Last Sunday, in Fort Worth, Hung Nguyen died around 2 a.m. after being involved in a seven-car collision on the bridge from the southbound East Loop 820 to eastbound East Freeway (Interstate 30), due to icy road conditions.
While standing next to his 2001 Honda and inspecting for any damage to his vehicle from the earlier crash, Nguyen and his car were struck by an on-coming vehicle that pushed Nguyen over the barrier, where he fell several hundred feet to the freeway below.
Police said that the pileup occurred due to icy conditions on the bridge, which initially caused two cars to collide after which a tow truck stopped to assist them. Nguyen’s Honda subsequently ran into the back of the tow truck while a black car crashed into Nguyen’s vehicle. With Nguyen outside his vehicle, he was struck by the sixth car which was then struck by a seventh car.
In Arlington, Texas police have stated that icy road conditions were also most likely a factor in the death of Paul Travis Smith, 36. That accident involved two 18-wheel tractor-trailers on Interstate 30 at Fielder Road.
In total, Fort Worth police reported 44 accidents on Sunday between midnight and 10 a.m. compared to 14 for the previous week, during the same time period.
In Dallas, 144 car wrecks were reported on city streets from midnight to 10 a.m. and 140 reported on freeways.
Unfortunately, auto accidents such as these can often be the result of poor weather conditions combined, in many cases, with a lack of judgement on the part of motorists. These accidents frequently occur in our local cities such as Irving, Southlake, and Arlington, TX, and can be quite catastrophic. If you’ve been involved in a Dallas metroplex or DFW area auto accident, you may wish to consult with an experienced local personal injury lawyer.
Our personal injury law firm will offer a free initial legal consultation on your potential personal injury case. If you, or someone you know, have been injured, you should immediately contact a Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyer in order to know your legal rights regarding compensation for medical expenses and lost wages. Call Texas Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 for more information or click here to contact us by email.
MESQUITE, TX—Mariana Aguilarde-Rodriguez died early Monday morning after causing a head-on crash with another vehicle. The collision occurred just before 2 a.m. on Monday when Arguilarde-Rodriguez’ pick-up collided with another truck on I-30 between Motley and Big Town Boulevard in Mesquite, Texas. Arguilarde-Rodriguez was reportedly driving the wrong way on I-30. She was transported to the hospital with multiple, critical injuries and died several hours later. The other driver and a passenger were taken to the same hospital with less severe injuries and are expected to survive.
Regrettably, fatal accidents like these happen all too often in our local communities like Mesquite, Garland, and Richardson, TX. Some are caused by wrong-way drivers. Some are the result of DWI or DUI. Many cause serious personal injury and even wrongful deaths. If you have been involved in an auto accident in Garland, Richardson, or Dallas, Texas or a nearby area, a local, experienced personal injury attorney can help you.
If you have been injured in an accident as a result of someone else’s careless driving, you should contact a Mesquite personal injury lawyer immediately. Our personal injury law firm offers free initial legal consultations. Call Texas Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 or click here to contact us by email.
DALLAS, TX—Police say that a driver who ran a red light this past Sunday was responsible for a serious crash. Sometime in the early morning hours on Sunday, the driver smashed into a car carrying a teenager and two small children at the intersection of Westmoreland Road and Singleton Boulevard in Dallas, Texas. The condition of the driver who caused the accident is unknown. All three victims from the other vehicle were immediately transported to Children’s Medical Center with personal injuries.
Unfortunately, serious injury car accidents like these occur frequently in our local communities like Dallas, Garland, and Richardson, TX. Many cause serious personal injury and even wrongful deaths. If you have been involved in an auto accident in Garland, Richardson, or Dallas, Texas or a nearby area, a local, experienced personal injury lawyer can help you.
If you have been injured in an accident as a result of someone else’s careless driving, you should contact a Dallas, TX injury attorney immediately to help you determine what insurance coverage is in place to cover your medical expenses and lost wages, and so that you can take steps to protect your legal rights. Our car accident law firm offers free initial legal consultations. Call Dallas Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 or click here to contact us by email.
GARLAND, TX—Alcohol was a suspected factor in two recent MVA collisions in Van Alstyne, which is about 18 miles north of McKinney, and borders Collin and Grayson County.
Both auto crashes occurred Monday night, February 1, between 7:00 and 10:00 pm. The first accident happened on US Highway 75 when a Ford Explorer traveling south in a northbound lane slammed into a Toyota Camry. Although both drivers were sent to Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, according to police, their bodily injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
In a separate motor vehicle accident, Bobbi Lalonde, 44, of Denison, was driving south in the northbound lane of US Highway 75 near Farmington when the second wreck occurred just after 9 p.m. The victim, a Garland resident, was killed. A Van Alstyne police spokeswoman said Lalonde was booked into the Grayson County Jail on suspicion of intoxication manslaughter.
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Dallas, TX — Two or more people were killed this morning in a multiple car collision on westbound LBJ Freeway near the High Five interchange on the border of Richardson and Dallas, Texas. Several others were injured, including a child, in the car accident, which occurred just east of Central Expressway (Hwy 75).
The crash occurred about 4:40 a.m. this morning when a motor vehicle collided with two other vehicles. Information on the victims and the cause of the wreck has not yet been released.
Regrettably, fatal accidents like these happen all too often in our local communities like Dallas and Richardson, TX. Some are the result of DWI or DUI. Many cause serious injuries and even deaths. If you have been involved in an auto accident in Plano, Richardson, or Dallas, Texas or a nearby area, a local, experienced personal injury attorney can help you.
Our personal injury law firm offers free initial legal consultations on personal injury cases. If you have been injured, you should contact a Plano, Texas personal injury lawyer immediately to help you determine what insurance coverage is in place to cover your medical expenses and lost wages, and so that you can take steps to protect your legal rights. Call Plano Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 for more information or click here to contact us by email.
