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Texas is one of many states found to have a high incident of rollover truck accidents. New Research from the American Transportation Research Institute has produced a database of locations with the highest frequency of large truck rollovers by using more than 50,000 crash records from a nine-year period (from 2001-2009). The database covers 31 states part of a three-part research effort aimed at mitigating costly large truck rollovers, covers 31 states.

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SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — Over 61 Burke County students were shaken up on Saturday, May 19, after a chain reaction involving six buses full of children headed for a Six Flags amusement park outside Atlanta crashed, officials told reporters.

Over 50 people were injured in a multiple school bus accident in Social Circle, GA on I-20 East of Covington and just west of the Georgia Highway 11 on May 19, 2012.

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HOUSTON, TX — According to Houston TranStar officials, a two-vehicle accident involving a semi truck and passenger vehicle occurred on Friday morning, May 11, at about 9 a.m. on the northbound Southwest Freeway near the South Freeway.

A semi truck crashed with another car on the northbound Southwest Freeway (U.S. 59) near the South Freeway (Texas 288) on Friday, May 11, 2012 in Houston, TX overturning and spilling a load of flour and injuring the driver of the car.

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HOUSTON – An 18 wheeler accident occurred on Wednesday, May 9, when a semi truck carrying an unsecured load overturned on the East Loop in Houston, Texas.

Photo shows overturned big rig in Houston truck accident on East Loop on May 9, 2012

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MADISONVILLE, Texas — Twelve students traveling to Odessa on an Ector County Independent School District bus were injured when a single fire engine crashed into them after police directed the bus to change lanes due to a large grass fire in the area.

Photo Credit: KBTX

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FORT WORTH, TX –  Louis Nieves was sentenced by a Fort Worth jury of intoxication manslaughter in the death of a semi truck driver who was killed on March 2011 when his tanker truck exploded in a fatal wreck east of downtown Fort Worth.

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SEQUIN, TX – A four vehicle accident involving an 18 wheeler, a school bus with 10 people on board and two other vehicles sent 9 students and the driver of the 18 wheeler to the hospital.

Photo shows fiery crash on State Highway 123 involving a semi truck, a school bus carrying and two other vehicles in Seguin, TX on Friday, April 27, 2012.

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FMCSA changed its mind and said it was withdrawing the proposed regulatory guidance for obstructive sleep apnea and request for comment that it announced on Friday, April 20.

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HOUSTON, TX — The driver of a heavy duty truck was removed from his vehicle by a fire department heavy rescue team and taken to Houston Northwest Medical Center in stable condition after an accident with two 18-wheeler trucks in northwest Harris County.

The driver of a heavy duty flatbed truck was rescued in Houston, TX after crashing into a stopped semi truck on April 13, 2012. Photo credit: KRIV-TV

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HALTOM CITY, TX — A semi truck carrying produce and traveling westbound on Northeast Loop 820, veered off the highway and into a creek bed Tuesday morning, April 17, causing the driver of the truck to suffer minor injuries, according to officials.

A semi truck lies on its side after plunging over a bridge and then down an embankment on the westbound I-820 in Haltom City, TX on April 17, 2012. Photo credit: Ron Jenkins/Star-Telegram

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