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Baytown ExxonMobil Chemical Plant Hit by Explosion, Fire A fire at the ExxonMobil Olefins Plant in Baytown, Texas, has led to an evacuation of workers from the facility and a “precautionary shelter-in-place” order affecting areas adjacent to the facility.  The fire, which appears to involve a single “tower” at the plant, is producing a cloud of thick black smoke that is being dispersed by light winds after rising several hundred feet into the air. According to local emergency responders, the…

Construction Accident Near Downtown Houston Sends Nine to Local Hospitals According to the Houston (TX) Fire Department and local news media sources, an accident at a downtown Houston construction site has sent at least 9 workers to local hospitals and caused minor injuries to an unknown number of others present at the site. Early reports state the accident occurred a few blocks north of Downtown Houston at the site of a hotel under construction on the 3400 block of North…

Tesla Model S Involved in Fatal South Florida Crash 22-year-old woman killed after Tesla Model S ran stop sign, collided with parked vehicle For the second time in three months, a vehicle made by Tesla Motors has been involved in a fatal traffic accident. In this post, the automobile accident injury lawyer at The Doan Law Firm will report on the circumstances of the latest crash before discussing the possibility that recent accident investigations suggest that Tesla’s highly-touted “Autopilot” driver…

Houston police were investigating a fatal traffic accident that occurred at 5200 Katy Freeway, also known as West Interstate Highway 10, on the service road early in the morning last month. Two victims were in a gold Chevrolet pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed in the eastbound lanes of the Katy Freeway, when their truck veered across two lanes, across the right shoulder and then up into a grassy area surrounding an entrance ramp from the feeder…

Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in a fatal traffic accident in the 9400 block of Westheimer early last month. The suspect, Miguel A. Zepeta-Rodriguez, 20, is charged with criminally negligent homicide in State District Court, accused in the death of Yolanda Lopez Martinez, 54, of Houston. Zepeta-Rodriguez was driving a gray Ford Explorer westbound on Westheimer and approaching Westerland when his vehicle suddenly crossed the center median. The Ford then struck a maroon Plymouth Voyager, driven by…