Automobile Accidents

• For The Love Of Your Child, Please Use A Car Or Booster Seat

  Brooks Schuelke | January 26, 2009 10:09 AM | 2 CommentsAustin, TX

  I received a twitter note (you can follow me @bschuelke) this morning from a local news station (@KXAN for you twitterers) saying that an unrestrained child was ejected and killed in a car wreck...

• Road Risks Rise As More Drop Car Insurance

  Brooks Schuelke | December 19, 2008 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a great article describing how hundreds of thousands of drivers are dropping their auto insurance as a result of the weakening economy. What does that mean for...

• McCain's Straight Talk Express Crashed! Should We Take Away The Keys of the Elderly?

  Brooks Schuelke | August 08, 2008 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  After reading yesterday's post about the crash of the Straight Talk Express, someone jokingly asked me whether the elderly should be driving. In reality, at the time of the wreck, McCain obviously...

• Other Loose Objects or Unsecured Loads Causing Car Wrecks

  Brooks Schuelke | April 30, 2008 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Yesterday's post about stray tires causing car wrecks made me think back to my own youth. On the last day of school of my junior year of high school, I was driving south on I-35 between Austin and...

• Some Mildly Good News For Texas Car Wreck Victims

  Brooks Schuelke | April 17, 2008 8:43 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Those of us who practice personal injury law in Texas don't normally get any good news from the Texas legislature. But we did receive a small nugget last session. Effective April 1, the minimum...

• 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...

• Hit and Run Victim Identified

  Brooks Schuelke | October 24, 2007 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Police today identified a 16 year old victim of a weekend hit and run car wreck. It doesn't appear that they have many leads, but with any luck, someone with information will step forward.This latest incident follows two motorcycle hit and run wrecks in June, an August hit and run wrongful death, and an unusual stabbing hit and run earlier this month. For more information on this subject,...

• Austin Man Convicted of Murder for Drunk Driving Death

  Brooks Schuelke | September 27, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Not completely personal injury news, but for the second time in a month, an Austin driver was sentenced to prison based on a murder charge for a death caused by the driver's drunk driving. Earlier this month, in the first trial of its kind in Travis County, a jury convicted the drunk driver and sentenced him to fifty years in prison. Yesterday's case was a result of a plea bargain that...

• Video Showing Forces Imparted In Auto Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | September 25, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Marietta, Georgia personal injury lawyer Matt Flournoy has posted a video on YouTube that shows some of the forces that are imparted in even a "minor" car wreck. While you might find the editing of the video (and its numerous inserts of text) annoying, it does have some decent information.Thanks to Lowell Steiger's Los Angeles Personal Injury Law Blog for the link. For more information on this...