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16 May

How Can the City of Austin Reduce Drunk Driving Downtown?

It came as a complete shock to many when people learned that a drunk driver killed the popular Austin blogger Kelly Wayne Noel while downtown on April 26. Friends of Noel are now calling for the City of Austin to allow m...

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14 May

Medical Costs for Workers’ Comp Have Gone Down

On April 22, the Texas Department of Insurance workers’ compensation commissioner Rod Bordelon gave testimony before the Texas House Business and Industry Committee on the latest trends in workers compensation since 20...

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12 May

Are Texas Oil Companies Overworking Their Truck Drivers?

According to a Fox 7 news report, police officers from Karnes County believe that “many oil field workers are probably driving longer hours than the law allows.” The oil companies are increasing the workload on their...

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9 May

Were You Hit by a Car in a Crosswalk? You Need an Austin Injury Attorney

Even though pedestrians have the right of way in crosswalks, they are often the ones who suffer the most when a car or truck disobeys traffic laws and runs into them. [caption id="attachment_1900" align="alignright" wid...

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7 May

Suspect in Houston Bicycle Hit-and-Run Death Rearrested in Austin

According to The Houston Chronicle, a woman that allegedly injured and killed a Houston bicyclist was rearrested at her twin sister’s house in Austin on April 30. [caption id="attachment_2002" align="alignright" width...

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2 May

One Year after West, Texas Plant Blast, Still No New Safety Laws

According to the US Chemical Safety Board, the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people last year in West, Texas could have been prevented, even if it is not clear what started an initial fire that triggered the ...

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30 Apr

Drunk Driver Strikes and Kills Austin Man, Charged With Intoxicated Manslaughter

According to KXAN, a man on his way home from work was killed in a crash on April 21 by a suspected drunk driver. The victim was sitting at a stoplight on the westbound US Highway 290 service road at Springdale Road, whe...

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23 Apr

TxDOT Remembers Fallen Worker During Work Zone Awareness Week

According to The El Paso Times, dozens of Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) employees, dressed in orange safety vests, gathered on April 11 to honor one of their own. The family of a man who was hit and killed...

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21 Apr

New Study Maps Austin Bike Wrecks and Includes Austin’s Most Dangerous Streets

According to Culture Map Austin, a recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed the most dangerous streets in Austin for bicyclists. Using data from the Texas Department of Transportation, the...

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16 Apr

Pedestrian Accidents Continue to Rise in Austin: Our Attorneys Discuss the Growing Epidemic

We have been blogging about a string of pedestrian accidents occurring in the city of Austin, and the fatality count is still rising: there were two more pedestrian accidents in Austin this week. According to KXAN, thre...

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14 Apr

43-Year-Old Texas Man Killed By Heavy Equipment at Ohio Facility

According to NaturalGasIntel.com, a Texas man was crushed by a large piece of equipment and killed on April 5 at a Rice Energy Inc. drilling site in Belmont County, Ohio. The 43-year-old Victoria, Texas man was working ...

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9 Apr

Two Fatal Pedestrian Accidents in Two Weeks: Another Victim Hit and Killed While Walking on Lamar Boulevard

Last week, we blogged about a pedestrian that was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on North Lamar; this week, another pedestrian was killed while crossing the street on the south side of Lamar Boulevard. Acco...

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4 Apr

Pedestrian on North Lamar Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver

According to KXAN, Austin police are looking for the driver who struck and killed a man walking on North Lamar Boulevard near Payton Gin Road on March 24 just after 9 p.m. Witnesses to the accident said the driver was in...

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28 Mar

Driver Strikes and Kills 12-Year-Old Boy Riding Bike in Buchanan Dam

According to KXAN, a young boy riding his bike died after being struck by a car in a Buchanan Dam neighborhood. The Department of Public Safety reported that the crash occurred around 8:20 p.m. on March 18 on State Highw...

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26 Mar

Baylor University Construction Worker’s Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

According to The Waco Tribune, the family of a construction worker killed in January while working on Baylor University’s new football stadium has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university and several const...

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