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A tragic accident in San Antonio, Texas took the lives of two truck drivers. For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Tractor-trailer accidents.

When you are involved in an accident, preserving evidence can be extremely vital to your claim. Names and contact information for witnesses, photographs, keeping a defective product such as a tire, seatbelt, or smoke alarm, can prove important in pursuing a negligence case.Preserving evidence may clear a man of a 1982 Dallas rape. Had the evidence not been collected when the incident occurred...

With the Crocs craze in full swing, a potential danger has surfaced involving Crocs and escalators. It has been reported recently that accidents causing foot injuries are on the rise. Many of these accidents have involving Crocs and other soft rubber sole shoes becoming caught in escalators. Escalators have long been a cause of hand and foot injuries even before Crocs. "I don't know if...

The head of the Hilton clan, Barron Hilton, has decided to disinherit all of his grandchildren. He is particularly "embarrassed by how the Hilton name has been sullied by Paris." He has chosen, instead, to leave his fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

Driving while intoxicated is a leading factor contributing to fatal collisions in Texas, according to the National Highway Trafic Safety Administration. A DPS spokesman, Tom Vinger, says that the DPS writes more tickets and arrest more drunk drivers during holiday weekends.Impaired driving is a contributing factor in nearly half of all Texas fatal traffic accidents, according to the National...

More and more often texting is being cited as a potential cause of automobile accidents. Often, but not always, these accidents involve teens. Not only does texting require two hands, it also requires considerable attention which is diverted from task related to driving. At least one state, California, is considering passing laws prohibiting texting while driving.For more information on this...

A Victoria firefighter was injured last week when responding to a house fire on Walnut Ave. Authorities say the fire started when the engine of a car parked in the carport overheated.The home is owned by Ernest and Eva Studer. Attempts to reach them Thursday were unsuccessful.Ernestine Fletcher, the renter who was rescued by two teenage brothers from the backyard near her apartment, received...

181 Chinese miners have been trapped since Friday in a mining accident when a dike on a nearby river burst and sent water flooding into the mine and trapping the miners. Other victims were trapped in a nearby shaft in the Huayuan Mining Co. mine.According to media reports, rescuers have worked desperately since the dike breakage to pump out water that has poured into the mine from the river....

According to a new study in the Journal of American Psychiatry, the decreased use of SSRI prescriptions and the record increase of teen suicides from 2003 and 2004 may be linked.The number of SSRI prescriptions for pediatric depression (ages 5 to 18) tumbled more than 50 percent between 2003 and 2005. In a troubling parallel development, the number of teen suicides jumped a record 18 percent...

Proponents of tort-reform would have you believe the debate is about frivolous lawsuits. It's really about corporate responsibility and who, if anyone, will be held accountable when American consumers are defrauded, injured or killed as a result of someone else's negligence.Big businesses continue to finance a massive public relations effort lobbying legislators for more tort-reform measures....