Automobile Accidents

• More Austin Trucking Accident Dangers

  Brooks Schuelke | February 19, 2008 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  It is no secret that trucking traffic and trucking accidents are a major problem in Austin and Central Texas. Interstate 35 is routinely one of the most heavily traveled stretches of highway in the country. A large part of that has to do with NAFTA and international trade with Mexico. The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M has provided quite a bit of information on Texas trucking...

• Using an Accident Reconstruction Expert In A Car Wreck Case

  Brooks Schuelke | January 25, 2008 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  California personal injury attorney John Bisnar has an interesting post about the importance of hiring an accident reconstruction expert when the accident reports are not filled out properly. Like John, and probably most personal injury lawyers, I've found accident reconstruction experts helpful in combatting report errors. But accident reconstruction experts are also helpful in other...

• A New Car Wreck Risk for Austin Drivers?

  Brooks Schuelke | December 18, 2007 8:54 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Last night, Capital Metro began testing the cars for our new passenger rail system. While the system has the potential to take drivers off the road, new systems always carry a concern that they may lead to many more car wrecks. Houston is a case in point. The most recent major Texas city to add light rail, Houston made national news with the number of auto accidents involving the system. ...

• Texas Toughens Stance On Uninsured Motorists

  Brooks Schuelke | December 11, 2007 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  The Dallas Morning News posted a story yesterday describing Texas's new efforts to reduce the number of uninsured drivers. Under the plan, the state has created and will maintain a database of drivers and their insurance status. Whenever a person is pulled over, is involved in a wreck, gets a car inspection or registers for new license tags, the appropriate authority will check the database to...

• Troopers Recreate Car Wreck Scenes

  Brooks Schuelke | November 27, 2007 8:10 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Yesterday's Tyler Morning Telegraph from Tyler, Texas had an interesting story about how DPS Troopers conduct investigations so that they can do accident reconstruction work following a car wreck or trucking accident. Accident reconstruction work used to be done by hand --- from the measuring with tape measures to the calculations. Now, technology is making it easier to collect the data and...

• New Flimsy Bumpers Can't Survive Car Wrecks

  Brooks Schuelke | November 23, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety describes how new, flimsy bumper designs can lead to excessive damages following auto accidents. The article almost exclusively focuses on the property damage that results from the new style of bumpers, but one has to wonder what, if any, these new designs have on the actual safety of the vehicles.For more information on this subject,...

• Grim Reminder of Bicycling Fatalities

  Brooks Schuelke | November 20, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Recently, Austin's KVUE news ran a story about ghostbikes in Austin. The white bikes are chained to telephone poles and street signs to mark a spot where a bicyclist was killed in a car wreck. I found this particularly interesting since the most visible bike is only a few blocks from our office, and I had never known what the bike signified.Car wrecks involving bicyclists has long been a...

• Lessons From A Car Wreck

  Brooks Schuelke | November 19, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Last month, Carlos Aleman and his seeing eye dog were walking home from an Austin library when a teenager, who has admitted that he was driving too fast to impress someone, veered off the road and hit them both. The dog, despite sustaining serious injuries himself, ran back to the library to fetch Diane Bomar, Mr. Aleman's fiance, to help him. Mr. Aleman and Ms. Bomar each learned a lesson...

• Another Austin Hit and Run Fatality

  Brooks Schuelke | November 15, 2007 3:30 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  We posted last month on a rash of hit-and-run auto accidents here in Austin, and now the problem continues. This weekend, we had another hit-and-run car wreck that left two motorcyclists dead. Fortunately, police arrested a suspect yesterday. According to one witness, the suspect driver, who has a previous DWI on his record, appeared intoxicated shortly after the wreck.

• New Tactic in War Against Auto Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | November 14, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Last week, the Austin City Council voted to install cameras at various intersections around town to try and reduce the number of people running red lights. The vote comes following a pilot program where the city installed two cameras to determine what type of results they would obtain. And the results were amazing. A light installed at the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd and I35...