With the new administration should come to a new federal infrastructure package, complete with a thorough consultation and complete reform of the American infrastructure system, according to a report released by the Kinder Institute. The report was co-authored by William Fulton and Henry Cisneros. Fulton is the director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an undeniable and significant ripple effect in many aspects of our daily life. But one unanticipated result of the pandemic is the increase in car accidents involving roadside work zones. Despite fewer cars on the road, there has been an alarming increase in both work zone crashes and fatalities resulting […]
Texas roads have not seen a deathless day since 2000, and Houston has also long been plagued with car accidents, even dubbed the deadliest driving city in America by the Houston Chronicle. But Houston government officials state that they have a plan to end road fatalities within the next decade. In December of 2020, Mayor […]
Booster seats are meant to keep children safe as they ride in the car, elevating them so that the adult-sized seatbelts in the backseat better fit their small bodies. But recent reports show that manufacturers may not actually be doing their part to ensure these seats are safe. On December 10th, a congressional subcommittee released […]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that about a quarter of vehicles have an unrepaired recall, and last year there were 53 million recalls on vehicles and vehicle-related equipment. Every day, hundreds of thousands of automobiles with recalled parts get on the road, putting the drivers and passengers of those vehicles and other motorists at […]
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it. With many businesses restricted and a large portion of the population working from home, the roads have been freer than ever. The general assumption was that with the decrease in traffic would come a decrease in car accidents, and therefore a drop in traffic […]
The National Safety Council projects that 38,800 people lost their lives nationwide in car accidents last year. Roughly 6,500 of them were pedestrians, an increase of 5% from the year before. This translates to two pedestrian fatalities per every 100,000 people, and is the highest pedestrian death toll the nation has seen in three decades. […]
As any Houston Texas resident knows, driving in H-Town is not for the faint of heart. In fact, Houston has some of the worst traffic and some of the most dangerous roads and drivers in the country, according to state and federal traffic safety experts. With car accidents being so common in the Houston Metro […]
Texas has an “at-fault” insurance system that comes into play when you have a car accident. But what does that mean for your car accident claim? Well, in simple terms, it means that when an accident happens, someone is usually considered responsible or “at-fault” for causing it. This person’s insurance company is responsible for paying […]
Anyone injured in an accident as a passenger in a rideshare vehicle in Texas will likely assume he or she can sue the rideshare company (e.g., Lyft, Uber or other) for the driver’s negligence that caused the crash. The little-known truth is that rideshare companies such as Uber and Lyft will argue that the driver […]