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Archive for the ‘Side-Impact Collision’ Category

32 Children Sent to Hospital in School Bus Crash

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

On January 17th, a school bus from Academy, TX, which was carrying 38 children from all grade levels, was clipped by a hardware truck.  The school bus flipped onto its side after the hardware truck ran a stop sign.

The accident occurred in the early morning at the intersection of FM 93 and FM 95, which is near the outskirts of Temple, Texas.

32 people (29 of them were children) were sent to the hospital.  A 9 year old was ejected during the wreck and the school bus driver was knocked unconscious.  Three of the children were admitted to the hospital and one was listed in critical condition.

Academy school Superintendent, Kevin Sprinkles, stated that all the children were expected to recover, but that “they all face a long road” to recovery.

A passerby, Christina Mendoza, told the Temple Daily Telegram:  “There was a bunch of little ones all scraped up, and they were all alone.”

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Texas woman killed in truck wreck

Monday, September 28th, 2009

A Bryan, Texas woman was killed last week when she lost control of her vehicle and ended up in the path of an on-coming 18-wheeler.

According to a story published on the Navasota Examiner’s website Nickie Lynn Pittman of Bryan, 38, was on her way to teach an English class at Montgomery College early Friday morning. Her car was cut in half by the impact and she was delcared dead at the scene.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper James Gonzales of Hempstead told Examiner reporters that Pittman was traveling eastbound on S.H. 105, when the 1997 Ford Escort she was driving veered slightly off the roadway and lost control of the vehicle for an unknown reason.

The Escort went into a sideways skid and ended up in the westbound lane, where it was struck on the right side by the oncoming W W Webber truck driven by Alfredo Carraman of Houston, 58. The car was cut in half as its back half was dragged underneath the one-ton that landed in a ditch on the north side of the roadway.

Michelin Does Not Support a New Tire Tread Standard

Friday, March 21st, 2008

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is researching the benefits of establishing a new standard for tire tread depth. 

Currently, the federal government requires that a “wear bar” is built into a tire by the manufacture. This is done at the depth of 2/32 inches. Minimum tread standards are regulated by state and 37 states have minimum tread standards of 2/32 inches. 

The NHTSA is looking into changing the minimum standard to 4/32 inches. This is supposed to increase breaking distance on wet surfaces and may help prevent injuries and fatalities in car wrecks. If a new minimum standard is established, tires will be taken out of circulation once the tread reaches 4/32 inches instead of 2/32 inches.  

The COO of Michelin Americas Research Co., Dave Stafford, has stated that Michelin does not support a new NHTSA standard because of the influx of tires that would be needed in order to maintain the standard. In the

United States, at least an additional 65 million tires would be required annually.

Stafford has stated that a higher demand for tires would have a negative impact on the environment. 

NTHSA reported in 2001 that at least 9% of vehicles on the road had tires below the federal standard of 2/32 inches. 

Serious injuries and fatalities occur every day from car wrecks caused by tire blowouts. Car wreck attorneys are working on cases involving tire defects.