The rising rate of Texas traffic fatalities involving three or more deaths is alarming: 72 such accidents in 2010; 101 in 2012 and 148 last year, according to an in-depth report by the Houston Chronicle. Through mid-July of this year, the newspaper said 81 people had died in triple tragedies on Texas highways, and it...

September 8, 2014 - RHOME, TEXAS - A 50-year-old Rhome, Texas woman was killed in a four-vehicle accident that closed State Highway 114 for several hours Monday night, according to Texas Department of Public Safety officials. Jamie Richardson was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident in the 15900 block of State Highway 114...

September 4, 2014 - NORTH OF BARNHART, TEXAS -Two drivers were killed and one passenger was flown to a hospital Thursday morning in a collision north of Barnhart on State Highway 163, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Shawn Baxter said.  DPS identified the drivers as Gary Wayne Maher, 56, of San Angelo, and Kelly...

September 6, 2014 - NEAR HARTLEY, TEXAS - Officials said a 29-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle accident just east of Hartley on Friday afternoon.  A tractor-trailer was eastbound on U.S. Highway 287 about 3:35 p.m. when the driver lost control, crossed the center stripe and slammed into the left back quarter panel of...

AUGUST 29, 2014 - SAN ANGELO, Texas - A South Texas man was identified as the driver killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Irion County. Rafael Miranda Jr., 24, of Hidalgo, about 460 miles south of San Angelo, was pronounced dead at the scene by Irion County Justice of the Peace Donna Smith,...