San Antonio Personal Injury Law Blog

While the streets can be hazardous enough, shoppers also have to beware when they leave the store to walk to their cars, as there can be dangers lurking in parking lots. Just as on the road, when drivers in parking lots do not take proper precautions the results can be catastrophic. The parking garage of an exclusive enclosed mall in Texas was the scene of a fatal accident several months ago and is now the mall is a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The lawsuit claims the death of a businessman from another country, as well as the serious injury to his friend,  happened because the mall has done nothing over the years to curb the joyriding in which some drivers engage while in the parking lots and garages. In this particular incident, a 29-year-old man was making a high-speed run from the bottom to the top floors of one of the parking garages and lost control of his car, hitting the two men as they were walking from the mall. The incident happened over six months ago and the survivor remains in the hospital after he fell two stories due to being thrown over the edge. The driver has been charged with aggravated assault and manslaughter and is awaiting trial.

Texas police typically undertake an extensive investigation when a car accident results in a death. A team  usually reconstructs all the facets of a fatal accident, and that information can be used to determine the charges that will be issued. An 18-year-old man was recently charged with criminally negligent homicide after a fatal accident took the lives of two of the passengers who were in his car when it crashed.

According to investigators, the Jan. 2019 wreck happened as the driver and his three friends were headed north on a wet road. The driver was going too fast for the road conditions and the vehicle hydroplaned. It went spinning off the road, across the southbound lanes and slammed into a tree. One friend died at the scene, and another died after being transported to a hospital approximately 30 miles away. The driver was seriously injured but has recovered, and the third passenger was in stable condition after treatment at an area hospital.

Statistics show there are more car accidents on the roads during rush hour, simply because that is the time of day more people are on the road. However, there are many fatal accidents that occur during the nighttime hours, not only from the lack of visibility but also because there are more drunk drivers on the road from 12 a.m. until 4 a.m. A fatal accident during this time period recently took place on a Texas roadway.

The Texas Department of Public Safety reported the accident happened when the driver of a white Range Rover was headed the wrong way on a major state roadway. It collided head-on with a Nissan Altima going south. One of the vehicles caught fire, but the report did not specify which one.

Nearly everyone who has ever driven a vehicle has gone over the posted speed limit. According to various police reports, many of those have driven after consuming alcohol. Mixing the two can often result in a fatal accident, with the consequences of negligence affecting a number of people for years to come. The combination of drinking and driving led to the death of a Texas resident in a recent fatal accident.

The driver and his female passenger were traveling on a freeway sometime around midnight, going well over the speed limit, according to a police report. The car hit a barrier along the road, killing the passenger upon impact. Neither occupant was wearing a seat belt.