Houston Personal Injury Attorneys – Smith & Hassler

Monday January 17, 2011: Hazmat crews had a busy morning in a Southwest Houston neighborhood cleaning up after an 18-wheeler wreck caused a fuel spill.  According to police the truck  accident happened on East Anderson Road at Milan Drive. The trucks back tire slipped into a ditch causing the entire big rig to tip over. Houston firefighters said that the liquid the 18-wheeler was transporting was non-hazardous, but they were called out because the truck’s fuel tank started leaking. Fortunately the truck driver did not suffer any injuries and the big rig was towed away by 6:00 AM. Houston’s News Channel 2 has a written report of the incident here, video footage here and pictures of the wrecked 18-wheeler here.

Click here to watch a video of a rear-end collision between two cars on a Chinese freeway.  The video footage shows the collision as it happens from inside the vehicle that hit the car in front.  What’s interesting about this footage is that even though the impact looked to be quite hard (certainly the kind of impact that could cause injury to the unwary occupants of the front vehicle), there was not much visible damage to the rear of the front car. Injuries resulting from collisions that did not cause much damage to the vehicle are often the hardest claims to resolve outside of a lawsuit.  Insurance companies have convinced themselves that nobody can be hurt in collisions that involve minor property damage.