The Houston Chronicle reported on September 21 that Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Ted Houghton asked for help from Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) planners in addressing the state’s increased traffic fatalities and commercial vehicle crashes. Houghton’s remarks came in response to a Houston Chronicle and Houston Public Media News 88.7 investigation that documented how “Texas…
As we head into the final month of summer, there is sure to be an increase in attendance at amusement parks and water parks all over Texas. Popular destinations include Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier and the Kemah Boardwalk outside Houston to Six Flags theme parks in San Antonio and Arlington. Hundreds of thousands of…
This past weekend an accident caused by a red light runner took the lives of three teenagers and injured a couple of others. The teens were on their way home from a graduation party on Friday night when their car was struck. After the accident the red light runner fled the scene showing no regard…
An investigation by local news station KHOU found that over the past 3 years there have been over 500 accidents involving Harris County Sheriff’s deputies where the deputy was at fault. The investigation found that in the vast majority of these cases the deputy at fault faced no or very minimal punishment. We don’t expect…
This past Saturday tragedy struck on Lake Conroe when a young man on a party boat drowned. The incident occurred when the man jumped from the second level deck of the boat to the water but struck the first deck on the way into the water and did not re-surface. Later that evening Montgomery County…
A bus rollover accident occurred around 8 A.M. on Easter morning on I-35 outside of Laredo. Although the bus was only carrying 32 people, two passengers, one of whom was from Houston, were killed and a number of others were seriously injured. The Texas Department of Public Safety said that the driver of the bus…
Tuesday evening a number of people, many of whom were children, were sent to local hospitals due to a chlorine leak at an indoor swimming facility. The leak caused nausea and respiratory problems for those at the facility but thankfully everyone got out of the building before anything more serious happened. The cause of the…
This year Houston Police have noticed a concerning rise in the number of auto-pedestrian accidents occurring in the Houston area. One area that has been the focus of this problem is a stretch of Bellaire Boulevard running through Houston’s Chinatown neighborhood. Since the beginning of the year 3 people have been hit and killed by…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently announced a massive recall of about 8.7 million pounds of meat from a California company amid concerns that the meat came from diseased animals which were not properly inspected. The government agency described the meat products as “unsound, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human…
Late Sunday night a bicyclist was struck and killed by a car in east Houston. This became the third fatal hit and run involving a bicyclist in Houston in the past month and a half. These recent accidents once again bring to light the long standing issue of bikers and drivers sharing the road in…
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