Automobile Accidents

• Cement Mixer Accident Kills One, Injures More

  Jeff Rasansky | April 11, 2008 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• 5 Injured When Vehicles Flew Off Highway

  Jeff Rasansky | April 07, 2008 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Update: Liberty Bell Accident

  RLF Staff | April 01, 2008 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Motorcycle Accident Kills 63-Year-Old Man

  RLF Staff | April 01, 2008 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Truck Toting Liberty Bell Replica Hit

  RLF Staff | March 31, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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....

• Hit-and-Run Accident Knocks 13-Year-Old Cyclist Unconscious

  RLF Staff | March 20, 2008 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Pros and Cons of Sturdier Cars

  RLF Staff | March 19, 2008 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Dallas Plagued by Drunken Driving Accidents

  RLF Staff | March 17, 2008 10:38 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Car Collides with School Bus

  RLF Staff | March 13, 2008 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Early Morning Dallas Crash Kills 2

  RLF Staff | March 12, 2008 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...