Motor Vehicle Accidents | InjuryBoard Dallas

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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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