Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

Some Data on Fatal School Transportation Related Accidents

The horrific and deadly crash between a FedEx truck and a chartered bus carrying students in California last week has brought increased scrutiny to school transportation. Our Houston school bus accident attorneys note that the high school students and their chaperones were on a trip to a university to explore options for the students’ futures. It is […]

Could rules limiting trucker hours prevent other FedEx – bus wrecks?

Fatigue among long-haul truck drivers has been recognized for years as a contributing factor in many commercial truck crashes. Drivers doze off momentarily behind the wheel and then veer out of their lane off the road or into incoming traffic. Our Houston truck accident injury lawyers realize that sometimes drivers wake in time to get […]

Think Safety First: Make the Right Wheel Choice for your Vehicle

The factory tires that come with your car or truck were usually built specifically to hold the weight of that particular vehicle and the loads it’s intended to carry. Our Houston tire defect lawyers point out that the overall design of the wheel assembly might be carefully calculated to properly distribute weight loads and extend the life […]

The Critical Importance of Proper Torque in Wheel Assemblies

Vehicles are usually designed at the same time as their specific wheels and tires to achieve optimum safety in the intended use of the vehicle. The tires designed for a light truck differ markedly from those designed for a compact car. The Houston wheel hub defect lawyers at Denena Points, PC note that wheels and […]

More on wheel hub failure caused by metal fatigue

As our Pearland, Texas car accident attorneys mentioned in Part 1, a loose wheel will cause the wheel studs to break and then the wheel and tire to separate from the vehicle. The primary cause of a loose wheel is undertorquing or overtorquing the lug nuts, which is why responsible aftermarket rim manufacturers issue explicit instructions on […]

Choose the aftermarket additions to your vehicle carefully

Beware of aftermarket additions to your vehicle. As the recent spate of major recalls by Mazda, GM, Toyota, and other automakers demonstrates, plenty of things can be wrong with a car, truck, or SUV even after designers, engineers, and manufacturers have spent intense amounts of effort trying to build a perfect vehicle. Designers, engineers, materials experts, […]

Fault in the Fatal Beaumont Truck and Lawn Mower Crash

On Saturday evening, a pickup truck fatally struck a man riding a lawn mower on the service road of the Eastex Freeway in Beaumont. Vernon Boudreaux was the man fatally injured by the crash. The driver of the pickup truck reportedly also received transport to the hospital after the accident. The mower was pushed into the median […]

Did Materials Piled on Roof lead to Fatal Houston Heights Collapse?

A worker fell to his death through the roof of a building in Houston Heights on Tuesday morning. The Houston work accident lawyers at Denena Points, PC report that the accident occurred around 11 a.m. in the motor sports building at Lamelia Lane and 11th Street. Police said a worker was placing materials on the roof […]

Another Sudden Construction Site Collapse Injures Pflugerville Worker

Tuesday afternoon, a truck delivering supplies to a building site reportedly struck the framing of the construct, causing it to collapse. A construction crew had been working on the roof trusses at the Heatherwilde Professional and Medical Center in Pflugerville, and when one fell after the truck hit the building, the rest came down in […]