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In a horror that every parent fears during spring break week, teenage student from nearby Channelview High School suffered traumatic injuries as their charter bus crashed, plunging 50 feet down into a ravine along Interstate 10 near the Alabama and Florida state line. Officials confirmed that the one fatality was the…
Everyday tens of thousands of workers across Houston and around Texas go to work in the oil and gas industry. The jobs pay well but there is also risk that goes along with working in the industry, including injury as a result of an oil rig accident. In Oklahoma, Dianna…
Pedestrian accident fatalities have risen sharply around the country, including in Houston and throughout Texas. Call for a free case evaluation. Not since the early 1990s has the nation seen so many pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles, and traffic safety experts are scrambling to determine why in order to…
A national shortage of truck drivers, especially in Texas where the booming oil industry creates a demand for drivers, could result putting inexperienced truck drivers on the road. A rising economy has outpaced the ability of the trucking industry to find qualified drivers. Exacerbating the problem is a lack of…
An 18 wheeler swerves onto the shoulder of a turnpike, killing a tow truck driver doing his job. Oklahoma trooper declares “no need for this.” An Oklahoma tow truck driver was killed while working to haul a disabled vehicle when an 18 wheeler crashed into him after inexplicably swerving onto…
As technology toward driverless cars advances, driverless 18 wheelers are in development. Does this mean that truck drivers will disappear, and with them, truck accidents in Houston and around Texas? Political tension always exists over regulation to reduce 18 wheeler accidents and other truck accidents. The trucking industry recently sought to…
Five workers killed when gas well in Oklahoma explodes. Another worker flown by life flight to hospital. Initial reports of a blowout at the well followed by an uncontrolled release of gas. A massive fireball and thick black smoke erupted from a gas well in Pittsburg County in eastern Oklahoma…
So many big rig accidents involve driver negligence, so it’s refreshing when a hero steps forward to save a life in an 18 wheeler wreck. Too often it is our sad duty to report on companies whose negligence results in death and mayhem in 18 wheeler accidents. How refreshing, then,…
With 27 serious accidents in Alaska this year, BP still raises questions on its safety record in Houston and around America. The world was horrified on April 20, 2010 when the Deep Water Horizon drilling rig exploded and later sank, killing eleven crew members and spewing 200 million of barrels…
As a regulatory deadline loomed, truckers staged a last minute protest against a rule meant for safer roads in Houston and nationally. The long awaited deadline for truckers to have electronic logging devices installed on their big rigs happened yesterday and drivers around the country staged protests hoping to delay…
