On a somber note, a wrongful death incident took place at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport when an employee from the city of Austin’s Aviation Department tragically lost their life. The employee was struck by a fuel storage vehicle on Tuesday morning, near the western end of Barbara Jordan Terminal. The specifics surrounding the wrongful death incident…
Leander police are searching for witnesses to a crash that killed two people and sent four others to the hospital on Saturday. The names of the people who died have not yet been released, pending notification of relatives, according to a police news release. The crash happened at Hero Way and the 183-A tollway frontage…
A head-on collision Sunday morning on North Lamar Boulevard left one person dead, two others with potentially life-threatening injuries and another with potentially serious injuries, authorities said. Austin police said a third vehicle was involved in the crash but left the scene. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were able to track down and arrest…
2021 Truck Crash Data Released The recently released data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showed that truck crash deaths increased from 4,945 in 2020 to 5,788 in 2021, marking a staggering 17 percent increase in fatalities. Of particular concern is the fact that 1,008 of the total truck crash deaths in 2021…
The mother of the bride had just unwound with a change of clothes and a glass of wine on her short-term rental’s balcony when the sound of sirens gave the first impression that her daughter’s wedding night had gone awry. Within minutes, Lisa Miller was riding with her new in-laws to the South Carolina beach…
Highway fatalities are on the rise again — 46,000 in the U.S. in 2022, up 22%, according to numbers released recently. How many of those deaths involved distracted driving? “It’s much bigger than the data show,” said Bruce Landsberg, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Data collection methods are so riddled with problems, he said,…
A jury found UPS Inc. must pay a Missouri family $75million, after a company driver with a known history of drug abuse collided with a pregnant woman’s car, causing her baby to be born with permanent brain damage. In May 2018, Steven Ray Miller was driving a UPS truck and ran a red light, hitting…
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “Trucks Hauling Mail Violate Safety Rules and Cause Deadly Crashes.” The article highlights the increasing number of crashes involving mail trucks and the violations of safety regulations by the companies that operate them. According to the article, the United States Postal Service (USPS) contracts with private…
Seven people were killed and another was hospitalized in critical condition after a deadly head-on crash near New Braunfels on Sunday evening, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Authorities said they responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash just after 6 p.m. on RM 2722, north of Buffalo Spring Road in Comal County….
