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The Dallas City Council will be considering whether police should begin towing all of the vehicles who are ticketed for failing to have required insurance coverage. There has been much debate over...

Filming of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, has been suspended pending the investigation of an accident on the set involving a stunt driver. The accident occured in the town of Limone sul...

According to a government study of data from 2004-2006, 15.1 percent of current drivers 18 and older drove under the influence of alcohol in the past year. In Wisconsin, that number hits 26.4...

SMU Sophomore Chynna Stone didn't think that her safety was at risk as she sat on the couch of her University Park apartment Friday afternoon. Stone is now in critical condition at Baylor University...

Detectives are still investigating an accident that killed one and sent four to the hospital late April 6 on NW Loop 820 in Fort Worth. Roger Flores, whose Chevy Trailblazer was struck by Rogelio...

Around 3 p.m. today, a cement mixer travelling on southbound Highway 183 crashed through the median, flipped into the northbound traffic, struck a motorcycle and landed on top of a red SUV. The red...

Around 3 p.m. today, a cement mixer travelling on southbound Highway 183 crashed through the median, flipped into the northbound traffic, struck a motorcycle and landed on top of a red SUV. The red...

Five individuals were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries late Sunday night when two vehicles flew off a Fort Worth Highway. Though it has not yet been determined whether...

In an update from yesterday's post about the Sunday night accident involving the caretaker of a Liberty Bell and Ten Commandments replicas, the driver of the historical display was apparently in...

Taking a motorcycle ride with his son just after midnight this morning, a 63-year-old man died when he fell from his motorcycle. He apparently struck an object along Interstate 30 in Fort Worth. His...

A man who regularly transports a replication of the Liberty Bell and the Ten Commandments stone tablets to the funerals of area veterans was injured Sunday night in a Dallas suburb when his truck was struck by a sport utility vehicle (SUV). He had apparently stopped on the westbound shoulder of a Highway 121 access road to strap the objects to the trailer when a suburbun hit the truck....

A young teen driver fled the scene after striking a 13-year-old boy who was riding his bike in Rowlett Wednesday. According to a witness, the driver stopped a few blocks away and was later arrested on a charge of failure to stop and render aid. The boy was knocked unconscious by the blow. A helicopter flew the victim to Parkland Memorial Hospital, and his condition was not available at the time...

While reinforced alloys, impact-absorbing crumple zones and dozens of air bags in today's passenger vehicles certainly help save lives, the newer designs are also hindering rescue efforts. Hydraulic cutters commonly used by rescue crews to remove injured persons from a vehicle are less effective and sometimes worthless on the stronger car frames, making such efforts take much longer than before...

A 4-year-old girl. An 18-year-old man. A 60-year-old man. Someone's baby girl. Someone's brother. Someone's dad... All victims of fatal accidents involving suspected drunken drivers in the Dallas area.The 4-year-old Haltom City girl, Kaitlyn Sanchez, died about 10 p.m. March 14, an hour after a 32-year-old drunken driving suspect rear-ended the Ford station wagon in which she was riding. Marcial...

A school bus transporting 12 children to an Arlington school for the hearing impaired (Jean Massieu Academy) was struck by a passenger car around 7 a.m. March 13. The small vehicle was attempting to make it through a yellow light on the service road at Loop 12 and Keeneland Parkway in Dallas. It is ridiculous to think someone could be in such a hurry that they would put a large group of innocent...