Dallas Cowboys football player Josh Brent now faces a Sept. 23 trial on a charge of intoxication manslaughter after he was involved in a Dallas car accident that killed his teammate Jerry Brown. The Dallas drunk driving accident occurred on Dec. 8 when Brent was driving with Brown as a passenger. The accident happened when the speeding car flipped at …
Toddler Killed in Texas School Bus Accident
An 18-month-old from Tyler, TX was killed in a recent Texas school bus accident. The fatal car accident occurred when witnesses say the little girl got out of the gate in her front yard and walked out in front of the school bus while it was unloading passengers. Bystanders began banging on the side of the bus in an attempt …
Texas Police Chase Ends in Intersection Crash
One person was hospitalized after a recent police chase in Fort Worth ended in an intersection crash. The police chased the speeding car through residential neighborhoods until the car flew through a red light, past a group of pedestrians and finally hit a tree in someone’s yard before the driver was ejected from the vehicle. Police are still not sure …
Car Crash Results in 7 Fatalities
On Wednesday, seven people died in a head-on collision near the Texas-Oklahoma border. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, a Chevrolet Suburban traveling a high speed cut across the center line of Highway 412 and crashed into a van carrying employees of a Texas meatpacking plant. Both drivers and five van passengers were killed instantly. One survivor was airlifted to …
RV Crash Leads to Wrongful Death Case
Recently a widow filed a lawsuit stating defendants caused a recreational vehicle to lose control, and block a highway, leading to a car accident that killed her husband. Roberta Leyendecker filed a lawsuit on July 6 at Jefferson County District Court against the Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance, Gordon and Jerry Buchleiter, and Cynthia and Larry Chandler. The lawsuit states …
Texas Widow Files Wrongful Death Case Against TXI
Texas Industries is being sued by a Texas widow for allegedly requesting her husband take a drug test immediately after falling during a fatal work accident, instead of calling an ambulance. Her husband, Benino Perez, had worked at the cement and construction company for 38 years and was only two weeks away from retiring when the accident happened. He was …
Hotel Housekeeper Falls to Death in Elevator Shaft
Last December, a 65-year-old housekeeper at the Crockett Hotel in San Antonio fell to her death six stories down an elevator shaft. There was a state investigation on the incident, and the findings were recently released. The chief elevator inspector with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Lawrence Taylor, said it seems like Gloria Rodriguez backed into a service …
DWI Convict Goes Back to Jail for Refusing to Apologize
DWI convict Michael Giacona who hit a black Mustang and killed the driver Aaron Pennywell said he would rather go back to jail than apologize to Pennywell’s parents for killing their son while he was intoxicated. Giacona pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI in January and was sentenced to a year in jail. After 90 days he was granted “shock probation”, …
Seawall DWI Crash Kills 2 Pedestrians and a Dog
Two men and their dog were killed as they walked on the Seawall in Galveston. Matthew Shelton, 27, was charged with two counts of intoxication manslaughter, said Lt. Michael Gray of the Galveston Police Department. Shelton was westbound on Seawall Boulevard at 13th Street when he lost control of his vehicle and hit the pedestrians who were taking their dog …
Drunk Driver Lead to Wrongful Death of Mother and Daughter
A mother and her 10-year-old daughter were killed in San Antonio last month when their car was hit by a drunk-driving suspect who was twice convicted of driving while intoxicated. The mother and daughter were waiting in their car while her fiancé was fixing the car’s flat tire on the eastbound shoulder of Interstate 10. The Jeep Cherokee ran into …
