Insights

A single-vehicle wreck late Monday killed a North Texas teenager and injured 2 others. At about 11 p.m. on northbound Farm Road 51, near the Springtown city limits, 17-year-old Paige Davila was speeding when her vehicle left the roadway and hit a speed limit sign. The Paradise teenager then overcorrected, shoving her vehicle across the roadway and through a fence, striking a pole and finally bringing the vehicle to a complete stop, said the Springtown Police Chief Ed Crowdis. Davila died as a result of the accident while her two passengers, Christian Gomez of Decatur and Paige Harkings, both 18-years…

Read More

The names of the victims of Saturday night’s three-vehicle wreck in Centerville have been released. Charles Thomas Brown, 72, of Centerville was driving in Highway 7 east of Centerville when he sideswiped an SUV and another vehicle. Brown dies after the crash while the five people on board the SUV were all taken to East Texas Medical Center in Crockett. - Maria Delourdes Najera, 43 (suffered head trauma; last listed in fair condition) - Hipolito Delgado Najera, 45 (condition unknown) - Danny Najera, 14 (condition unknown) - Alessandra Najera, 8 (stable condition) - Natalia Mendez, 10 (condition unknown) The third…

Read More

Two men were killed in a construction accident in Dallas this weekend. Construction workers Thomas Fairbrother and Terry Weaver, both from Austin, were on top of a crane as it was being removed from a building under construction on the Dallas campus of the University of Texas. Witnesses say the crane buckled under extremely high winds. Thomas Fairbrother is described by family members as a devout Catholic who was extremely passionate about his job. No official cause of the collapse has been determined. O.S.H.A. is investigating. Original story: http://www.kvue.com/news/local/One-of-two-workers-killed-in-a-Dallas-construction-accident-identified-as-Austin-man-161872035.html

Read More

Rad Law Firm, Abogados de Accidentes y Lesiones appears now in Al Dia TX newspaper. We run our first ad on Saturday July 7 2012.

Read More

A Border Patrol agent has given his life while serving in the line of duty after an ATV crash early Friday. According to the report by El Paso Times, 29-year-old Agent Leopoldo Cavazos Jr. was on patrol near Fort Hancock when the accident occurred. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in El Paso, which is about 40 miles west of Fort Hancock. All-terrain vehicles are regularly used by the agency for patrolling the desert and other areas difficult to access in a standard vehicle. Border Patrol officials said they cannot release anymore information since the…

Read More

Family and friends were grieving Sunday night after a tragic accident on the Fred Hartman Bridge killed a mother and two children and injured her teenage son. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, it happened around 10pm Saturday on the bridge between La Porte and Baytown. Officials said Petra Morales was driving a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier northbound on Highway 146 when it stalled in the center lane. Her 15-year-old son got out and began pushing the car to the side of the road. Suddenly, they were struck by a 2006 Chevrolet 3500 truck. The crash killed Morales and…

Read More

The pilot of the two engine plane that crashed early Saturday morning in Harrison County has been identified. The plane piloted by Jerome Jaquin, 52, of Mexico, took off from Dekalb, Illinois and was scheduled to land in Brownsville, Texas. The plane went down sometime overnight due to the storms near Highway 43. The downed plane was found on Saturday around 11 a.m. in a heavily wooded area about 2 miles south of Karnack in Harrison County, according to DPS officials. Harrison County DPS trooper Cedric Grey said, “According to the civil air patrol they said he lost his wings…

Read More

A motorcycle driver died Tuesday night while trying to flee from police. According to department spokesman Joe Harn, a 2002 Honda motorcycle was traveling over 100 mph northbound on Interstate-635 at about 8:40 p.m. A Garland Police Department officer attempted to stop the driver but he exited onto Northwest Highway. The officer then tried to make the traffic stop but the motorcycle driver took off at a high rate of speed, eastbound along Northwest Highway. The driver, 22-year-old Edgar Esparza of Dallas, lost control of his bike when he reached the intersection of Northwest Highway and Centerville Road. The motorcycle…

Read More

A family mourns the death of a young man who was killed in a car crash in Austin this past weekend. A car driven by Madeline Rackle plunged into Lady Bird Lake early Sunday morning. Police officers who saw the crash pulled two young women out of the car, but they couldn’t save Ryan Whittington, 25, who was trapped in the back seat. The driver was charged with intoxication manslaughter. Whittington’s father, Gary, a Corpus Christi native, says he’s not angry at the driver charged with causing the crash. Instead the family is focused on celebrating Whittington’s young life. Just…

Read More

More than a year after ICE Special Agent Jaime J. Zapata was killed and Special Agent Victor Avila injured in an attack by the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico, Zapata’s family and Avila still have critical questions. For starters, they don’t know why the two agents were allowed to travel a highway known to be highly dangerous. Zapata’s parents and Avila’s twin sister made a renewed demand Friday for transparency on the part of U.S. federal agencies regarding the Feb. 15, 2011, attack in the state of San Luis Potosí. “I feel that I owe my son justice,” Zapata’s mother, Mary M.…

Read More