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Safety experts have a new pet peeve related to distracted driving.

In addition to texting or talking on a cell phone while driving, lap dogs and other pets left unrestrained inside moving vehicles pose a major distraction that could be deadly, a study released Wednesday warns.

About two-thirds of dog owners surveyed by the AAA organization said they routinely drive while petting or playing with their dogs, sometimes even giving them food or water while maneuvering through traffic.

It’s frisky behavior for the driver and dangerous for the pets too.

An 80-pound dog unrestrained during a crash at 30 mph exerts 2,400 pounds of force in a vehicle, creating a danger for the dog and anyone in its path, according to Motivation Design LLC, a company that manufactures pet travel products, including restraint systems for pets.

Fifty-five percent of 1,000 dog-owning drivers polled by AAA said they have pet their dog while driving, and 21 percent said they held the dog in their lap. Seven percent said they have given food and water to their dog while driving, and 5 percent said they have played with their dog while behind the steering wheel.

While 80 percent of poll respondents said they take their dogs on a variety of car trips, only 17 percent said they use a pet-restraint system to limit distractions and protect their pet.

“As about 40 percent of Americans own dogs, we see this as an increasingly big problem,” said Beth Mosher, spokeswoman for AAA of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.

Two people died and forty people were injured when a tour bus en route to Matamoros, Mexico from San Antonio, Texas flipped onto its side Tuesday.

The Americanos USA bus left San Antonio with 42 people on board headed for the border city of Matamoros.  About 45 miles outside of San Antonio, on Interstate 37, the bus veered from the right lane, spun around, and landed on its right side about 10:00 a.m.

Two passengers remained in critical condition late Tuesday, one at University Hospital and another at Wilford Hall Medical Center, both in San Antonio.  Thirteen others hospitalized there and Brooke Army Medical Center were in stable condition.

A male and female passenger were killed but their names were not released.

It had rained overnight and early Tuesday, but investigators were unsure if weather factored into the wreck.  There was no initial indication the driver, 47-year-old Irma Morado, was impaired.  Investigators suspect equipment failure, though the tires appeared to be intact.

Americanos USA is a subsidiary of Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. and has a good federal safety record.

Three people died when a pickup ran a red light and slammed into a car at an intersection Friday, morning, police said.

The crash happened about 10 a.m. Friday in Conroe. Conroe police Sgt. Bob Berry says witnesses reported seeing the truck moving quickly in and out of traffic before slamming into the car, killing all three people in it.

Police identified the victims as Craig Rector, 50, Freedom Fitch, 24, and Felicia Hicks, 20. The pickup’s driver, Casey McKinley, 18, was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on three counts of vehicular manslaughter, authorities said.

A death row inmate freed after an appeals court overturned his capital murder conviction has died in an East Texas pickup wreck.

Michael Roy Toney, 43, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in Cherokee County when his truck veered off FM 347 and overturned. He was ejected and crushed, the Department of Public Safety said.

Toney had spent nearly 10 years on death row in the 1985 bombing deaths of three people in a Lake Worth trailer. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in December that the prosecutor withheld evidence that might have helped Toney at his 1999 trial.

A pregnant Elgin woman and her unborn child were killed in a head-on collision late Friday, according to Texas Department of Public Safety officials.

Lisa Page, 35, was driving west on FM 969 about 11:15 Am. when her vehicle collided with one driven by Rex Easley, 17, of Manor, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report. Page, who was six months pregnant, died at the scene.

Easley sustained two broken legs and was hospitalized in serious condition.

Two passengers in Page’s vehicle were injured an 18-year-old woman who was transported to a hospital in critical condition and a 1-year-old boy who was in stable condition.

Neither driver was wearing a seatbelt, but the other passengers were, according to the report.

Department of Public Safety officials are investigating the crash.

Austin police have filed murder charges against a 23-year-old man in connection with a fatal collision Monday at Airport Boulevard and Bohn Road.

Jaime Bonilla Alvarado could face up to life in prison if convicted on the first-degree felony charges.

Robert Joel Benn, 64, who had come to Austin from Tennessee on business, died after his rental car was struck by a “Lincoln Navigator. Police said officers were attempting to pull over the Navigator on suspicion that the driver was intoxicated, but the driver accelerated and ran a red light, striking Benn’s vehicle.

A wreck that killed two truck drivers and spilled hundreds of gallons of raw sewage onto a Bastrop County highway Wednesday was caused by a tire blowout, officials said Thursday.

Department of Public Safety officials said that George Center, 37, of Austin was driving a UPS truck south on Texas 95 and that Larry Goodwill, 52, of Bastrop was driving a sewage truck north at 4:45 p.m. about four miles south of Elgin. A tire blew out on the front passenger side of the UPS truck, causing Center to lose control and enter the northbound lane, where the two trucks hit head-on, killing both men.

Raw sewage, oil and fuel spilled onto parts of the two-lane highway, causing it to be shut down for about five hours Wednesday evening.

The wreck damaged up to 3,000 square feet of the highway and surrounding area, said John Hurt, a spokesman with the Combined Transportation Emergency and Communications Center in Austin. He said that about 300 gallons of raw sewage was spilled. Some liquid quickly soaked into the ground, he said, but a residue that remained on the ground should be cleaned up by today. Hurt said UPS could be responsible for the cleanup cost, which has not been estimated because officials have not finished investigating the damaged area.

Center had been a fill-in UPS driver for about four years, said Susan Rosenberg, a company spokeswoman. She said the delivery company has begun its own investigation into the wreck.  “Certainly it is a loss to the UPS family, and we have made outreach to his family,” Rosenberg said.

Goodwill owned Larry’s Septic Tank Service and also was the volunteer pastor at Church of the Risen Savior in Bastrop, said his daughter, Wendy Goodwill Christian.  She said he was married for 33 years and known for his hard work and integrity.

A man and two of his children were killed Saturday in a crash on Texas 71 near Spicewood, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

Two other children were taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin.  Their conditions were not available.

Authorities said Russell Rutland, 37, was driving a 2005 Nissan Altima east on the highway when a 2007 Dodge pickup heading west crossed a double yellow line and struck the Nissan.

Rutland, his daughter Madison Rutland, 4, and son Hunter Rutland, 9, were killed in the crash.

The driver of the Dodge was taken to Seton Highland Lakes hospital in Burnet.  hisc condition was not available.

From the Austin American-Statesman.

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A man was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision on Monday on Texas 195 about a half mile north of Florence, said Tom Vinger, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Rodrigo Enriquez, 47, of Killeen died in the 5:30 a.m. crash on the two-lane road, Vinger said.

Louis Hirsh, a 21-year-old soldier from Hutton, was driving a Honda Accord north on Texas 195 when it crossed the center line and hit the Chevrolet Prism that Enriquez was driving.

Hirsch was injured in the crash as were Enriquez’s passengers Vladimiro Alvarado, 46, and Junior Alvarado, 23.

Here is a new Post at Drunk Driver Crash Head On.

A stupid ass drunk driver crashes head on into this car. Crazy video.

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Here is the Spanish translation of Post summary:-

Un estúpido trasero conductor ebrio se estrella en la cabeza en este coche. Crazy video.

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How much more likely is a drunk driver to crash than a sober driver?

between 40%-80% depending on how drunk! Every one reacts different to alcohol.

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