Automobile Accidents

• $8 Million Awarded to Family of Student Killed by Trucker

  Jeremi Young | March 07, 2006 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Waco Jury Says Federal Bus Regulators Have It Wrong

  Clint Gilbert | February 22, 2006 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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,...

• Low Speed Collisions Cause Injuries Too

  Clint Gilbert | February 01, 2006 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Teen Drivers Responsible for 31,000 Auto Accident Deaths

  Robert Wolf | January 18, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• New Residential Road Speed Limits May Save Lives

  Clint Gilbert | January 18, 2006 8:28 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Recently, the city of Mesquite reduced its speed limit on residential roads from 30 mph to 25 mph. The reduction required an amendment to existing state law, accomplished last year by state Rep. Elvira Reyna, R-Mesquite. Community support for the change was overwhelming, as the reduced speed limit came in response to the death on Haloween 2003 of a 10-year-old boy that was struck and killed by a...

• Speeding. Not So Fast.

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2006 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  As early as August 2006, cameras may be recording your traffic violations at the busiest Dallas intersections. But the question remains, is this leagl. Dallas council member Leo Chaney said, "If you travel all over America, everyone is utilizing this technology We're in the 21st century. It's an inevitability." Richardson and Frisco plan on utilizing the red light cameras and others are not...

• Texas Car Accident Negligence and Liability

  Staff Writer | December 30, 2005 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Automobile negligence and liability is an area of the law for which Texas has no specific legislation. Cases dealing with this subject matter are forced to rely on the common law and case law for negligence. A driver of an automobile generally owes a duty of care to other drivers, pedestrians or anything that may be affected by the operation of that vehicle. The operator of a motor vehicle...