Reasons For Taking The Texas Defensive Driving Course
Based on official Texas government sources including the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), here is an overview of the reasons and benefits of taking Texas state-approved defensive driving courses for traffic violations such as speeding, wrongful turns, and other non-criminal traffic violations: Reasons for Taking Texas Defensive Driving Courses Benefits of Taking the Course Additional Information Most people in Texas don’t know that there is a Texas DPS Education & Awareness division. From its website page: Welcome to the Texas Highway Patrol Education and Awareness page. Our goal is to educate our citizens and visitors on crime prevention and to gain voluntary compliance with traffic laws. By educating the public, we hope to reduce crime and to reduce the number of injury causing crashes on Texas Highways. — read the full page here This portion of the Texas DPS website goes…
Videos This Week About Speeding And Accidents In Texas September 12 2025
Here are news clip videos this week about driving and speeding related topics across Texas. City council members in Abilene (Jones County and Taylor County) are changing the speed limit for a road now deemed to be unsafe: Man arrested by police in White Settlement (Tarrant County) for sleeping after going down the wrong way on a highway: Fox 4 Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas County) had a news clip about the State cracking down on truck drivers who can’t speak English: NBC DFW news clip about police pulling over drivers with expired or fraudulent paper tags. Back in July the new law took effect making car dealers issue metal temporary license plates. Here is the link to the announcement from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT out of Austin / Travis County): https://www.txdmv.gov/dealers/HB718
Videos This Week About Speeding And Accidents In Texas September 4 2025
Here are videos from the past week about various accidents and speeding-related news across Texas: This video from KVUE shows a semi-trailer hitting an overhead bridge in Georgetown (Williamson County): This video from WFAA shows a fatal accident which occurred in Tarrant County: This news about action facing a trucking company is tied to a crash in Terrell (Kaufman County): This news clip from CBS19 covers a crash leading out of Longview (Gregg County): This clip from KSAT 12 discusses a car hitting a power line in San Antonio (Bexar County): This video discusses the high number of automobile crashes in the San Angelo (Tom Green County) area this past August: