Traffic Accidents

Charges Against Grand Prairie Teacher Accused of Running over 6-Year-Old Being Dropped -- For Now

Tammy Lowe, a 53-year-old Grand Prairie teacher, surrendered to police in January, five days after she allegedly struck and killed 6-year-old John Raidy in a horrific hit-and-run. She was charged with injury to a child and failure to stop and render aid. Now, those charges are about to be dismissed ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Want a Ban on Texting While Driving. But Do the Bans Even Work?

In Austin yesterday, state lawmakers were joined by Texans whose family members were killed in texting-related car accidents for an emotional press conference in support of a texting-while-driving ban proposed by Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. A nearly identical ... More >>

Police Searched For a Dying Man in Turtle Creek Before Realizing the 911 Call Was a Fake

Just before midnight last night, an Uptown resident received a frantic text message from her friend: He had just been hit by a car and had fallen into Turtle Creek. He didn't think he was going to make it. The friend immediately called police, who dispatched several units to canvass the creek, call ... More >>

Cowboy Jerry Brown Was Sober When He Died in a Car Driven by His Drunk Teammate

The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown's teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had been par ... More >>

Shocking: Study From Guys Who Build Roads Says Texas Must Build More Roads

Bitching about how terrible the roads are in Dallas is a time-honored tradition. It's also easy. Quantifying just how terrible they are? That's more difficult. Luckily for you, TRIP, a D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to transportation research, just released its annual "Future Mobility in Texas" repo ... More >>

Dallas Has Country's 34th Worst Drivers, Which is Ridiculous. We Drive Much Worse Than That.

Every year, Allstate crunches its claims data from the country's 200 largest municipalities, does a little arithmetic, then releases a ranked list showing which cities have the best drivers and, by extension, which have the worse. The insurance company just released its report for 2012, and the answ ... More >>

Watch As DART Bus Plows Into Stopped Cars, Shuts Down Tollway

Remember last week when a bus crash shut down the Dallas North Tollway? Turns out the NTTA has video. Posted it this afternoon. No one died in the crash, so you can enjoy it guilt free.

Pleasant Grove's Bret Egner Needs Your Help With Medical Expenses

On Wednesday, Pleasant Grove singer-guitarist Bret Egner was involved in a bicycle accident near Red River in Austin, when he swerved to avoid two jaywalking pedestrians and hit the pavement. Sadly, the pedestrians he swerved to avoid didn't offer help. Egner went into surgery today to repair a sh ... More >>

Dallas PD Needs Help Finding Driver Who Killed a Man in Cedar Springs Crosswalk Friday

​The Dallas Police report says, simply, "TRAFFIC FATALITY #78." There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it's asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck and killed a 50-ye ... More >>

Sia, Oh Land, Ximena Sarinana

Sunday, August 7, at the Granada Theater

Dallas PD Provides Look at Oak Lawn Armed Robbery Captured by Surveillance Camera

Per the Dallas Police Department, the hold-up you see above was captured three nights ago and just two blocks from Unfair Park headquarters, along the 2700 block of Welborn near Oak Lawn and Maple. You know the drill by now: DPD needs help ID'ing the driver of the car seen above and the man who get ... More >>

Sure, You Can Walk in Dallas. But, According to a New Report, It Can Be Dangerous.

​Dallas is all about the hike-n-bike these days, what with Complete Streets and Better Blocks and Bike Plans and Pedestrian Bridges and whatever else will help us ease on down, ease on down the road. Good thing too, since walking 'round Dallas -- and Fort Worth and Arlington -- can be dangerous. T ... More >>

DART's Back on Track, Mostly, And Dallas PD's Very Happy You Stayed Home Today

Andrea Grimes​Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word: It's back in action! For the most part:DART Rail is resuming and all three lines are operating on 30 minute headways. This will continue for the rest of the day. Buses are operating but slowly due to road conditions. All non-24 hour HOV lanes re ... More >>

A Hunka Burnin' Love for Sushi

​Elvis Tuna Tartare at Shinsei Top Chef contestant Casey Thompson may be gone from Shinsei, but thankfully Elvis is still in the house, rockin' the fresh sushi. Recovered completely from a motorcycle accident, Shuji "Elvis" Sugawara still draws crowds with specialties like his Elvis Tuna Tarta ... More >>

Ernie and Elisa Santos, R.I.P.

​I was supposed to meet Ernie Santos Saturday morning at Twin Peaks in McKinney. I'm digging into an Observer cover story on metroplex motorcycle clubs/gangs and he, being a member of the Dirty Bastards, invited me to a sort of meet 'n greet with his crew. Seems one of their members was rece ... More >>

Ron Kirk Injured in Grand Prairie Car Wreck. And DPS Has Answers About Tollway Crash.

Rock CunananDPS has determined what led to Wednesday morning's crash on the tollway.​Didn't intend to end the day with three (or four, if you will) auto-related items, but that's how we roll:First, this breaking news courtesy KTVT-Channel 11: Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, now President Obama's tra ... More >>

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It Wasn't Easy Writing This Item While Stuck In Traffic. Had Two Accidents.

Allow me to quote from the source material: "In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period." So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.18.09

"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>

Dwayne Goodrich Goes Under ESPN E:60 Microscope

I told the sad saga of former Dallas Cowboy Dwayne Goodrich in an Observer cover story back in December. Something tells me Jeremy Schaap is going to tell it even better tonight. To say I "consulted" ESPN E:60 is probably a little strong, but I did sit down with Schaap and his producer at the B ... More >>

For Seven Years, Dallas Law Firm Faked Car Accidents. Says Judge, Not Cool.

Not every day you get a press release about an law firm being sentenced in federal court. But such a missive just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy the U.S. Attorney's Office concerning yesterday's sentencing of Trey Allen, P.C., the Firm Formerly Known as The Law Office of John H. Allen, I ... More >>

Dale Watson

Friday, January 9, at Pearl Dancehall and Saloon, Fort Worth

MTV, Now Officially the Worst Network in the History of Television

In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier "and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into a bridge support and caught on fire," reported yesterd ... More >>

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