A Dallas pickup driver entered the Dallas North Tollway in the wrong direction and crashed into an SUV driven by a 16-year-old in Frisco.

In a story published the Dallas Morning News, we learned that 24-year-old Mariza Martinez entered the southbound Dallas Tollway lanes driving north and slammed into Kara Taylor, 16. Taylor was killed in the pickup truck wreck, and her 15-year-old friend suffered minor injuries.

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Felix Badillo Tapia of Brownsville, Texas has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge over a bus crash on Interstate 40 that killed four people near Little Rock, Arkansas.

The bus that Tapia was driving slammed into a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer, killing three bus passengers and the pickup’s driver. Twenty others were injured.

Investigators in the case couldn’t prove that drugs Tapia had in his possession at the time of the November 2007 accident were illegal or that he was intoxicated at the time. Tapia has previously faced felony charges, and will serve one year in jail and will pay a $1,000 fine from this case.

Two families filed a lawsuit against an errant truck driver who crashed his big rig into a line of cars on Interstate Highway 55 near Plainfield, Minnesota.

Two people were killed and another was seriously injured. Families involved filed lawsuits, claiming that the accident was the result of negligence on part of the truck driver. They also accused the freight broker who engaged the driver.

“Both parties in this case are responsible for the deaths and injuries to the drivers as well as the passengers hit by the truck”, claimed the personal injury lawyer for the families affected. “This has resulted in irreparable loss and damage to the families and the persons responsible should pay for it.”

The court accepted the arguments, and heavily punished freight contractor C.H. Robinson of Minnesota and De An Henry, the truck driver from Utah.