Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• Truck Driver: "I Might Have Fell Asleep"

  RLF Staff | March 11, 2008 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• 18-Wheeler Falls from a Dallas Overpass Onto a Car

  RLF Staff | February 27, 2008 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• 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...

• On The Subject of Whiplash Claims

  Jeff Rasansky | November 19, 2008 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Whiplash claims are some of the most common that are made following a road accident. Drivers and passengers can find themselves missing days at work and much needed wages through being...

• Car Crash in Kilgore Kills 3 and Injures 6 Others

  Jeff Rasansky | October 28, 2008 5:39 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  An accident occurred on Sunday just outside of Kilgor on Highway 31 east. Three people were killed and two others remain in serious condition. Francisco Cox, 24, Jamie Lee Watkins, 24 and Prentis...

• Drunken Driver Crashes Into Girl's Apartment

  Jeff Rasansky | April 21, 2008 5:15 PM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• 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 Resident Charged with Intoxication Manslaughter

  RLF Staff | March 07, 2008 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...

• Rangers Third-Baseman Suffered Neck Injuries in AZ Accident

  RLF Staff | March 07, 2008 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  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...