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Austin suffered its 12th traffic fatality in March when Betty Louise Scott, 35, was killed in a collision at North IH 35 and East US Hwy 290 at the end of March. The preliminary investigation shows that a blue Oldsmobile was traveling eastbound on US Hwy 290 and a silver Toyota Camry was traveling southbound on IH 35. Evidently, one of the vehicles ran the red light causing the collision in the intersection. Scott was ejected from the Oldsmobile and…

Why Hire a LawyerHouston police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in the 6100 block of Aldine Bender which occurred on a Saturday, early last month. Reports say a female pedestrian in her late 20s to early 30s, was walking westbound in the 6100 block of Aldine Bender when she was struck by an unknown dark-colored vehicle. The vehicle is described only as a dark-colored Mercury van. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identity is pending verification by…

Pablo Garcia, a 53-year-old longshoreman from Lakewood, CA, was struck and killed as he worked at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California last month. This marks the third such fatality in local ports since April of 2008. The Saturday evening death at the Evergreen facility again broaches the issues of safety and on local docks. Local Long Beach officials reportedly are pressing for vehicular manslaughter charges against another longshoreman who plowed his yard tractor – allegedly drunk – into trucker…

As he walked behind a truck, a an oil and gas “swamper” tripped as the truck was backing up with a load and was killed when the vehicle drove over him, reports say. The workplace accident occurred in June when a drilling rig was being moved to another site. With approximately ten loads remaining to transport off the site, a pole truck driver and his helper – or swamper — were relocating a grated landing. A sling had been secured…

The driver of a black, four-door Dodge traveling north on Briarpark Drive at a high rate of speed crossed the southbound lanes of traffic and struck a business and two victims were left dead in March. The victims, a male and female inside the vehicle, were pronounced dead at the scene. The male driver, 26, and two other male passengers in the vehicle were transported to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. The investigation is continuing, but charges have been filed against…