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At about 5:15 p.m. Monday evening, an accident between a utility truck and a San Marcos CISD school bus sent more than a dozen people to a San Marcos, Texas hospital. This accident demonstrates just how important it is for a driver to stop when they see a school bus flashing its lights, and to avoid…

The information was delayed by several days, the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday announced that two children had died and several others were injured in a number of bad-weather-related accidents in and around Odessa, Texas in the last week. One accident occurred on Interstate 20 near mile marker 106, at around 4:30…

While they are intended to reduce the problem of distracted driving, two just-released studies suggest that voice-activated dashboard systems and smartphones may actually worsen distracted driving. These two studies, by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah, paint a troubling picture. These types of systems are supposed to be designed…

A terrible Texas car-truck accident occurred last Wednesday evening, July 23, and took the life of an 18-year-old woman as she was on her way to Lufkin, where she was planning to stay with a cousin before beginning freshman orientation at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches Saturday morning. According to an accident report, the accident…

Summer began last week, and we all know that summer in Texas brings lots of traffic and very hot roadways, which means more hazards on the roadways. This past week gave us a preview of what this summer could hold for Texas drivers if we’re not careful. To begin the weekend, a fatal accident…

Dump Truck Accident Kills 1: Wrong Way Driver Blamed U.S. 59 South in the Isleib area of Fort Bend County was closed for a while last Friday morning, after a wrong-way driver entered the southbound lanes of the highway and crashed into a dump truck. The crash not only resulted in the death of…

Fatal Accident Caused by Ice This winter has been a difficult one for Texas drivers, as we’ve seen more than our share of Icy roads. One of the latest examples is a tragic one, in which a teenager was killed in the Denton area, after a storm that brought freezing rain and snow left…

States Search for Solutions Drivers who end up going the wrong way on a restricted roadway, such as a freeway or a turnpike, can become a major risk to the others on the road and cause very serious head-on collisions. It’s been known for decades that most such drivers get in that position by…

Wrong-Way Driving Accident in Denton Based on the news reports, instances of wrong-way driving on Texas highways are far more prevalent than previously thought. Such drivers are obviously a very real danger to everyone else on the highway, and the Texas Department of Transportation is conducting research into solutions to the problem, especially considering…

All Methods of Texting and Driving Dangerous: Study Shows All Methods of Texting Dangerous It’s easy to see how typing out a text message on a cell phone while you’re actively driving a car down a highway can be dangerous. That’s why many of us have looked into alternatives, such as Siri’s speech-to-text technology,…