Single-vehicle accidents account for 34.5% of all accident fatalities in Texas.
According to a Kens5 News report, two teenagers and one dog are dead following a single-vehicle accident last week on July 12, 2023, in Sugien.
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According to a Fox 29 news report, a late-night rollover accident in South Texas left one Louisianna woman and her unborn child dead after their vehicle struck an alligator in the road.
Failure to yield the right of way is a common cause of auto accidents across Texas.
A man and a woman were killed in a side-impact collision on Sunday, July 2, 2023, according to a San Antonio Express-News report.
Rollover accidents often have tragic consequences.
According to a San Antonio Express-News report, a 19-year-old died, and his two passengers were injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident on July 2, 2023.
Head-on collisions often have tragic consequences.
A fatal crash occurred at around 7 a.m. Monday, June 19, 2023, on the 900 block of Highway 87 North, according to a KENS5 news report.
Road rage is a serious problem for Texas drivers.
According to a San Antonio Express-News report, Darwin Gamez, 26, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after turning himself in to the police on June 18, 2023. The man he reportedly shot was an unidentified 36-year-old man in a white sedan outside of a car dealership on the 8300 block of Bandera Road, according to the police report. He was wounded in the shoulder and was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Gamez’s bail is set at $75,000, and police are investigating the matter as a possible case of road rage.
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A woman identified as forty-two-year-old Corina Huerta was killed in a pedestrian accident while walking to her car, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The woman was walking to her car in a downtown parking lot on Brooklyn Avenue and Dallas Street when she was pinned between two vehicles on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The driver stopped at attempted to help the woman, who later died of her injuries at the hospital. According to the report, the police determined the driver was not intoxicated at the time of the crash.
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A 22-year-old man is dead after being hit head-on by a wrong-way driver at around 1 a.m. on May 30, 2023, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The 39-year-old wrong-way driver was arrested and charged with intoxicated manslaughter, as well as two counts of driving while intoxicated with a child under 15, and two counts of injury to a child causing bodily injury-reckless, as he had two children in the pickup with him at the time. All of them were transported to the hospital with minor injuries after the crash, and the 22-year-old died of his injuries at the hospital.
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Thursday night, on May 25, 2023, a woman was hit and killed by a vehicle when crossing the street on the 1600 block of Pleasanton Road on the South Side of San Antonio, according to a San Antonio Express-News report. The driver stopped to render aid and called emergency services, and there are no charges against him at this time. Then, Friday morning at around 6:30 a.m., a fatal accident shut down four lanes of I-10 on the Far East Side of San Antonio. No further information was provided for this accident, except that there was at least one fatality.
High-speed accidents almost always end in serious injuries.
According to a Click 2 Houston news report, a 26-year-old woman is dead, and four children are in critical condition after losing control of her vehicle at around 11:30 p.m. on May 22, 2023, on I-45 in La Marque. Galveston police reported that the woman was speeding on I-45 when she struck the wall and flipped multiple times before falling off the bridge and onto the roadway below. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and the four children, 3 and 6 years old, are in the hospital in critical condition. It is unclear if the children were properly buckled or in car seats at the time of the crash.
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