Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

Negligent Big Rig Maintenance leads to Injury and Death

The FMCSA oversees truck safety on our U.S. roadways. A raft of regulations exists governing truck maintenance, inspections, and driver behavior. But the Houston truck injury attorneys at Denena Points, PC know that negligent truck maintenance continues to be a problem. When a critical piece of truck equipment fails, the vehicle can go out of control and […]

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Fight among Nursing Home Residents Critically Injures a Man

We all worry if we must place our elderly relatives in assisted living or in a nursing home environment. We usually do it as a last resort, when we can no longer take adequate care of our family members ourselves. We help choose our relatives’ new living places trusting that our loved ones will be […]

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Cy-Fair School Bus Collision Illustrates Bus Crash Dangers

On Wednesday afternoon at Clay Road and Greenhouse, 17 students from Cy-Fair I.S.D. barely avoided disaster when an SUV slammed into their school bus. The schoolchildren quickly evacuated the school bus after the wreck and were told to stay back by firefighters who thought the bus might catch fire or explode. At least four students received transport […]

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Texas Motorcycle Crash Deaths Increasing Yearly

TxDOT data shows a yearly increase of 5% in the number of motorcycle crash deaths in Texas. Accidents claimed the lives of 494 motorcyclists last year and 470 in 2012. 4,339 of the motorcycle accidents in our state last year involved at least one other vehicle. And after a collision with a bike, drivers of […]

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Texas DUI crashes over 3 times as likely as other crashes to be fatal

In Texas, more than three times as many DUI crashes are fatal and nearly twice as many DUI wrecks cause serious injuries compared to other types of accidents. On rural roads, TxDOT statistics for 2012 show that only 1.59% of all accidents were fatal. Our Pearland car accident lawyers note that those wrecks claimed 1,892 lives. Where the crashes […]

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Boca Raton Collapse Heralds Danger Season for Outdoor Decks

Each year as the weather warms up and people begin to gather more frequently on outdoor terraces, decks, and balconies, we begin to see reports of structural collapses with multiple injuries. The deck collapse injury attorneys at Denena Points, PC note that most of the collapses occur on older decks from wear and deterioration. But occasionally […]

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The Growing Problem of Road Rage in America

The Houston car accident injury attorneys at Denena Points, PC note that our roads are becoming more crowded as the population increases. And we’re all spending more and more of our time on the road as commute times lengthen. Unfortunately, that means that more frustrated drivers are losing their cool and taking out their road rage on […]

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Texas Cone Zones can be Fatal Crash Zones if You’re not Careful

Last September’s avalanche of hundreds of new state laws included an expansion of the “Slow Down, Move Over” law relating to emergency vehicles. It was expanded to create fines if drivers didn’t slow down or move over as they passed active TxDOT work zones. Our Houston construction zone accident lawyers note that the law was […]

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Another Deadly Crash as Texas DWI Numbers Rise

Our Houston accident injury lawyers have repeatedly pointed out how Texas leads the nation every year in the number of deaths caused by drunken drivers. But the repeated warnings from us and from many others seem to have no effect. The deadly toll from Texas DWI crashes continues to rise. For instance, early Sunday morning the drunken […]

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