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Texas drivers know how quickly traffic can move on the state’s roads. Yet many Texans are used to fast driving. To them, it doesn’t feel dangerous - which means studies about speeding deaths can come as a surprise.  Many Texas personal injury lawyers took note when the National Highway Traffic...

Drunk driving is dangerous; no one can dispute that. Despite the well-known dangers of driving under the influence, motorists continue to get behind the wheel after having too much to drink. In fact, there was a DUI accident in Austin not too long ago involving a family of four whose...

It seems that every other day there is another traffic accident in Texas resulting in serious injuries or death. Recently, four individuals were seriously hurt in a Travis County two-vehicle collision. In another crash in Coffee City, one person was killed, and another sustained injuries. The wreck in Travis County...

Car accidents can happen at any time. However, they seem to be a daily event in Texas. Recently five people were killed after a head-on two-vehicle crash on Highway 110. This highway has a reputation for the high number of motor vehicle accidents that happen each year. Those who live...

Spring break is soon upon us, and many Texans are planning to drive to other locations to spend time with their families. During this time, there needs to be a great degree of caution when out on the highways. This is because there are going to be more people on...

Yesterday, a new study on brain injuries in NFL players that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association made news. As you may have heard, the study looked at brains of 111 former NFL players, and 110 of the brains had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)....

We obviously represent a lot of people who are injured in car wrecks so I'm always interested in what happens on the driverless car front.  This story  presenting real life drama and corporate espionage in the driverless car industry in today's Austin American Statesman caught my attention. The story centers...

A new National Highway Transportation Safety Administration study has found that driving while drunk is more dangerous than driving under the influence of other drugs.    Under the data, positive test results for several types of drugs found only small increases in the risk of a crash, but being under the...

Yesterday, the Austin City Council adopted a ban on drivers using hand held electronic devices, including cell phones.  The ban, to go into effect on January 1, 2015, doe contain exceptions for hands-free devices and for 911 or other emergency calls.  You can read more about the ban in this...

I was really ticked off yesterday. As I was driving home, I was approaching a crosswalk.  Normally, there isn't anyone at the crosswalk, but yesterday someone was there waiting to cross (actually, one of my daughter's dance teammates crossing to go to her dance studio). I stopped so that she...