Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Singer Emilio Navaira Critically Injured in Bus Crash

  Jenny Albano | March 23, 2008 5:46 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured on Sunday after his band's bus crashed on a highway in Houston.Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, the band's bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire...

• Family of Man Killed in Bus Accident Sues Company, Driver

  Jenny Albano | January 16, 2008 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  The family of a man who was killed in a recent bus crash near Victoria is suing the bus owner, the operator and the driver of the vehicle. Pedro Mendez was killed during the accident that occurred on January 2 that seriously injured many other passengers. The bus was headed to Houston from Monterrey, Mexico.The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Harris County District Court, alleges three companies...

• Truck and Tour Bus Collide, Killing One and Injuring Many Others

  Jenny Albano | January 02, 2008 8:06 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  A Mexican tour bus collided with a truck on Wednesday, January 2, killing one and injuring several others. The charter bus, carrying almost 50 passengers, veered off the highway and then over-corrected, which caused the bus to tip over onto its side. Then, once the bus had crashed on U.S. 59 near Victoria, a pickup truck collided with the overturned bus. The driver of the pickup was not...

• Fatal SUV Accident On I-45 South

  Robert Binstock | September 13, 2006 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Shortly before 8:00 am this morning, my cell phone rang and a friend alerted me to what I already suspected based on the brake lights I was seeing in all five lanes of I-45 North near Spring-Stuebner Road. Yet another major automobile accident on this well-traveled interstate highway was delaying commuters from Montgomery County and adding at least an hour to the daily trip to downtown Houston....

• Fire Truck Accident Stalls Houston Traffic

  Robert Binstock | September 07, 2006 2:34 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Luckily no firefighters were seriously injured last week when a fire truck crashed on its way to a house fire, which turned out to be a false alarm. The truck accident stalled traffic in downtown Houston, and one firefighter suffered a shoulder injury in the wreck. Three others who were on the truck escaped injury but were taken to the hospital as a precaution.The driver of the fire truck was on...