Dallas Fort Worth Car Accident Lawyer Blog

Tonight is the big final. The NCAA March Madness Championship Game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Michigan Wolverines.

The March Madness tournament is often unpredictable, but this year seems to have been even more surprising than usual. That said, it looks like the outcome of our law firm's bracket contest is going to come down to a tiebreaker situation tonight to determine our top three winners - all of whom get their choice of a Kindle Fire, Nordstrom gift card, or one night stay in a local luxury hotel.

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If you have never been seriously injured in an accident before and so never had to consider making hiring a Fort Worth personal injury lawyer to make an insurance claim, you probably have some misconceptions about how the process works and what your legal rights are. Don't worry, you're not alone.

I've addressed some of these myths in the past. For example, making a personal injury claim will not make you rich. A lot of people believe that getting injured in a Fort Worth car wreck and making a PI claim is a profitable get rich quick scheme. That is completely untrue.

Here are some other commonly held misconceptions:

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Yesterday, I wrote about several Tarrant County drunk driving accidents which occurred over the Easter weekend. One of the wrecks, which took place at approximately 2:30 am on Saturday morning on Rendon Crowley Road in Fort Worth, resulted in the death of the passenger and the arrest of the driver of the pickup truck involved in a single-vehicle collision.

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Today is April 1st, which means (in case you've forgotten) that it's April Fool's Day. I'll admit it, I've already fallen prey to one prank: Richard Branson's announcement that Virgin was going to start rolling out glass-bottom planes across their various airlines.

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Apparently auto makers are starting to realize that the wealth of new technology available to high-end passenger cars has a negative effect on public safety, as they give drivers even more ways to distract themselves from the road ahead and the actual task of safely operating their vehicle.

Fortunately, then, it seems that starting with many 2014 model year cars, highly distracting tech such as touch-screen monitors are being phased out in favor of controls located either on the steering wheel or next to the gear stick.

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Drunk drivers are idiots. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

On Sunday, one such idiot crashed his SUV into a stationary Fort Worth patrol vehicle and was promptly arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Fortunately, the police officer suffered only slight injuries in the rear-impact crash. The DWI collision occurred at approximately 3:30am on Sunday morning near the intersection of Riverside Drive and Arlington Avenue in east Fort Worth.

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If you have been involved in a car wreck in North Texas, there's a chance that you'll need to get a rental car while your vehicle is repaired or while you shop around for a new one. Unfortunately, I've learned that a lot of people who hire a rental vehicle are being ripped off by the rental company - the worst culprit being Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

According to a report published in the Dallas Morning News, lots of customers of Enterprise (which has locations at DFW airport and throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex) are being told that they are responsible for damage to the rental vehicles - often months after they actually used the vehicle.

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Several months ago, TxDOT started broadcasting the latest fatal accident statistics on electronic message boards on roads throughout Texas for one week each month. Although everyone probably noticed them initially, I'll bet that most people now automatically ignore them - just like you do with billboards.

However, as a Dallas-Fort Worth car wreck attorney, I think it's important to understand just how significant an issue traffic collisions are. Although the official detailed TxDOT accident statistics report for 2012 is still months away from release, here are the broad numbers of motor vehicle traffic crashes throughout the state of Texas last year:

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The month of March is most famous for basketball, but March 2013 is also Brain Injury Awareness Month. As a Texas personal injury lawyer, I know that the effect of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have a devastating effect on an accident victim and their family members.

In fact, a recent study has found that serious brain injury can be even more common that most people realize. A study published in the medical journal Radiology has found that permanent brain damage can occur as a result of a single concussion as a result of structural changes to the brain caused by head trauma. However, in many cases the symptom of this brain damage is not evident until long after the fact.

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Thoughts about the car wreck which injured several spectators at the Nationwide Series race a couple of weeks ago...

It was the day before the Daytona 500. Nationwide Series race leader Regan Smith tried to block Brad Keselowski, triggering a chain reaction pile up which culminated in Kyle Larson's vehicle being launched into the air and crashing into the fence just feet from spectators.

Larson's car visibly disintegrated upon impact, and many of the NASCAR fans in attendance were showered with debris from the car. Early reports suggested that many fans were hospitalized after the collision, with at least 33 individuals injured.

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As a Dallas-Fort Worth personal injury lawyer, I know that there are a number of factors which could contribute to a serious traffic collision occurring. They range from the seemingly benign (talking to your kids) to the obviously dangerous (drunk driving). However, over the past couple of weeks a number of pseudo-studies have emerged which suggests that the type of music you listen to could dramatically alter your driving habits - and your risk of an accident.

While I strongly emphasize that these "findings" are in no way scientifically-based, I thought it would be interesting to see whether or not you agree with these lists - or if not, what songs you would nominate instead:

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Several weeks ago, a Subway customer posted a photo on the fast food chain's Facebook page showing that their famous footlong sandwich was actually not all that it claimed to be. The image has since gone viral, and subsequently prompted numerous lawsuits against Subway citing deceptive advertising due to the fact that sandwiches sold under the description of being 12 inch long are, in reality, more likely to be just 12 inches long.

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Today was not a very happy Valentine's Day for former Melrose Place actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer as she was sentenced to three years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Locane, who played Sandy Louise Harling in the early 90s soap, was responsible for the death of 60-year-old Helene Seeman in a 2010 accident which occurred in Montgomery Township, NJ.

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Intoxication results in slower brain functions, gives you a false sense of confidence, and severely impairs your ability to judge speed and distance. As such, mixing alcohol with automobiles is always a very bad idea.

A new study, published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information reminds us just how little we truly already know about how drinking alcohol can actually affect us. As it turns out, drinking a mixed beverage with diet soda as opposed to a full-sugar soda can actually make you significantly drunker. In fact, the study found that participants drinking a liquor and diet coke mixed drink had a Breath Alcohol Concentration 18 percent higher than those who had a drink made full full-calorie soda.

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Generally, if someone comes to me for legal advice after a Dallas-Fort Worth auto accident, I tell them that while it is usually very wise to hire a board certified personal injury lawyer to help them with their injury claim, they can usually handle their property damage claim just fine on their own. The reason for this is that the amount of damages are usually much lower in property damage cases than in bodily injury or wrongful death cases.

Usually, but evidently not always. British comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson, best known for playing Mr. Bean, has received a £910,000 payout (roughly $143,000) for repairs to his McLaren F1 supercar which he crashed in August 2011. The settlement has made headlines as it is believed to be one of the biggest auto property damage claims of all time. Atkinson only suffered a shoulder injury in the wreck two years ago.