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Texas continues to rank among the national leaders in pedestrian deaths.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 5,977 pedestrians in were killed nationally in traffic accidents in 2017. In Texas, 607 pedestrians died in 2017, or 16.3 percent of all traffic fatalities in the state that year. Only California and Florida had more.
Car crashes are a common cause for severe injuries. If you are involved in a car crash, the first thing you should do is to check if you or anyone else involved in the crash is injured. If someone is injured you should call 911 immediately and request an ambulance.
A spinal cord injury is one of the most severe types of injury that can be caused by a car crash. Because spinal cord injuries can become worse when not recognized right away, it is especially important to understand the signs of this injury.
Whether it be that Texas is just a very big state that can take a long time to drive through or because the people of Texas are just very hard-working, the state ranks at the top of the list in the country for drowsy drivers.
Statistics show that Texas drivers who were driving drowsy or fell asleep at the wheel accounted for 9,704 accidents in 2017. That breaks down to an average of 26 crashes each day. Out of those crashes, there were 160 fatalities.
In 2016, almost 3,500 people were killed because of distracted driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also notes that teens are more often to blame for distracted driving than other age groups.
While many campaigns to end distracted driving focus on cell phone use, an AAA study indicates that cell phones are not the only distractions for teen drivers. Attending to something in the vehicle or attending to passengers were also popular distractions.
You know your time on Earth is limited to an unknown amount of years, months, weeks and days. One of the best ways to ensure you are being responsible with your time and investments is developing an estate plan. Having a will is an important part of estate planning.
Creating a will at one point in your life may require updates and changes as circumstances in your life shift. For example, not all states have the exact same laws surrounding wills. When you move from one state to the next, you will want to make sure your will and how it is setup is valid in your new state. Invalid wills can cause problems when they are not resolved afterwards.
The outside world is in constant motion, and it can seem difficult to keep track of everything you encounter while driving. However, it is vital that drivers remain aware of their surroundings at all times, otherwise, the likelihood of a serious crash greatly increases.
Statistically, drivers repeatedly struggle to notice bicyclists and pedestrians. The number of pedestrians killed in traffic deaths across the United States has increased faster than the rate of all other traffic deaths in recent years. From 2007 to 2016, pedestrian fatalities increased 27 percent. The numbers have been grim for bicyclists too, as there were 840 bicyclist deaths nationally in 2016, an increase from the year before.
As this blog has discussed before, in the event of a divorce, a married couple's property will have to be divided according to the community property laws in force in Texas.
What this means is that a resident of the Killeen and Fort Hood area is going to have to live with the reality that they will be dealing with some financial challenges after a divorce since they will have about half of their assets. They will also be without the benefit of their spouse's income or other financial support, and they may be making alimony and child support payments.
With new communities and roadways seemingly popping up around every corner throughout Texas and across America, road construction is a constant presence, but road construction zones present a considerable threat for motorists. In fact, the number of car crashes occurring in the nation’s construction zones is on the rise, and as a result, so, too, is the number of injuries people suffer while navigating their way through them.
Per the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, the number of car crashes that took place in the country’s work zones rose substantially between 2013 and 2015, with the number of construction zone crashes increasing more than 40 percent during that time period. Additionally, in 2015, at least 70 work zone crashes resulting in injury occurred every day on the nation’s roads, while 12 work zone crashes every week ended in at least one fatality.
Like other states, Texas takes domestic violence seriously on multiple levels. For instance, in addition to criminal charges, Texas family law judges have the authority to restrict custody, that is conservatorship, and visitation upon hearing credible evidence that domestic violence has occurred. This is true even if there has been no criminal charge against the suspect.
Basically, a judge can consider a pattern of domestic violence in her custody decisions, as well as specific incidents during the course of the divorce or custody case and the two years prior. Under the right circumstances, the law will require the judge to award conservatorship to the victim, not the perpetrator of the violence, unless the perpetrator can affirmatively show that he or she is still the best custodian for the children.
The holidays are a time for family. However, this can get a bit tricky when a child has parents in two different households.
Being able to properly co-parent after a divorce is essential, and navigating the holidays correctly can be very important. Here are a few tips that may aid in making a child's holidays as enjoyable as possible.
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TX
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