Police arrested a 29-year-old man in Conroe, Texas Monday evening after he allegedly abandoned his infant son after a rollover accident in July. James Williams Hammons, Jr. has been charged with a number of charges, which include child abandonment, driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 years of age and felony failure to stop [...]
A third person has died from the suspected drunken driver crash in Austin during this year's South by Southwest festival. Sandy Thuy Le, 26, died from injuries she sustained from being run over while outside The Mohawk music club early Thursday morning. Austin police say the driver of the vehicle, Rashad Owens, was fleeing police [...]
Four Hospitalized After Car Crashes into Home Four people were hospitalized last week when a car crashed through a Carrolton, TX home. A car crashed through two fences and into the back of the home around 3:30 p.m. last Thursday. Three people were in the house at the time, a mother and her two children. [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended May 14 that a decade-old benchmark for determining drunkenness should be lowered in all 50 states in an effort to reduce drunk-driving deaths. United States Safety Investigators recommended that the threshold be lowered from .08 to .05 to determine when a driver is drunk. This is part of a [...]
TxDOT Urges Drivers to Get a Summer P.A.S.S. (via PR Newswire) AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Summer, a time for fun and celebration. But it also brings many alcohol-related crash fatalities. Because of this, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is launching its first summer drinking and driving outreach program [...]
Round Rock, Texas: A few years ago a Texas man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of his ninth DWI. A Texas judge decided that rather than chance him remaining in public and seriously injuring someone, it was safer and better to remove him from society. Bobby Stovall, 54, was driving in [...]