Automobile Accidents

• Deadly Weekend For Austin Car Wrecks

  Brooks Schuelke | March 03, 2008 8:56 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This weekend was another sobering reminder about the risk of auto accidents on Austin's roads. Yesterday, a teenager died in a car wreck on Texas 71 near Bee Creek. This is one of the most dangerous stretches of road in town. Since October 2006, eleven people have died in auto accidents on this two mile stretch. In fact, Austin news station KXAN ran a story just last week talking about the...

• Learn From Sergio Kindle --- Don't Text And Drive

  Brooks Schuelke | June 27, 2009 10:58 PM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  Everyone that knows me knows that I'm a huge University of Texas fan. That's why I was so dismayed tonight to see that Texas star linebacker/defensive end Sergio Kindle suffered a concussion when he...

• Ice Storm Causes Multi-Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | January 17, 2007 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Due to icy road conditions a car slid on U.S. 183 by McNeil Drive creating a multi-car pile-up. No one was seriously injured.The first car started the accident after sliding on the ice. It was rear-ended causing a chain reaction of at least 3 cars. "Everything happened very slowly. It was really scary," said Jose Gonzalez, a passenger in a blue 1998 GMC truck involved in the crash. Gonzalez...

• Do You Have A Teen Driver? Make Them Watch This Today Show Video On The Dangers of Texting While Driving

  Brooks Schuelke | June 26, 2009 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  As parents, our job, I think, is to be repetitive on all the lessons that we're supposed to teach our kids that they refuse to learn. Although my kids aren't old enough for constant texting to be an...

• Wrong Way Drivers Causing A Rash of Traffic Fatalities In Dallas And Austin

  Brooks Schuelke | June 22, 2009 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  It's one of those things that's almost too bizarre to be true. This weekend, four people were killed in a wreck caused by a wrong way driver on the Dallas North Tollway. The wreck occurred despite...

• Live From San Antonio --- Bus Driver Text Messaging While Driving

  Brooks Schuelke | April 30, 2009 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  I've posted before about the dangers of text messaging while driving, but pictures or videos are much better forms of media to convey the risks. And as you might have heard, a San Antonio bus driver...

• Deadly Weekend Due To Austin Car Wrecks

  Brooks Schuelke | December 21, 2008 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  School let out last Thursday signaling the beginning of the holiday season. Unfortunately, the holiday season got off to a deadly start. Friday afternoon and evening, there were two car wrecks that...

• Is The Dallas North Tollway Doing Enough To Stop Deadly Wrong-Way Wrecks?

  Brooks Schuelke | July 28, 2009 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that the Dallas North Tollway has been the site of numerous deadly wrong-way wrecks in the last few months. As I reported yesterday, earlier this...

• Chiropractors Soliciting Car Wreck Victims For Attorneys

  Brooks Schuelke | March 08, 2008 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This week, Allstate Insurance Company filed a suit in a Texas US District Court against 67 defendants, including chiropractors and law firms, alleging that they were improperly soliciting car wreck victims as clients. Under Texas law, personal injury lawyers are limited in their abilities to contact victims of car wrecks. To get around this limitation, some unscrupulous attorneys have...

• Street Racing Leads To Car Wrecks

  Brooks Schuelke | March 04, 2008 8:28 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This week, the Austin American Statesman posted an article that discussed the increase in car wrecks due to street racing. The problem of street racing really came into focus nationwide in February when 8 observers were kill in Maryland when a drag racing car wreck spilled over into the crowd. But street racing isn't just a problem in Maryland. It's also a big issue in Texas. The National...