InjuryBoard Victoria Archives

• Truck accident kills two

  Wanda Logan | September 20, 2007 5:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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.

• Preserving Evidence is Vital

  Wanda Logan | September 20, 2007 4:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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...

• Escalator Accidents/Injuries Involving Crocs

  Mike Parker | September 19, 2007 10:50 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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...

• Paris Hilton Disinherited

  David Coffey | September 17, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  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.

• Fatalities largely caused by impaired drivers

  Chuck Cole | September 12, 2007 5:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Texting and Automobile Accidents

  Jim Cole | September 11, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Defective Automobile Starts Victoria House Fire

  Will Sciba | September 10, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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...