Reports indicate that a former Texas cowboy player was charged with driving while intoxicated apparently in Denton County, Texas. The football star had a remarkable career with the Dallas Cowboys and two other teams racking up incredible statistics. There’s no doubt that many young men playing high school football inspire to emulate players like this [...]
According to news reports, 5 people were hospitalized after a very serious to car accident near downtown Houston. Reports indicate that a BMW traveling south on Dowling crashed into a Dodge car on Polk early this morning. For passengers in the BMW were taken to the hospital and at least two were listed in serious [...]
A suspected intoxicated driver crashed into a Houston Police Department vehicle early today according to news reports. The car accident happened on Westheimer near Crocker Road about 2:30 this morning. Reports indicate the officer was parked and getting ready to get out of his vehicle when the squad car was struck by the suspect who [...]
Texas has a real drunk driving accident problem and Houston in particular leads the nation in fatal drunk driving accidents. Even though consequences in the criminal arena can be severe it does not help the family that a drunk driver is in prison. Losing a loved one or facing massive medical bills while you’re trying [...]
Houston leads the nation in fatal drunk driving accidents. It is a dubious distinction and one that Houston officials are trying hard to rectify. While criminal prosecutions are on the upswing from drunk driving arrests, many times for the victim the only real justice is the civil lawsuit, knowing someone is in jail does not [...]
Driving while under the influence of illegal substances – or, more commonly, drugs. There can be no argument that an aggressive campaign has been waged against drunk driving accidents in this country in the past – with varying results. However this same attention has not been focused on driving under the influence of drugs even [...]
As the year 2010 comes to a close it is a time that most celebrate — New Year’s Eve. With the celebration of the ending of the old year and the beginning of a new comes the dangers of drinking and driving and drunk driving accidents. Houston and the surrounding area have adopted a “no [...]
If you are a water enthusiast (and even if you’re not) Texas is a great place to live. According to the state Department of Natural Resources there are approximately 177 freshwater lakes and over 6700 reservoirs. These numbers don’t reflect the extensive river and stream system and the fact that there are 300 miles of [...]
We are all probably a little surprised that the year is coming to a close. It truly seems like yesterday that we were toasting the dawn of 2010 – and now it’s flown by. The kids are a little older and so are we and most of us have toiled in our various areas of [...]
The Texas Legislature will be considering a new drinking driver law early next year according to reports. The new law “driving while ability impaired” would allow charges to be filed against people with a blood-alcohol content of less than the current .08 limit. The prospects of such a law passing in Texas are not probably [...]
