through a particularly horrifying and traumatic incident is helpless to prevent a recollection of events [...]
In what seems to be an ongoing event on Houston highways, a semi truck accident shut down 610 today for many hours while crews worked to clean up a fuel spill from the truck accident. The 18-wheeler accident occurred early Monday morning between a minivan and a tractor-trailer on the East Loop of Houston. What [...]
New automobiles, pickup trucks, and sport utility vehicles all have something in common these days besides the obvious category of transportation they fall in, and it is they have little high tech black boxes installed to record the five-seconds leading up to the air bags deploying during a accident. It records rate of speed, Rpms [...]
In what may seem to be an oxymoron – there is a classification of traumatic brain injury that is termed as ‘mild’. For those of us who are laymen in the field of medicine – this hardly seems to make sense. Let us consider the signs and symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in [...]
Texas – and every state across the country – has established weight and size limits for semi-trucks in the state. They include exceptions as well. What follows are some of the statistics posted on the Texas Department of Transportation website. It should help the average person get a better idea of the massiveness of these [...]