Arlington, TX — Slippery roads caused by rain are suspected to be the cause of a one-car accident in Arlington that left one man dead and his female passenger injured.
Arlington police were called to the scene at approximately 10:30 p.m. Sunday night, November 15, on Interstate 20 near Green Oaks Boulevard. Apparently, the driver’s car veered off the highway and hit a guardrail.
Tragically, fatal traffic accidents like these happen often in our local communities. This same weekend, a toddler was also killed in Oak Cliff when he was run over by a family member driving an SUV. In West Oak Cliff, a 16-month-old boy who was not restrained in a child seat died from injuries sustained in a rear-end collision. In addition, a crash on Jim Miller Road in Pleasant Grove claimed the life of a 37-year-old man while two motorcycle wrecks in Dallas, TX were responsible for the death of two others.
Regardless of the cause, if you have been involved in an auto accident in Mesquite or a nearby area, a local, experienced personal injury attorney can help you.
Our Dallas personal injury law firm offers free initial legal consultations on personal injury cases. If you have been injured, you should contact a Mesquite, Texas personal injury lawyer immediately to help you determine what insurance coverage is in place to cover your medical expenses and lost wages, and so that you can take steps to protect your legal rights. Call Texas Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 or click here to contact us by email.
PLANO, TX — Plano police spokesman Rick McDonald explains that there were no witnesses to the accident that left two people dead in the wake of a crash that occurred during the early morning hours of Saturday, October 10.
The two male victims were found inside a 2000 Plymouth that had struck a concrete block which served as the base of a light pole. “It appears they were driving northbound in a right hand turn lane, and they failed to change lanes at Highland Drive,” McDonald said. The single car accident occurred in the 2500 block of Preston Road.
The driver, identified as 20-year old Perfecto Sarinana-Ayala, was a resident of Frisco Texas. At the time of the report, the passenger’s identity was pending until the man’s next of kin could be notified. While McDonald explained that the cause of the accident is still under investigation, Plano police believe that alcohol and excessive speed contributed to the weekend crash.
Sadly, fatal accidents like these happen often in local communities like Plano. Some are the result of DWI or DUI. Many cause serious injuries and even death. If you have been involved in an auto accident in Plano or a nearby area, a local, experienced personal injury attorney can help you.
Our personal injury law firm offers free initial legal consultations on personal injury cases. If you have been injured, you should contact a Plano, Texas personal injury lawyer immediately to help you determine what insurance coverage is in place to cover your medical expenses and lost wages, and so that you can take steps to protect your legal rights. Call Texas Personal Injury Lawyer Kristopher Barber at (972) 231-5800 for more information or click here to contact us by email.
FAIRVIEW, TX — Poor visibility due to dense fog was blamed for a major accident on U.S. 75 that resulted in a jackknifed Con-way Freight tandem trailer.
Despite message boards and warning signs posted ahead of the construction zone at the Highway 121 interchange, reaction time is greatly reduced when weather conditions limit visibility say Fairview police.
This was the reason given by the driver of the tractor trailer 18-wheeler who stated that dense fog kept him from seeing construction barriers until the last second. In an attempt to avoid the barriers, the driver over-corrected, and the truck jackknifed.
Police said say they hope the North Texas Tollway Authority and the Texas Department of Transportation will add lighting and signage that could help prevent another wreck.
Despite the disruption to traffic on this portion of U.S. Hwy 75 near Allen, TX for more than seven hours, the driver escaped without injury, and no other vehicles were involved. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case. Poor weather and resulting road conditions are a major cause of automobile accidents and truck accidents that cause serious injury or death.
If you have been involved in a car accident in Fairview, Allen, or McKinney, a local, experienced personal injury attorney can help you. Our Accident law firm offers free consultations on personal injury cases. If you or someone you know has been injured, you should contact an Allen personal injury lawyer immediately so that you will know your rights and can determine what insurance coverage may be in place to cover your damages. Call our office at (972) 231-5800 or click here to contact us by email.
Parents with kids under 8 years of age may need to pull out their child’s old car booster seat or buy a new one, if a new bill on child safety seat rules passes in Texas.
Currently, only children under 5 years old and shorter than 36 inches are required to be in child safety restraints, but most children outgrow the height requirement by the time they are 3 years old.
Texas Senate Bill 61 would raise the requirement to include children under 8 years old or 4 feet 9 inches. (That height requirement matches the NTSB safety recommendations.)
For a listing of safety seat recommendations for children, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a great online guide. Prices for boosters, unlike more expensive car seats, tend to sell for $40 or less.
In car accidents, children ages four to eight years restrained by an adult seat belt are more likely to suffer severe head, spinal cord, and internal organ injuries than those in booster seats. Booster seats reduce the risk of these injuries by 59 percent, according to the experts.
The new law is intended to reduce personal injuries from car accidents like the one that killed 6 year-old Molly Cieminski in McKinney, Texas.
Unfortunately, despite ever-improving safety measures, auto accidents happen every day in our local communities such as McKinney, Plano, and Richardson, Texas. Many cause serious injuries and even death. If you have been involved in an automobile accident in McKinney, Texas, Plano, Texas, or Richardson, Texas, or the surrounding areas, an experienced-local injury attorney can help you.
Our Personal Injury law firm offers free initial legal consultations on accident and injury cases. If you have been injured, you should contact a Texas personal injury lawyer immediately so that you will know what insurance coverage is in place and so that you can take steps to protect your legal rights.
Part 3 of CNN’s report concludes their investigation of the insurance industry’s practices and poor treatment of auto accident victims.
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