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ts tht Houston
ods s
68,682 c
shes in 2019
lone. Tht’s f
mo
e thn
ny otheTex
s city in the study. (unne
s upe
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ntonioith 42,786 c
ccidentsnd D
lls
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th, tht me
ns 188 cccidents h
ppen in Houston ped
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n futhe
be
k don the ye
’s tot
l numbeof c
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t
l c
shes,
esulting in 253 deths
- i
-level="1">1,200 suspected se
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shes
ith 1,392 suspected seious inju
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- i
-level="1">5,357 non-inc
p
citting c
shes
- i
-level="1">15,329 possible inju
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shes
- i
-level="1">43,328 non-inju
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shes
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n seve
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line ofo
k,e unde
stnd th
t evenhen c
shes
e cl
ssifieds “non-inju
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iously disupt
victim’s life.h
t e some of the cuses of these
ccidents,nd
ht c
n you do if you find youself involved in one?
ed on to discove
thens
es eve
y Houston dive
needs to kno.
Ho m
ny c
s d
ive in Houston evey d
y? Is Houston tffic bd?
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Houston tffic is no joke. The city’s spling size combined
ith its limited public tnspot
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hd the thi
d lgest popultion g
oth in the count
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e e the most populted city in Tex
s. Nely 7 millionesidents c
ll Houston home,nd m
ny of them hve long commutes. This me
ns tons ofutomobiles
e on the
ods fo
hous e
ch dy, sometimes in bumpe
-to-bumpet
ffic.
Most D nge
ous
ods in Houston
Busy city st
eets men mo
e chnces fo
ccidents.
ccoding <
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te.tx.uspub/txdot-info/t
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s Deptment of Tnspot
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th
oughout Texs 75% of
llccidents occu
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bn
e
shile only 25% of
ccidents occued inu
l
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s. <h
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m-to-m
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ough ub
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ve the highest incidence ofccidents. FM 1960
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dy
nd seesbout
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ye.ecently, tech comp
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fom c
mes in Houston vehicles. Theifindings
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ngeous
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ccidents in Houston hppened on F
idy mo
nings beteen 9
Mnd noon.
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themo
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nge
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ns the S
m Houston Fee
y, st
etches 88 miles ound the Houston e. Its inte
sections e the sites of numeous
ccidents. In fct, d
tf
om the TxDOT suggests the intesection of S
m Houston Fee
y
nd Bissonnet Steet is the most d
ngeous inte
section in the stte of Tex
s.h
t cuses Houston c
ccidents?<h2>
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t
tion compiles dt
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sh cont
ibuting fcto
s<>. Lst ye
, the top t
o cuses of Tex
s cccidents
ee listed
s speedingnd pl
in ol' "dive
inttention.”
ell m
ke mistkes.
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l t
nspo
ttion
uthoities, <
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uses most tffic collisions<>. Evey ye
,
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dly tuck
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ctos >.
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vios like
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m’s
y eve
y dy in Houston.
Othe
common contibuting f
ctos in TxDOT’s
epot included m
king unsfe l
ne chnges, f
iling to yield, tilg
ting,unning stop signs o
ed lights,
nd encounteing
nimls in the
od.
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e some othecommon c
uses of cccidents
e’ve encounteed he
e in Houstons
e help injued victims n
vigte thei
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iving Unde
the Influence<h2>
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lcohol<> plys
pt in mny c
c
shes. L
st ye thee
ee 2,436 <
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shes >,
esulting in 73 f
tlities.
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l Vehicles
6,369 <
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ccidents in His County > involved comme
ci
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ucks<>. The mssive size of t
ucks like these mkes them un
ieldynd h
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cs shing theo
dith them. To
dd to the poblem, m
ny commeci
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uck dive
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impope
ly tined. They my be speeding to meet
dedline o
distcted bye
outing theiGPS.
dditionlly, comme
cil vehicles
equie
outine minten
nce. Idelly, they should be inspected befo
end
fteeve
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ke. If this minten
nce is neglected,f
ultyuto p
t could c
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ccident on theo
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outs e one common cuse of semi t
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ito s
y Houstonesidents
e
ell-cqu
intedith const
uction zones. Oucity seems to be
n eten
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k in pog
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o
d closues c
n heighten tensions on theo
dnd le
d to cccidents. L
st ye, His County h
d 2,756 <h
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shes in
ok zones >,
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t Bend County hd 738.
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