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On Oct. 1, a jury found that neither party was to blame for a collision that resulted in neck and back injuries for one driver.
In 2004, Christy Chaney’s car was struck by a vehicle driven by Alan Sunberg as both drivers were traveling in opposite directions on Hwy. 190 near Heidenheimer, Texas.
Chaney alleged Sunberg caused the crash when he entered her lane as he attempted to maneuver around a truck that was turning left in front of him.
On Sept. 19, a jury sided with a doctor accused of failing to prevent a patient’s heart attack.
In 2004, Phyllis Jackson, then 49, underwent a hysterectomy, which had been recommended by her doctor, Suvij Upatham.
The day after the procedure, Jackson complained of chest discomfort and tests showed an elevated heart rate. A nurse notified Upatham, who ordered a number of interventions but did not order an EKG.
FORT WORTH — A man had walked his southeast Fort Worth neighborhood for years without any problems from dogs. Until Tuesday morning.
A pit bull terrier mauled the 61-year-old man in a vacant field as he strolled home from a neighborhood convenience store.
“He charged straight at me,” the man said Wednesday afternoon from home, where he was nursing his injured hand and leg. “If there had been a rock or something, I could have done something.”
But a 76-year-old man, whom police described as a good Samaritan, came to victim’s rescue. The man heard the attack and managed to pull the dog off victim’s left arm.
The injured was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth with injuries to his left hand and right leg. He was released shortly after the incident.
MARSHALL TEXAS- The family of a man killed while working at a Texas sawmill is suing the company for alleged safety violations.
According to the complaint filed Dec. 28 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas, the man was employed at Southern Hardwood Co. on Jan. 20, 2007, when he died.
The man was making wooden boards for pallets using a board edger, when the Crosby board edger “shot back” a board into his chest.
The man was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead and the cause of death determined to be from a blunt force trauma to the chest.
LEONARD TEXAS— An ambulance collided with a car at a rural North Texas intersection, killing all three people inside the sedan.
Police in Leonard say the ambulance driver failed to see the Chevrolet Malibu before turning onto U.S. Highway 69. The car slammed into the ambulance, sending both vehicles off the road and leaving the ambulance on its side in a ditch.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Police Department will begin enforcing the Uninsured Motorist Ordinance with the start of the new year.
Approved by the Dallas City Council on May 28, the new law says that drivers who are stopped for a traffic violation and cannot provide proof of the state-required auto insurance will have their vehicle towed at the owner’s expense.
Currently, uninsured drivers in Dallas are only towed in the event of a traffic accident. The new ordinance extends towing to any traffic violations.
TEXAS-Johnson County officials are concerned about “mud” spills, the mess that some companies leave behind when waste is hauled away from drilling sites.
When trucks loaded with the mud used in the gas drilling process travel too fast along county roads, some of it spills out, and county officials are sometimes left to clean up the mess.
The Johnson County’s emergency management coordinator, said cleanup costs are mounting, and the problem is also plaguing other counties in the Barnett Shale.
The mud contains lubricants and toxic chemicals used to make the drill bit turn more easily. When mud spills onto roadways, it is like ice, sometimes leading to serious accidents.
DALLAS — Four people, including a 14-month-old toddler, died in accidents on icy roadways as a wintry storm moved through Texas over the past week.
Authorities blamed icy roads for all four traffic fatalities. In three of the four deadly accidents, Monday night and early Tuesday, the drivers of the vehicles were speeding on slick roads, officials said.
Driver fatigue is responsible for up to 40% of all accidents caused by semi-truck drivers. Data from the Deptartment of Transportation show that driver fatigue causes as many as 750 deaths and nearly 200,000 injuries on an annual basis.
Under the current rules, a driver must be allowed 10 hours off duty is he has been driving for more than 11 hours and/or has been “on duty” for up to 14 hours. In addition to this daily rule is a weekly rule that requires drivers to stop operating their truck if they have been “on-duty” for either 60 hours in a 7 day period or 70 hours in an 8 day period.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has fought unsuccesfuly to tighten these rules and avoid the driver fatigue that has caused so many accidents and injured so many people.
The family of a man who died at a San Francisco jail has filed a $10 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, saying sheriff’s officials ignored prisoners’ pleas that he needed medical help in the hours before he died.
The 48 year old man, died in his cell, a day after he was booked on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale following his arrest.
Five inmates have alleged that jail staffers did not respond to prisoners’ pleas for the man to be treated by a doctor after he complained of feeling ill.
The man’s death was listed as accidental, the result of a heart attack caused by acute drug intoxication, the medical examiner’s office said.
The wrongful-death suit filed on behalf of man’s family Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco claims that jail staffers failed to recognize that the man was undergoing opiate withdrawal. He told staffers and other inmates that he “felt like he was dying,” the suit said.
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