Category Archives: Fatal Crash
Experts Predict Surge in Labor Day Traffic Fatalities this Year
Estimates from the National Safety Council (NSC) indicate that we may experience the largest number of Labor Day auto accident fatalities in 8 years. The NSC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching ways to lower traffic fatalities, has also found that motor vehicle accident fatalities between January and June 2016 are up 9% from… Read More »
Tragedy Strikes Indianapolis Family
Tragedy struck an Indianapolis family when their pickup truck rolled over in Hooks, Texas, about 15 miles west of Texarkana. Three passengers, Belen Morales, 44, Jesus Ochoa, 49 and Isaac Morales-Ochoa, 12, were killed when they were ejected from the truck. Eyewitnesses to the accident report that the truck crossed the center line of… Read More »
Two die in Central Texas crash after city’s fatality-free year
Taylor is a Central Texas city that recorded no traffic accidents involving death last year. Near the end of the first three months of 2013, Taylor had a fatal car accident that killed two people and seriously injured a toddler. Seven people were directly affected by the car accident that Taylor police said occurred… Read More »
Texas police investigate crash that killed two young adults
Accident investigators are evidence gatherers. Police inspect car accident scenes and talk to witnesses to determine whether laws were broken. Criminal charges and prosecution may follow. Evidence of a crime is not necessary for accident victims and families to request compensation for driver negligence. An east central Texas crash involving a pair of trucks… Read More »
No seat belts for five North Texas teens killed in tanker crash
Injury accident victims know how little it takes for a driving mistake to become a crash and an accident to turn deadly. Five North Texas teenagers died when an SUV driven by a 16-year-old collided with a fuel truck and caught fire. Truck accident flames also consumed the tanker and its driver. The fatal… Read More »
Three dead after Dallas-area small plane crash
Officials still have no explanation for a fiery crash that recently killed three people outside of Dallas. A flight took off midmorning from Cox Field airport, about 100 miles from the city, and fell from the sky 11 miles into a journey to Austin. Texas Department of Public Safety investigators said three men were… Read More »
Pilot’s plane explodes in thunderstorm north of Houston
A pilot’s death in East Texas is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. Federal officials may have little evidence to explain why an aviation accident occurred less than 150 miles from the Cessna’s takeoff point in Houston. The twin-engine plane was ablaze after it slammed into a… Read More »
Plane crash kills pilot on test flight in Greater Austin
The test flight of a newly-painted Cessna 320 Skynight turned to tragedy for an elderly pilot in Greater Austin. Relatives said the victim, a farmer and aeronautical engineer, died in a plane crash on an early weekday morning near San Marcos airport. Officials are not certain why the experienced pilot crashed. Emergency responders said… Read More »
Two dead in flight lesson crash near Texas airport
Two men, a teacher and a student, died during a flight lesson near the Llano Municipal Airport, north of San Antonio. The fatal airplane accident happened when a 60-year-old instructor and his 51-year-old student were practicing “touch-and-go” maneuvers — repeated takeoffs and short landings that do not bring the aircraft to a full stop…. Read More »
Galveston tourist killed, 4 injured in suspected DUI crash
One tourist was killed and four people were hurt in a Galveston car accident on a late Saturday night. Police have charged a Conroe man with intoxication manslaughter and assault for ploughing his Infinity G35 into a horse-drawn carriage. The carriage operator was transporting a Sugarland couple to the beach following a birthday celebration… Read More »
