According to the Texas Department of Transportation, there were 826 accidents involving wrong-way drivers in Texas last year.

Wrong-way car accidents involve drivers driving in the opposite direction of traffic.  Most often, wrong-way accidents occur when a driver crosses over the center line, goes the wrong way down a one-way street, or enters on a highway’s exit ramp.

The Texas Transportation Institute says that wrong-way car accidents often involve alcohol or drugs.  In addition, researchers found that wrong-way accidents most often occur between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. and in the left lane of a highway.

This year, there have been 492 wrong-way accidents in the state.  46 of these accidents involved fatalities.

To speak with an experienced injury attorney if you or someone you love has been injured in an accident caused by a reckless driver, contact the Waco reckless driving lawyers of The Law Office of Vic Feazell, P.C. at 877-948-4842 today.

Contaminated cantaloupe have been linked to 13 deaths and 72 illness.  The recalled cantaloupes were produced at Jensen Farms in Colorado and sold to stores in 24 states between July 29 and September 10.

Investigators linked the cantaloupes to an outbreak of listeria bacteria and cases of listeriosis in 18 states, including Texas.  Officials estimate the number of deaths and illnesses will continue to increase as their investigations into the contaminated cantaloupe continue.

Listeriosis has a latency period of up to 4 weeks.  People infected by the bacteria will exhibit symptoms like muscle aches, digestive problems, and fever.

The median age of people who have reported becoming ill from the contaminated food product is 78-years old.  The illness is most likely to affect the elderly and people with weakened immune systems.

Last week, an elderly woman was wrongfully killed in a car accident in Waco.  The 2-vehicle accident was reported to have occurred at one of the city’s busiest intersections.

The accident occurred last Wednesday afternoon at New Road and Bagby Avenue.  According to police reports, a vehicle carrying a husband and wife was hit by a pickup truck traveling southbound as the 83-year old husband and driver attempted to turn left.

The 83-year old driver was injured in the accident and taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center for treatment.  His 81-year old wife was pronounced dead at the scene of the car accident.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family after this devastating accident.

A recent truck accident in East Texas is believed to have been caused by truck driver negligence.  The accident occurred near Mineola last week when a truck driver ran a red light.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials reported that the tanker truck was driving eastbound on Highway 69 when a car with a green light hit the truck.  The car was coming from northbound Loop 564.

The car struck the tanker truck’s fuel tanks which caused them to catch fire.  The truck continued traveling down the highway before coming to a stop off the south side of the road.

Paramedics took the car’s 65-year old driver to Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas for treatment of unspecified injuries .  The truck driver was also injured in the accident and was treated at East Texas Medical Center Hospital.

Contact the Waco truck driver negligence lawyers of The Law Offices of Vic Feazell, P.C. at 877-948-4842 today, if you or someone you love has been injured in an accident caused by a truck driver’s negligent actions.

A new law in Texas called “Natasha’s Law” aims at protecting student athletes from concussions and other serious brain injuries.  Statistics show that about 67,000 high school athletes suffer concussions playing sports for their school every year.

The law requires coaches and other officials to have student athletes who have suffered a concussion to sit out of practices and games for at least 1 day.  Under “Natasha’s Law,” student athletes with concussions are not allowed to return to practicing or competing until they have received a physician’s approval.

The law is named after Natasha Helmick — a high school soccer player who suffered her first concussion when she was 14.  Helmick says she could only see out of one eye after getting hit in the head, but returned to play in the game because she wanted to help her team and “was thinking in the heat of the moment … and that is just how athletes think.”  She continues to suffer from headaches and has difficulty concentrating after having a total of 4 concussions.

If you or a loved one has suffered a concussion as the result of another party’s negligence, contact the Waco concussion lawyers of The Law Offices of Vic Feazell, P.C. at 877-948-4842 to learn more about your rights.

The Federal Aviation Administration recently released a study that says that automated flight systems are causing pilots to lose their ability to fly. The study used data from 9,000 flights, 46 serious airplane accidents, and 734 reports from pilots.

In analyzing this data, FAA officials found that more than 60 percent of plane crashes involved a pilot’s inability to manually operate the plane or an error made using the automated system. The most common problems involved pilots failing to recognize that an automated system had failed and a pilot’s inability to recover from an automated system problem. The FAA suggests that there needs to be more opportunities for pilots to practice manually operating an aircraft.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a plane crash caused by pilot error, contact the Waco pilot error lawyers of The Law Offices of Vic Feazell, P.C. at 877-948-4842 to set up an appointment to speak with one of our attorneys.

Earlier this month, a husband and wife from Amarillo were involved in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident.  State police are searching for the driver that struck the couple’s motorcycle.

The driver, traveling in a maroon Chevrolet or GMC pickup truck, was reported to have failed to yield the right of way at a stop sign when he struck the 37- and 36-year old motorcyclists.  The accident occurred at the intersection of Loop 335 and Tradewind Street at around 9:30 p.m.

The pickup continued driving after hitting the motorcyclists.  Both motorcyclists were taken to Northwest Texas Hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.  One of the motorcyclists later passed away at the hospital.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims’ family and friends after this devastating accident.

Over the weekend, 2 construction workers working in New York became trapped in an elevator that filled with water.

Shortly after getting on the elevator, the 2 men realized that the elevator’s doors would not open.  The workers pushed the buttons for several floors hoping that the doors would open when it stopped at one of the floors.

On the basement level, the elevator stopped and began to fill with water, pushing the elevator to the bottom of the shaft.  The building the men were working at had experienced flooding due to heavy rainfall on Sunday.

The men called for help and firefighters arrived at the building to rescue them about an hour later.  By this time, the water was only 3 feet from the elevator’s ceiling.  Then men stood on a plastic cart they were using to carry supplies and the water still reached up to their necks.

Fortunately, the men were able to escape unharmed with the help of the firefighters.

Elevators can malfunction in a variety of different ways and cause accidents that can cause serious injury or even death.  If you or someone you love has been injured in an elevator or escalator accident, contact the Waco elevator & escalator injuries lawyers of The Law Offices of Vic Feazell, P.C. at 877-948-4842 to learn more about how we can help you.

A toddler from Upshur County was recently transferred to Dallas Children’s Hospital to recover from injuries she suffered in a dog attack.

The 2-year old girl was visiting a house located in between Pritchett and Gilmer when the attack occurred.  According to the girl’s family, the dog appeared to be asleep, but when the toddler walked by it jumped at her and bit her lip and forehead.

The family says the the toddler had spent time with the dog on separate occasions before the day of the attack.

Doctors at the hospital performed surgery to repair the toddler’s lip.  Stitches may be needed to treat the bite on the her forehead.

The 2-year old pitbull that attacked the 2-year old has been seized and quarantined.  Officials have not decided what will happen to the dog or its owners.

To discuss the steps to take if you or someone you love has been bit or attacked by a someone else’s dog, contact the Waco dog bite attorneys of The Law Offices of Vic Feazell P.C. by calling 877-948-4842 today.

Last Wednesday, a construction worker was killed in a tragic accident at a construction site at the Thermon Manufacturing property in San Marcos.  Construction is being done at the site to build a new manufacturing plant.

At the site, construction workers were working on a pre-engineered metal building when it collapsed.  The building fell on three of the construction workers at the site.

Emergency crews were able to help two of the workers out from underneath the fallen building.  One of the construction workers was pronounced dead at the scene of the construction accident.

Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be investigating the cause of this tragic wrongful death accident.

Our utmost sympathies go out to the victim’s family and friends.