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 [...]
Perhaps one of the most valuable agencies in all of the federal government is the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration or NHTSA – established in 1970. The organization is part of the larger Transportation Department and their mission is simple – “save lives, prevent injuries, reduce vehicle-related crashes”. Their responsibilities are actually quite diverse and [...]
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 [...]
If a person were to walk into a youth oriented meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, they would be shocked to find that seventy percent of the room’s attendees are under the age of eighteen, and many are court appointed by a judge’s order to attend AA for the duration of their probation. What is even more [...]
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 Houston, Texas today a police officer rescued a victim from a burning car and was burned as a result. According to reports, the car fire accident happened on Highway 59 in Houston. The officer reportedly saw and SUV and a Cadillac collide on the highway and catch fire. In rescuing a victim the officer [...]
Recently, officers in the Woodlands were dispatched to investigate an intoxicated driver. Reports indicate that the vehicle was swerving into oncoming traffic as well as running over curbs. Finally, an officer got the vehicle to stop and actually had to break a window to get the driver out of the vehicle, according to reports. Further [...]
