On Monday, a southbound Honda Pilot SUV reportedly crossed the centerline on Texas Highway 185 near Victoria, Texas to collide violently with a Ford King Ranch pickup truck. Our Alvin, TX accident attorneys sadly remark that the SUV burst into flames shortly after impact.
William Christopher Startz and Candace Valley of Port Lavaca and Eric Demond Taylor of Victoria died in the tragic head-on collision. Two occupants of the Ford King Ranch pickup truck, Barbara Skalak and Lloyd Skalak of Seadrift, received air transport to the hospital for their serious injuries. Authorities are investigating what caused the Honda Pilot SUV to cross the centerline. (Source: Janelle Bludau, Crossroads Today, 3/20/13)
The Alvin, TX accident attorneys at Denena Points, PC express their deepest sympathies to the families and friends of three people who died in this tragic head-on collision. Our thoughts and prayers are also with the two seriously injured victims of this horrific crash.
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Stretch of Highway 185 near Victoria, Texas Proves Particularly Deadly
Authorities say that the 52-mile stretch of Texas Highway 185 that leads between Victoria and Port O’Connor, Texas is particularly deadly. That short stretch of highway has claimed 11 lives in the past four years, including the three people killed on Monday. Local residents, workers, and authorities attribute the high fatality rate to heavy traffic from the local plants and factories, excessive speed, fatigued workers, and on occasion, dense fog. (Source: Sonny Long, Victoria Advocate, 3/20/13)
Our Alvin, TX accident attorneys note that worker fatigue has also been pinpointed as a factor in the sharp rise in fatal traffic accidents in the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas development region of South Texas. Workers reportedly often work shifts of 20 hours or more before pulling their trucks onto the narrow rural highways. Driver fatigue sometimes causes them to veer over the centerlines of the narrow highways and crash. Click here to read more about the problem of worker fatigue in relation to an increasingly high fatality rate from traffic accidents in the Eagle Ford Shale.
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