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Morning rush hour traffic was backed up for miles around the investigation of an early morning - about 3:20 a.m. - crash on Westbound Interstate 635 in Dallas. Another sad incident involving a tractor trailer truck and a small passenger vehicle, WFAA Channel 8 News reported that the car ran underneath the semi truck and the two vehicles ended up on the shoulder. As of 7:45 a.m., the names of the...

Semi-truck driver James Buchholz reportedly told police, "I don't know what happened. I might have fell asleep," when questioned in regard to the fatal crash involving his 2007 Freightliner and a Missouri family of four. The freightliner struck the family's Ford Crown Victoria from behind at an intersection in Pryor, Oklahoma, killing Melissa and Robert Hayes and their two teenage sons. Arrested...

A Dallas man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter of a 70-year-old Garland man as the result of an automobile accident in Dallas Thursday, March 6.Continue Reading....In what Garland police call a non-weather related accident just before midnight Thursday, March 6, 29-year-old Raymond Martinez of Dallas has been charged with intoxication manslaughter of a Garland man.According to...

Minor neck injuries kept Texas Rangers third-baseman Hank Blalock out of the Spring Training lineup for the March 4 game against the Diamondbacks. Blalock's vehicle, a Cadillac Escalade, was rear-ended at an intersection early afternoon Monday, March 3, as he and his wife Misty and 3-year-old son Trey were returning from lunch. Though airbags did not deploy and the family was taken to the...

A 20-year-old college student was one of two reported deaths in a freak accident Wednesday. An 18-wheeler ran off a freeway ramp in downtown Dallas and landed on a car. Ashley Parra, a political science major at the University of North Texas, was on her way to work at a local restaurant when the semi truck jumped over the freeway ramp and crushed her car with her inside. The driver, David...

At least two people were killed when a tractor trailer fell from an overpass in downtown Dallas and landed on a car crushing it.The rig was traveling northbound on Woodall Rogers headed to Interstate 35 North when it lost control in the left lane and vaulted off the ramp.The rig landed on Continental Avenue in Dallas, where a vehicle was waiting to pass through an intersection.Dallas tractor...

Texas trucking companies often gamble on putting unsafe and even illegal drivers on Dallas highways. Often, they hire illegal immigrants who have trouble reading road signs and communicating with employers, police and emergency crews. Texas trucking companies have also been known to hire felons, alcoholics and drug addicts because many background checks are not completed or rushed through. These...

The holidays are known as a fun celebratory time, but far too many people are injured or killed during this time due to the increase in drinking and driving. Drunk driving car accidents are a common occurrence year round, but the numbers greatly increase during the holidays. Holiday parties often include alcohol which leads to more and more drivers operating vehicles under the influence....

Prescription drug use and driving too fast cause over 50% of trucking accidents according to former truck driver.Allen Smith, a former truck driver who publishes the TruthAboutTrucking.com blog, has listed the "Top 10 Causes of Truck Accidents":1. Prescription Drug Use 26%2. Traveling Too Fast 23%3. Unfamiliar with Roadway 22%4. Over-the-counter Drug Use 18%5. Inadequate Surveillance 14%6....

At least 3 passengers of the Crown Princess cruise ship, which listed severely to the right off the coast of Port Canaveral, Florida, Tuesday plan to file a lawsuit against Carnival Corporation, a press released announced Thursday. The lawsuits are expected to be filed by the end of the month. There have been reports of as many as 260 people being injured in the cruise ship accident, which...

A federal study of Washington area drivers has found that 80% of automobile crashes involve drivers that were either distracted within seconds of the wreck, or were drowsy at the time. The study involved 100 vehicles equipped with cameras and sensors for about one year. Over 43,000 hours of data were recorded and gave real time access to the actions and state of drivers just before a...

A Virginia jury awarded has ordered a construction company to pay $8 million for the death of a seventeen year old student killed by a trucker who fell asleep at the wheel. Dwayne Mongold, employed by Danella Construction Corp., admitted to nodding off at the wheel but continued driving his truck, weighing more than 34,000 pounds. Davod Chu (17) and Jacob Wilens (16) were driving home from...

For years now, the bus manufacturing industry has repeatedly defeated lawsuits focused on the lack of seatbelts on commercial buses. Federal highway safety regulations have never mandated that seat belts are required on passenger buses, and the industry has relied on that lack of regulation to shield itself from liability in bus wreck cases. That comfort came to a crashing halt this week,...

Advances in automotive technology have provided us with vehicles that are incredibly resilient in withstanding low-speed traffic collisions with no or minimal visible damage. Reinforcements and bounce-back materials have virtually ensured that wrecks that occur at less than 10 MPH will leave your car all but unscathed to the naked eye. But what about the effect that such "low speed" accidents...

An analysis of federal crash statistics by the American Automobile Association (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety found that approximately 31,000 people were killed in crashes involving teenage drivers between the ages of 15 and 17 from the years 1995 to 2004. "While we may think of this as being a teen driver problem, it really affects a much broader audience," said Robert Darbelnet, AAA...