Posts tagged accidents

• Toddler Drowns in Indiana Pool

  Shannon Weidemann | September 14, 2007 4:05 AM | 0 CommentsBrownsville , TX Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A 2-year-old girl drowned in her grandmother's swimming pool in Greencastle, Indiana. The Grandmother has been charged in the swimming pool death with neglect and several other charges. It is believed the woman was running an unlicensed daycare out of her home with inadequate supervision of the children. Greencastle police Detective Randy Seipel said 10 children, including two infants and...

• Fatal SUV Accident On I-45 South

  Robert Binstock | September 13, 2006 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Shortly before 8:00 am this morning, my cell phone rang and a friend alerted me to what I already suspected based on the brake lights I was seeing in all five lanes of I-45 North near Spring-Stuebner Road. Yet another major automobile accident on this well-traveled interstate highway was delaying commuters from Montgomery County and adding at least an hour to the daily trip to downtown Houston....

• Colin Holst, 4 Remembered After his Tragic Drowning at Life Time Fitness

  Jesse Guerra | June 16, 2008 5:21 PM | 37 CommentsCorpus Christi, TX Category: Wrongful Death
  

  According to an article in the Austin American Statesman, Colin Holst might have been only 4 years old, but he could run like the wind. Words by his father described him as having the endurance...

• Dallas Student Killed in Semi Truck Accident

  RLF Staff | February 28, 2008 7:20 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 20-year-old college student was one of two reported deaths in a freak accident Wednesday. An 18-wheeler ran off a freeway ramp in downtown Dallas and landed on a car. Ashley Parra, a political science major at the University of North Texas, was on her way to work at a local restaurant when the semi truck jumped over the freeway ramp and crushed her car with her inside. The driver, David...

• Driverless Boat in Connecticut Kills Woman

  Shannon Weidemann | September 14, 2007 2:49 AM | 0 CommentsBrownsville , TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A man fell from his boat and the boat continued moving forward and hit a sailboat in Connecticut this summer. A woman was killed in the maritime accident. The man was drunk at the time of the accident. Siege and his attorney Charles Tiernan would not comment on the case today outside of court. "I can't really comment at this point. I think the state is still doing their investigation and...

• Will the Texas Legislature Really Approve Lane Splitting?

  Brooks Schuelke | March 26, 2009 10:35 AM | 25 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Before reading this blog post, watch a portion of the video below (don't watch the entire thing or you'll get motion sickness). Did you watch it? If you did, thanks for listening. If you...

• 2 Accidents In North Texas End in Deaths

  Jeff Rasansky | September 30, 2008 3:25 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An explosion from a tractor trailer in Arlington filled the sky with flames and smoke on Monday night. The 18-wheeler exploded and formed a huge fireball on Mayfield Road at the Highway 360...

• Cyclist are people too! Share the road: it's the law.

  J. Robert Davis | May 15, 2012 7:47 PM | 0 CommentsThe Alamo City, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A visit to Grandmother’s house always includes (for me anyway) a trip to the longleaf trace with my bike. Believe me the hour and a half long drive from her house is worth the trip;...

• A Louisiana Crane Company Fined Over Safety Violations After Four Employee Deaths

  Beth Janicek | January 28, 2009 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The U.S. government wants to fine Deep South Crane and Rigging due to a crane accident that killed four employees in Houston, Texas. After an investigation that began July 18, OSHA announced that it...

• Woman Dies in Hot Air Balloon Accident

  Jenny Albano | October 09, 2007 1:39 AM | 0 CommentsBeaumont, TX Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman died in a hot air balloon crash on Monday, October 8 during an annual balloon festival in Albuquerque. The balloon tipped over after getting caught on fiberoptic line running above a power line at about 8 a.m., which sent 60 year old Rosemary Wooley Phillips to her death. She over 60 feet after falling from the hot air balloon.When the craft got caught the pilot threw down a tether to...