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The article reports on the fire incident to a truck use for oil distribution at the Hanson's Aggregates Asphalt plant in Burnet, Texas on September 28, 2016.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience in rescuing a family who experienced a truck accident in Burnet, Texas.

The article reports that federal investigators of at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board still unable to interview Dale Andrew Hayden, the driver of the truck carrying wounded veterans struck by a train at a parade in Midland, Texas in November 2012. It states that Hayden tried to cross the tracks as a Union Pacific freight train approached to it. Moreover, the truck is found to be owned by Smith Industries Inc.

The article focuses on the investigation by the federal officials on November 17, 2012 of the collision of a train and a truck that killed four people at a parade. The result of the indicates that the vehicle carrying veterans and their spouses tried to cross the tracks seconds after the bells-and-lights warning of the railroad crossing was activated. According to Mark R. Rosekind, the video and mechanical train data from the accident were examined by the investigators.

The article reports on the road accident happened in Midland, Texas wherein a Union Pacific freight train travelling towards Louisiana and another truck collided. It states that the accidents resulted to the death of four Army and Marine veterans, and injuries to 16 veterans and civilians who participated in a Show of Support parade. Moreover, it mentions the investigations of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board officials on the said accident.

The death toll climbed from 14 to 15 on Tuesday in the crash of a truck that was carrying nearly two dozen illegal immigrants in rural South Texas, investigators said. The truck, an extended-cab pickup crammed with 23 men, women and children from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, veered off U.S. Highway 59 near Goliad on Sunday and struck two trees. Eight survivors remain in hospitals. The youngest victim was a girl about 8 years old. The authorities were still trying to determine the identities of most of the victims. The driver, Ricardo Mendoza Pineda of Mexico, was among those killed. The Texas Department of Public Safety said investigators believed that the primary cause was a faulty front tire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A pickup truck crammed with suspected illegal immigrants collided with an sport utility vehicle near the Mexican border, killing three people and injuring 14. The police said there were at least 20 people in the truck when it crashed before dawn on U.S. 83, the main east-west artery along the border in the Rio Grande Valley. A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Nina Pruneda, said three illegal immigrants were in custody. Ms. Pruneda said 14 others were being treated for a variety of head and back injuries in five hospitals; one was believed to be paralyzed. Most of those found are believed to be Mexican nationals. Ms. Pruneda said all were men except for one woman and a 15-year-old boy, who had extensive internal injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]