Recent 18 wheeler accidents in the greater Houston area and across the state have caused extensive damage in some cases – and resulted in several fatalities. *A semi-truck driver had pulled over to the side of the road on the North Freeway but it was night and he failed to ignite flares that would warn [...]
A Harris County Precinct 5 Deputy Constable was injured in a car accident a few days ago. Reports indicate that the officer was in her squad car with her lights flashing when a suspected drunk driver struck her car from the rear. It was a major impact and the female officer was rushed to the [...]
There are so many safety issues related to semi-truck driving that they could fill a novel as long as War and Peace. Let us consider several of them in this blog. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration one of the key factors in semi-truck accidents is the lack of adequate training. More than [...]
One of the biggest problems facing Texas families is not being on an equal footing with their insurance carriers. Recent changes in the law and also new court decisions have substantially limited the ability of a family in Texas to hold their insurance company accountable for abusive claims practices. One of the largest areas of [...]
Distracted driving is a major focus of a variety of organizations around the country including textkills and focusdriven. In a recent year 6000 highway deaths were attributed to distracted driving. The greatest culprit is the driver who attempts to receive and send text messages while driving. This single act has been found to have the [...]
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 [...]
Historically it is been very difficult to strengthen drunken driving laws in Texas. It was not that long ago that “open containers” were perfectly legal in Texas. In this legislative session such things as sobriety checkpoints and ignition locks have been under consideration but have yet to make it to the floor. Nevertheless, Texas has [...]
Top 3 reasons of car accidents are distracted driving, drowsy driving and drunk driving.
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 [...]
It will probably come as no surprise to readers that even after Americans spend billions of dollars on vehicle insurance that the companies are not as forthcoming in paying out on claims. Oh sure, they’ll parade themselves across television and other media ads as sensitive, honest, forthright and forthcoming – forever declaring that their number [...]
