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Large number of wrecks & injuries on Labelle-Fannett stretch of Hwy 73

Coastal Bend injury lawyers on the curiously hazardous stretch of Highway 73 near Labelle Road. You might remember the 79-vehicle pileup in January caused by a dense back of smoke and fog that sent several people to hospitals with injuries. News reports were filled with witness accounts of the horror of descending into sudden blackness, experiencing crashes […]

Federal safety officials review Corpus Christi Citgo plant for HF leaks

Galveston injury attorneys note that a team from the U.S. CSB (Chemical Safety Board) is set to look into operations at Citgo’s Corpus Christi alkylation plant. Their presence at the Citgo plant relates to an accident involving release of HF (hydrofluoric acid), a potentially deadly compound, at that plant on Monday. The Corpus Christi Citgo plant uses […]

Importance of proper safety precautions when truckers stop in the road

Texas truck accident attorneys note that a trucker is facing charges of criminally negligent homicide after he parked his truck in the fast lane of a Texas freeway and failed to put up any warning signals, resulting in a fatal crash. Andre J. Dixon parked his tractor-trailer in a southbound lane of Loop 410 near I-10 […]

Source of deadly UK crane collapse identified: using the wrong manual

Structural collapse attorneys note that a tower crane being used to build a new block of flats in Battersea, U.K. suddenly collapsed and crushed a man washing his car at his own home nearby. The collapse also pulled down a balcony on the occupied set of flats. The force of the 2006 collapse also killed the […]

Canadian Accident Offers a Portrait of the Classic Dump Truck Wreck

Our Houston dump truck wreck lawyers have mentioned before that one of primary causes for accidents among dump trucks and garbage trucks is the accidental failure to lower the dump truck lift bed before driving off. Well, in Canada, media just reported a classic accident of this type that occurred on Thursday. A dump truck was driving along with […]

Automakers measuring your Houston, TX child’s safety in dollars?

Our Houston backover accident lawyers point out that thousands of children (around 5,000 generally) under the age of 14 suffer injuries each year when vehicles run over them in driveways. More than 200 of these children die from their injuries. And most often it’s a relative or friend who must suffer the regret of accidentally hitting the […]

Texas carnival rides get 1 annual inspection even if moved many times

Our carnival ride injury lawyers note that the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) is here again, and thousands of people will be enjoying the thrills and chills of the many exciting carnival rides. You might remember that last year, a man fell to his death in the closing hours of the HLSR from the Hi-Miler, a […]

Crashes from centerline crossovers needlessly claim Texas lives

Our Harris County crash injury lawyers recently discussed the use of rumble strips as a means of preventing deadly accidents, particularly the frequent accidents where one vehicle crosses over a centerline and impacts another head-on. We referenced NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) Report 641 that claims that centerline rumble strips greatly reduce the numbers of fatal and injury […]

How a tire tread separation leads to a dangerous Houston car crash

Houston tire tread separation attorneys mention that most tires consist of many layers of tire rubber and other materials alternating with layers of steel. Steel itself does not bond with rubber, so the metal belts might be coated with a material like brass that will bond. But the same properties that ensure that the coating material […]