Houston Personal Injury Law Blog

In Texas, if someone causes an accident, they are expected to stop, report the accident to police and try to lend a hand if possible. It is the least one can do if his or her reckless actions caused injuries or deaths. A Houston man's problems will only get worse after he fled the scene of a car accident that he caused.

The 29-year-old man admitted after being apprehended to striking a mother who was holding onto her daughter in the late-January accident. He has been charged with failure to stop and render aid, a felony that can lead to two to 10 years in prison.

While there were no fatalities, two Texas teenagers were injured when a target shooter recklessly shot toward the direction of the school the two teens were outside of. The 36-year-old man was arraigned earlier this month on a charge of aggravated assault, after one of the students was left paralyzed from the waist down after sustaining a spinal cord injury.

The 14-year-old male student who was shot was able to have the bullet extracted, but the 13-year-old teen was left paralyzed. The two students were outside their rural school, trying out for the basketball team at the time of the incident.

A 20-year-old Houston man is charged with intoxication manslaughter after he struck a father who was riding in a motorized scooter with his 1-year-old son in his lap. Police don't think that the driver was speeding, but the force of the crash was enough to throw the scooter operator and his son more than 20 feet. It illustrates the extra caution that drivers must take when they are around pedestrians, scooters, bicycles or motorcycles.

According to police, the 56-year-old man drove his scooter off the sidewalk in the afternoon earlier this week when the way was blocked up ahead. He drove his scooter into the right lane of West Montgomery Road, and the 20-year-old man said he didn't see the scooter until it was too late.

A fatal car accident in the Houston area has left one standout high school athlete dead and another possibly liable for a wrongful death. Details on the crash are scarce so far, but the student who survived the single-car accident was driving at the time. The crash is another reminder that car accidents can happen at any time if drivers are not adequately prepared for them.

The victim, a junior at Cinco Ranch High School, which is just outside of Houston in Katy, Texas, was riding with a teammate at about 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 when the accident occurred.